Tainan! part II-Play Time!

For dinner on thursday night, We went to Flower Garden Night Market (花園夜市) for dinner. This night market only runs on selective nights - Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, so our timing was just right! We walked around and ate 小吃 for dinner.

the entrance...
a blurry picture of the overview of the night market
On friday night, the conference planners had set up an excursion, also to An-ping. But since none of my lab members were going on the excursion, I decided not to go either. (Half went to watch a movie, some went back to the hotel, and then 3 of us went to An-Ping). Since Pei-Wei Chu is also a resident of Tainan, she borrowed her dad's car and drove us around. I tried An-Ping's famous 東瓜茶 and I thought it was pretty good. (Well, it was very hot, so anything cold would've been good. - Tainan is alot hotter than Taipei) We visited An-Ping Fort (安平古堡), which used to be called Fort Zeelandia (熱蘭遮城). I think going with Pei-Wei and Dr. Gwan was alot more fun than it would have been if I went with the people from the conference. They were too grown up/smart for me! Funny story, before the excursion on friday, I was wondering whether or not I needed to cancel my spot since I wasn't going anymore, so Dr. Gwan went to go ask for me. Man, the conference people were so pissy, they were like "you know its a waste of money, we had to put down a deposit and pay for insurance for each person. this is why we asked during wednesday's check-in. If you didn't want to go, you could have just said no. it's a waste of money you know...blah, blah, blah" I understand their point, but it was funny, because they were so upset and stuff. Chinese people are pretty funny in general though.

We took alot of pictures, but because of the limit I have for my blogspot account, I can't put up everything =(

some ship models...
Pei-Wei told me that these are like "good luck" charms. Students come before exams to the temple to pray to Buddha ( i think?) for good luck on their tests and stick the "charms" here. I doubt they are actually called charms, but I forgot what they are called.

i think its weird some students actually have their pictures on it
Dr. Gwan, me, and Pei-Wei
i think this is actually Fort Anping. Anyways, here is the famous watch tower
and we wanted to take a picture with the scenery outside of the tower, but the girl who took the picture failed to capture the scenery too, oh well =(
Pei-Wei parked her car in the lot of a cemetery. So in case you are wondering what cemeteries in TW looks like, here you go...
Dr. Gwan was like, "why would you want a picture of that?" and then she looked at me funny.

we also went to many temples, but since I cannot remember which temple is which, I will just leave you with this!

再見了安平!
>.<