TAIWAN
Christmas
As much as Taiwan loves Sant LINE characters wearing Sant icicle lights , the actual d like most other days.
My Aunt and Uncle wanted to at home, so on Christmas Eve work and took me somewhere I
We got some deliciously medi pondered a churro and decide perused the long aisles full and peanut butter. After car selected an obnoxious quanti blueberry muffins and headed that the real Christmas fest
ta Claus, Christmas Trees, ta Hats, and twinkling day of Christmas passes by
make it feel a little more e they picked me up from I’d feel at home‌ Costco.
iocre Costco pizza, ed against it, and then l of bulk packs of diapers reful consideration, we ity of banana nut and d to their apartment so tivities could begin.
They put up a Christmas t
We spent the night listen playing card games, eatin (and Pringles duh), and d and I shook our present b sleepover. You know, grow
tree and everything.
ning to Christmas tunes, ng Taiwanese junk food drinking before Meghan boxes and then had a wn up things.
The next morning in Wulai we nibbed on traditional foods, looked at tiny hut Taiwanese aboriginals (Me to dodge the rain.
Then, in what I hope will tradition, we went to a s
Remember NRH2O? Well, act nothing like it, but I’m place and it came to mind
i, about an hour away, Taiwanese market t models, learned about eghan’s idea), and tried
l become a Christmas spa/waterpark.
tually this was mostly nostalgic about that d.
Instead picture a large i stations that pump water Nozzles and waterfalls an your shoulders, back, nec and jets knead at your ca below. Now fill this pool citizens in colorful vari swimcaps. This facility a rooms, scented soak pools flesh-eating fish spa poo
indoor pool with small at high pressures. nd showerheads massage ck, and arms from above alves and feet from l with Taiwanese senior iations of speedos and also sports saunas, steam s, swimming lanes, and‌ a ol.
Hundreds of tiny (and a f orange fish swim at the s waiting for the next foot pond so they can feast at skin between your toes. I the strange feeling of ti to your feet and ankles, tingling sensation of you
few frighteningly large) surface a small pool t to emerge into the t the calouses and dead I wish I could describe iny fish teeth suctioned nibbling away‌like the ur foot falling asleep.
...The longest I could ke maybe 4 minutes.
eep a foot in there was