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yes you'll love them wow |
taiwan really is different from america here is your tea and food |
oh this looks so pretty the teapots and the little tea cups |
i have to take a picture i can take the picture patty |
you can be in it that will be more |
beautiful oh okay |
wait let's pour some tea into the cups then |
let's hold our cups are you okay |
i think so wow |
that's a hot i haven't had traditional tea like this |
for years we usually use tea bags in america are |
you sure you didn't burn your fingers patty |
yeah i'm okay look my fingers aren't even red |
these little tea cups get really hot really fast i remember now |
how's your tea patty it's wonderful you should try some of mine too |
okay ouch |
derek you burned me what |
no i didn't jim yes you did |
you spilled a pot of tea on me look at my clothes |
they're all wet and so is my arm |
uh i'm really sorry |
how did that happen i didn't touch your teapot |
yes you did you are a terrible server |
you should be fired fired |
no i really need this job |
excuse me i'm sure it was just an accident |
how do you know did you see it happen well |
no did anyone here see what happened |
that's what i thought derek wouldn't spill hot tea on you on purpose well |
he did i am going to talk to your boss |
lauben lauben excuse me but jim is lying |
dear journal i'm having taiwan adventures already |
grandma and roger took me to a traditional tea house yesterday |
the building was beautiful and the tea was delicious |
i liked drinking tea made from tea leaves instead of tea bags |
i also liked the blood rice cake it was yummy |
grandma told me about other tea houses she has been to |
she has lived in taiwan for 50 years so she's been to a lot of tea houses |
a really exciting thing happened at the tea house a customer jim |
said that derek our server spilled hot tea on him and burned him |
but jim didn't act like he was in pain also if jim's skin were burned it should |
be red and hot his arm was wet but not red |
so i knew he lied then we checked jim's table |
his pot of tea was almost full and we found a half empty water bottle |
jim must have poured the water on himself |
we found out that jim is jealous of derek |
jim wanted derek's job but the boss hired derek instead of jim |
well i'm going to bed it's only 8 o'clock but jet lag is making me so |
tired the taiwan traveler patty |
here we are this is the entrance to taroko gorge |
what a pretty gate let's take some pictures |
okay everyone stand over there |
great now let's see the gorge |
okay get in the car |
tell me more about the gorge what can we do here |
we can do lots of things we can hike |
yes we can hike to some waterfalls okay |
there are some easy trails and some hard trails |
let's hike on the easy trails one trail is not far from here |
it goes to the eternal spring shrine can we hike that trail |
is it an easy trail sure let's go what a beautiful view |
and this is a beautiful place it is |
look at the water the shrine is over a waterfall |
that's cool i like this place |
it is so peaceful me too brian |
what does taroko mean it means beautiful in the amis language |
that's a good name for this place dear journal today i went to taroko |
gorge with grandma roger and brian what a beautiful place the gorge walls |
are so steep the gorge is part of taiwan's cross |
island highway workers built this highway in the 1950s |
hundreds of workers died building it i saw their names at the eternal spring |
shrine taroko is the largest marble gorge in |
the world the road through it is next to the li wu |
river it's so pretty |
i loved looking up at the gorge walls and then down into the river |
i really liked the tunnel of nine turns some parts of the tunnel are open |
you can look down at the river and in some places the gorge is really |
narrow the mountains around here are really |
beautiful they are so different from the mountains |
at home in colorado mountains here are not as high and they |
have a lot more trees tonight we are staying in a hotel in the |
gorge tomorrow we'll hike more and visit |
another waterfall brian told me about so many beautiful |
places here i want to see them all good morning paddy did you sleep well oh |
yes i'm ready for another hike which |
waterfall are we going to see grandma wants to hike to buy young waterfall |
is that a long hike no |
but you begin the hike with a walk through a tunnel |
fun where are brian and grandma |
they're still eating breakfast brian is a slow eater |
we're here how many manto did you eat brian |
only four that's a lot |
well let's go |
okay we'll drive about 300 meters then we |
walk through a long tunnel |
are there lights in the tunnel no |
we'll walk in the dark it will be an adventure |
[Laughter] okay |
don't worry paddy i brought flashlights |
what are we going to do now |