the one where Gina almost got in a fight

another long day today (I feel like I say this everyday). We started off the morning with McDonald's breakfast, which I quickly gave to Megan and Hannah, and bussed it to the national palace museum. Long story short, there is a very different view of personal space here, we all got body checked by tiny asian women atleast three times, and Gina resorted to screaming "rude" at them. Since we obviously don't appreciate art and culture, we high-tailed it to the children's part of the museum where we had the most fun of the whole museum experience.
After entirely too much time in the museum we went to lunch at this dumpling place that was pretty good. I just had a few bites because I wanted to take it light, megan and hannah ate nothing, and everyone else liked it.
The Cheng Kai Shek memorial was eerily like the Lincoln Memorial, with a big statue sitting in a memorial and looking down on all the visitors. What was NOT like the Lincoln memorial was the fact that there were two guards (thing the guys in London that NEVER move) guarding him. We watched the changing of the guards which was pretty cool, but strangely reminicent of Nazis, took some pictures, and headed over to Taipei 101.

We traveled to the top of the world's second highest building, took pictures, got pushed around by people that don't respect personal space, yada yada yada. After we got on the bus everyone passed out until dinner.
We went to a Mongolian BBQ place where we picked out our meats, veggies, and sauce and the people cooked it in front of us. Just like O-house stir fry! It was nice to have chicken which apparently is rare here, and it was also nice to know exactly what I was eating for once.
A short bus trip away was a cross between a night market and a mall where we bummed around, shopped (aka bought myself more shoes), and then we headed back to NTSU.

I'll add pictures, videos, and info to this later, but I have to pack for Kenting and start working on my paper. Hey procrastination!