day 2 - 花莲

Wake up! Wake up!

Rise and Shine.

Today, we woke up really early, earlier than I have ever woken up since I was a year old. This morning, the sunshine shot through the glass window at 6 am, yes you read right... its 6 am only and it looked as if it was 7am which it gave us a wrong impression at first.

Well it was a good idea to wake up early as we are going out for breakfast at the Hotel's lounge before leaving for Taipei train station.


Daddy was busy packing up the stuff and I, busy with the TV programmes. What about Mummy? She will be our photographer for the whole of this trip thus she will be busy with snapping here and there. :)


Below showed a picture of the lounge where we took our breakfast.



This was us playing while having breakfast, again we never let go of any chances to play whenever this was. :p

After the breakfast, we headed straight for the train station, where we experienced a few hiccups along the way. First, it was the unexpected rain, 2nd it was the stairs, can you believe it, there wasn't any lift and both the Daddies had to lug the luggage down the long flight of steep stairs.

A big thank you and SALUTE to the Daddies!!

Yes entering the station, Aunty Claudial was busy looking out for the correct signage to the train which we were taking.


This was the "VICTORY/ 盛力" pose by Aunty Claudial and Kiet Kor kor.

Luckily we were there in time, we were about 10 minutes earlier than expected there we rested for a while. While waiting to board the train I fell asleep in the Ergo Carrier. It was a great sign of relief as Mummy was still thinking how to keep me entertain onboard the train... the train ride was for another 2 1/2 hours.

Problem settled!

hehehe !!




The Sleepy Little Jeremiah.... snoozing away for the next 2 hours .....



I was awoken by the discussions that was going on while I was asleep for the past 2 hours and yes its only half an hour before reaching our destination and I am up and ready to go.

Yippee we finally reached Hua Lien Train station, and there will be someone fetching us from the Hua Lien train station to Rose Garden Min Su. The ride will take less than 15 minutes.



Daddy striking a pose with our luggages for the 1st 3 nights.

Mummy with her only "Luggage: ME!!"... :p


Before we left for Hua Lien there was this old lady, she owned a store just at the 1st floor of the hotel at where we stayed for the 1st night in Taipei.

She warned us about the occasional showers in Hua Lien and that it will pass really quickly. True enough, on our way to Hua Lien there has been light showers throughout the whole train ride.

Above picture showed Hua Lien Train station where many people are waiting for the rain to stop before moving off.



This is the lovely hotel (known as a 玫瑰花园 民宿) that we stayed in 花莲 for 3 nights, from 13 sep till 15 sep 2009. If you stare really hard, there is a small door where there will be a long flight of stairs leading us up to the Min Su.

Please click here for more info http://www.roseland.com.tw/english.html




This is the reception area where the customers surf the internet and have their breakfast every morning. There are 3 stories altogether and we stayed at the 2nd storey.








i love the timber flooring.... cos it makes my footsteps sound large. not sure whether the aunties and uncles staying there agree though :)

After checking in, the Wongs rested for the whole afternoon and woke up only around 7.00pm to start looking around for food. When we stepped out of the Min Su we got a shock, it was so dark outside. We thought it was already 8pm but its showed 7.15pm on Daddy's watch.

This was a picture taken from inside the restaurant which we took our dinner, the dinner was satisfying and we headed back to the Min Su.

Above showed a picture of the very Happy Daddy with his laptop and he was surfing the net for the first time in Hua Lien. That makes him very happy, but while he was surfing, I missed my cartoons from Playhouse Disney, Cbeebies, Jim Jam etc. So I got Daddy to play a video for me and I was so happy that I started to sing along with the video.

Below showed a clip of my mini karaoke session :