Taipei 101

This is the Taipei 101...the tallest building in the world. Brian says it's the tallest building in the universe. I'm not sure if he is right, but, there you go. The building is actually pretty impressive, and for the mere fee of 5oo NT per person (about $15 US...even Madi) you can take a trip to the top and see the fanatastic view.....................but unfortunately Brian and I didn't consider that a good enough deal to grab onto. So, this is all you get. There was a pretty cool mall attached to the side of this building. We didn't get any pictures of it, but it was HUGE! We shopped around in there for a little while....we didn't get the chance to see all ten floors of it, but we did get to see enough to know that it was a tad bit upscale for our budget. They had Tiffany's, Dior, Versace, LLadro, Prada.....you name it designer and they have it. There was a pretty cool toy store there, and our personal favorite...a Haagen Daas ice cream store...yeeaa! We all got some ice cream....real ice cream....not that Taiwanese version with red bean and green tea. Oh man, it was sooooo goood! Here is a picture of the aftermath of the ice cream for Madi. The picture doesn't really do it justice...she was covered in chocolate, but she wiped a little of it off before we could get the camera. The picture on her face is a tatoo....we decided to get her a real one to go along with her earrings. Just kidding.....it was actually from the clown festival that Brian and Madison went to while I went to the temple session in the morning. The clowns gave her a whole page full of these cute little tatoos after they put one on her face (you know it was a dad that let them put it on her face of all places.......have you ever tried to get one of those to come off?!) They also gave her a whistle and a little Doraimon keychain thing. The clown festival was at the Chiang KaiShek Memorial Center (we've posted pictures of it from our last visit to Taipei) and we just got lucky to be in town at the same time.