Double 10

Last weekend was Taiwan’s National Day, more commonly known as Double 10. More importantly that meant a long weekend! The whole weekend was spent mostly relaxing. On Friday we got up late and went for lunch at a Dim Sum place then we went to Noah’s and spent the rest of the early afternoon and evening drinking the day away. It was a great relaxing day and people slowly began turning up at Jacks and Noah’s and it turned into the usual mini house party. Hamish and Steve also came to Taipei to spend the long weekend away from Taichung. It was good to see them again, especially Hamish as I haven’t seen him for such a long time. They left early to head to ShiLin to catch a light show while George and I stayed at Noah’s. Unfortunately the effect of all day drinking consistently began to take its toll and we decided to call it a night relatively early, about 1 or 2. We headed back home where Steve crashed. Meanwhile the rest of us hung out on the balcony until about 4 talking and drinking some more.

Saturday got off to an early start due to Steve’s persistent cough waking us all up at about 10. George headed off to pick up some tickets for the upcoming film festival and the rest of us went to Carnegie’s for a great lunch and some shopping a the bookstores near 101. By the time we finished that it was early evening so we all met up at Alleycats for dinner. Then it was off to Brass Monkey where we met Erin and some of her friends. The drinks there were great and we slowly began to get a little drunk and we got persuaded to go to vibe. We arrived there at about 1:30 and it was basically empty. We had the entire dance floor to ourselves and the music was quite good for a while. We finally left at about 4:30, had breakfast and crashed at about 6. Sunday was spent mostly recovering from the excessive drinking of the past two days. I still never managed to get a Taiwanese flag, next year for sure!!