March 11, 2011: The morning trip to Leo Foo Safari Theme Park was more of a quick inspection than a literal day in the park. The cold weather and time alotted wasn't agreeable enough for any of us to wait in line for any of the rides, much less go around and see the whole place (the travel agency's printed itinerary devoted 90% of text descibing the park for our third day, w/c was 90% less than what we saw). Not that we would as all the seats on the good rides were wet from the rain. All that didn't stop the schoolkids that were already there, though, stuffing their faces w/ junk food and wearing giant sandwich bags for raincoats. Basically we were there because the theme park's cafeteria/retaurant was the closest lunch stop we had, but from the food they served obviously not the best stop.
After a couple of hours on the bus we were in TaiChung. Then we spent another couple of hours at a local mall (frankly the day went by quickly) before killing another couple of hours before dinner. The Taiwan Banana New Paradise Humanity Teahouse and Restaurant (I'm guessing that translation's more lost than Bill Murray) recreates the look of a TaiChung street in the 1940s, or so they claim. Almost everything on display was from when my travelling companions were kids, and I'm not just talking about cameras that used celluloid film.
Oh, yeah: Food wasn't that good, either.
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