三舅媽 wanted to take me to Dajia Mazu miao today. Off we go, I told her that it's not the 7-11 she needs to pick me up at inbetween two oter conbinis, but the one on the corner. Lol guess where she went. 🤣 Oh well at least she found the place. Dajia is about a 40 mins drive out. The miao's carvings were mostly black-incense smoke free. 三舅媽 took me around to pray and put incense into the big pots. It's a very pretty miao. After that we went to the basement where they have the Mazu statue made from pure gold. It took a year to sculpt and the artisan did a good job. it's very immaculate, and Mazu's expression is of calm, serious but kind. They had some carving works from precious stone, and those were very nciely done. The basement also has some jewellry cabinets selling various precious stones and pearls, etc. No photos of the actual statue allowed but no one said I can't take a photo of the sign with a photo of the statue on it lol. I almost never take photos of the deity statues themselves because I feel like it would be disrespectful.
After that, lunch time. 三舅媽 suggested a teppanyaki restaurant but they had closed doors so it's a no from me. I suggested the roadside stalls with the local eats, and there was a good breeze today so that was great. I had a type of fish thick soup (yu gin tang), and Ru Zou Fan. Yummy. Veges and some fried tofu as side dishes. Then we went back to a nearby store that sells specialtly local pastries and cakes, and I got one that's a 奶油小酥餅 and a small version for 二叔 since he has diabetes. After that, we went back to the parked car, and headed to Wuqi fshing harbour. They have a lot of stalls inside, restaurants, eating, food products, drinks, and a fresh market for the fish and seafood. This place apparently gets so busy on the weekends, the carpark is full just after you enter. Today only the top 2 blocks were full. I think there are more than 10 blocks total. Sadly because we ate so much for lunch we couldn't fit anything else. Then we went to the harbourside and had a look at the fishing boats, and the tour boats. Chatted for a bit. And then headed home after going to the toilet.
The GPS kept wanting to take us on the really small roads to connect to Highway 10, but 三舅媽 wanted to go the big roads (like the way we came on Taiwan Bvld, ex Zhong Ghang Rd), so I ended up manually navigating her to the Bvld where she knows how to get back.
Thanked her for a good day and she droped me off on the roadside.
Went home and started trying to figure out my luggage... pressure as I hit the limit for pretty much both suitacases... ended up swapping to a smaller box that was lighter. More tetris and repacking, removing unnecessary packagaing until it's under 23kg. Then had to frankenstein the top of the box as I couldn't fit the shitake mushrooms in, so it could fit.
Taped the box and then gladwrapped it. 二叔 then spent ages being particular about tying a handle onto the box in a particular way, etc, and took ages.
It was already 6:30pm by the time we got to a certaim stage, and went out for dinner. 二叔 suggested a place that was unfortunately too indoor.... but we found some place else selling noodles around the corner that was completely open. At this angle there's a bit of a breeze too, so that's reall good. Their noodles were pretty delicious too. Called 葉家麵館.
After that, we headed home to grandma's. Unfortunately we arrived just as the 劇說台灣 drama finished, just before 8pm, so I didn't get to see the continuation. We met 五叔 at the elevator on 5F as he was going down to throw the rubbish out. Grandma's Sampo fridge has broken down so after he got back, 五嬸 and 五叔 went out to Carrefour to check out new fridges. We ended up staying until they got back which was about 9:45pm. Pretty late. I had a good chat with 小智 just before that though. He told me about his experience on flying to Chengdu in China, and how the tried to take the bus after being advised by the taxi driver he was going to take, that he could take the bus... and ended up getting lost and missing his connecting flight from Sha'men (I think it was) at 6pm. Then the next flight was at 10pm, but kept being delyaed due to heavy rain at the destination. He didn't get to his destination until like 5 or 6am. Welp. Lesson learnt, experience gained.
After we got home it's just shower, blog, and bed. I will have to sort out last lot of post cards tomorrow and also arrange posting back the sim card to Dark H.
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