Day 1, Part 1:

Woke up at 6 a.m. with the sun shinen, and us all ready for an epic adventure. I rolled over looking at my cute Lil Buddy cuddled in my arms, and my handsome hubby playing games on his phone. I felt the smile slowly wash over my face as I remembered where we were. “We’re in Taiwan!” I whispered excitedly to my husband. He looked back at me with a huge grin. ”We’re  in Taiwan!” He whispered back in happy confirmation. “We’re half way across the world!” He smiled and whispered the same back to me. That was what I found myself randomly saying to him every so often through out the day.

Let me say our hotel was awesome! The bed was two double sized mattresses pushed together to form basically one GIANT bed, I rolled around on that sucker for a good few seconds. We co-sleep with Lil Buddy on a Queen size mattress at home. It’s not bad, but it hella ain’t a king size mattress. I have not had that much space to sleep in in…NEVER. 

Here are pics of our hotel:

My hubby had picked the place it is called the Amba Hotel in Taipei. If you happen to go to Taiwan this is the place to stay. It is right in the middle of the hip part of downtown. The streets close down at night so people can walk around, and shop. Some of my favorite shops turned out to be in this area. Plus it is also a five-minute walk to the MRT, which is the train station that EVERYONE uses to get around.

           

Funny story about how we got to the hotel:

           It was 9:30 at night when our ride dropped us off at a street corner near our hotel. We had our luggage, stroller, and car seat dragging behind us as we walked around trying to figure out where our hotel was. As we were walking down a street there where mopeds zipping by us, and cars that were driving down a road that looked more like a side walk. We're walking down this street and I see in big white lights on the side of a building the words AMBA. My husband being the leader he is, and our guide for this trip is supposed to be finding the hotel. I didn’t say anything, because I thought, “well maybe it’s just really big, and he is trying to find the entrance.” As we walk a few more city blocks I realize he didn’t see it. So as I see him looking lost around for a few seconds I say,”Honey I think it was back that way..” He looks at me, and says. “ I am pretty sure it’s this way actually.” I respond, “Really? Because I just saw the word AMBA in huge white letters a few blocks back.” He just shook his head, and said we could try it. As we walked two blocks back we come to one side of the hotel with HUGE white letters that say Amba…..Yeah, we were tired…plus this is a common thing in our marriage.

 Even half way across the world some things don’t change.