Last Saturday Rika and Aaron Meyer invited Eric and I to go hiking up Elephant Mountain with them, which is located in Taipei. Elephant Mountain is a pretty popular mountain to hike in Taiwan since it overlooks Taipei 101 (the tallest building in the world right now) and has a pretty awesome view of the city. One of the teachers we work with at Cinhua, Autumn, also came along with us. Aaron and Rika told us to meet them at the bottom of the mountain at 2:00 PM, which Autumn, Eric, and I were late for by 20 minutes (we have to take public transportation so it's kinda unpredictable)...
When we got to the bottom of the mountain Aaron and Rika were not there which was odd to us since they only live about 20 minutes away from Taipei. As new teachers we don't receive phones until who knows when, so we didn't have phones to reach each other with. We waited for about 50 minutes for the two until we finally said, "forget them! let's just go!!". After about 15 minutes of hiking up the mountain we found Rika and Aaron standing on top of this giant rock! Suprise!! They were there! They told us that they got horribly lost on their bus on the way and that their cab driver took them to the wrong side of the mountain. Luckily somehow we ran into the two and made the rest of the hike with them. I'm so happy we did because we all had such a spectacular time together!
The pictures of us with the view in the background were taken on top of that giant rock we found Rika and Aaron on. While on the mountain we found a temple, which I took a few photos of some of the outside decorations. The picture I took of the car was at the bottom of the mountain which I thought was pretty interesting because it was a British car with a Kansas license plate on it sitting in Taipei, Taiwan.
While on the hike we went through this path that reminded us of the Swiss Family Robinson scenery. It was pretty much awesome! It was raining while walking through it so I couldn't take any photos, but maybe I'll go back for some more later. I must say, it was a fantacular day!
This looks like a beautiful place Les! I especially like the picture of the little guy on the temple. Miss you TONS. Katie and Roxanne started student teaching at flec today (just for the week), and it was nice to see them a couple of times. BTW, wasn't Autumn (the girl with you in the pics) a student teacher when we were at FLA? I think so... Love you bye!
ReplyDeleteLESLIE!!! Great eye with that car! I´m glad your having an amazing time. Also, if monica is right about the student teacher, I think she has the memory of an elephant! MUAH miss ya! keep postin´
ReplyDeleteMonica: Hey friend! That's great that they're there! I bet it's nice having some friends around at work. Yea, it was really beautiful where we went hiking. I didn't even take pictures of where it was the most beautiful due to rainy weather. Yea, that's Autumn. I had no idea she student taught while we were there.. kinda strange now working on the same lines of someone who was a teacher while I was a student. Monica I love you too I miss you soooooooooo much! You and I should do a skype date without the boys cause they seem to do all the talking!
ReplyDeleteStella: I miss you more I bet! Yea, I can't believe Monica remembered that. I don't even think I knew she was at FLA when we were.. Hope you're also having an amazing time in Brazil with your family! Love you my friend.
Leslie! I'm so glad that you guys got to hook up with Aaron and Rika! Those pictures are amazing, I'm stoked to see more. Miss you friend!
ReplyDeleteTara!! Yea, it's so fun having friends here! They don't work with us, but at least we get to see them on the weekends. Miss you too friend!!
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