Today we wake up unusually early to go to the Flora Expo.
But first, we grab something to eat at Ching Guang Market 晴光市場
My power breakfast: spring onion pancake with egg, fried meat buns and hot milk tea
Flora Expo ticket counter
My cousin and tour guide Cherry, Dad, Me, and some random couple
Five million four hundred fifty eight thousand seven hundred sixty four visitors as of
March 3, 2011. Whew.
Even the first aid sign is all hearts and flowers
Wall of flowers
Sea of flowers
They’re so pretty, pretty, pretty.
My favorites are:
Butterfly Orchids Calla Lily
Auntie Babie and Uncle Frankie, hihihi!
That’s my cousin Frances and her funny pose
Uncle Frank at the Xi’an Courtyard
Grass boys playing Chinese chess in the Shanghai Neighborhood
Chinese garden
Dad taking a photo of me on the bridge
Tropical plants in Malaysia
Dolphins in Hong Kong
Flamingos, Frances and I in Hawaii
Canoe and rainbow in Palau
Little lambs in Hungary
Church in the Philippines
(I think ours is the best, don’t you?)
I see people eating
Eating
And eating
So I have to get myself something to eat, too
Glutinous rice dumpling or machang
Meatball soup Fish ball soup
Oil rice Fried shrimp roll
Roast chicken Tea egg
Spicy stinky tofu Steamed radish cake
Almond tea
Frances, Dad, Auntie Babie, Uncle Frank
Other interesting sights at the expo:
EcoARK. Guess what it’s made of.
Plastic bottles!
Another smart way of using plastic bottles
A wall made of recycled materials
That’s the majestic Grand Hotel at the very back
Portable toilets
Bug car
Insects parade
Some really dirty-looking man
Taiwan flags
Electric car. This is the future.
Having tea under a tree
Grass Willy
Grass whale
Grass caterpillar
Starbucks shop with flower on top
We wish you a Starbucks Christmas, we wish you a Starbucks Christmas…
Excuse me, why are you girls not in school?
Very nice pose, kiddo!
Couples come here to take pre-nup photos
Hug me, I’m freezing
Daddy and Me
I spot this Chinese carving on a wooden bench:
Life is a flower, and love is honey
Someone give me some honey.
Taipei International Flora Expo:
November 6, 2010 – April 25, 2011, 9am-10pm
www.2010taipeiexpo.tw
