Day 1 - Taichung

We reached the airport at 6am, waited forever for our luggage. By the time we reached the bus counters, we had already missed the 6.30am bus. We were surprised to see that it was raining, and when we asked the bus driver, he said the past few days were really sunny and that day was the first day of rain all November! We took the next available bus that was scheduled to leave at 7.10am. The bus ticket costs NT$260, which translates to about SGD$11 each.
We reached Taichung at 9.45am and found our hotel relatively quickly. It's situated behind Taichung Railway Station and you have to get through the underpass to reach it.

After we deposited our luggage, since it was still early and we couldn't check in yet, we decided to walk around the place and get some breakfast!

It was drizzling and we both got quite wet. Decided to head back to the hotel to wait for check in. Finally at 3pm, we were allowed to check in! =)

I liked my room a lot as it was really spacious. You can see from the pic below there's a wooden platform so that's where my luggage went. The hotel was really clean and they gave us a free upgrade so we got the highest floor (level 10). Everything looked really clean and well-maintained. The room was bright and cheerful, despite the gloomy weather outside.

After checking in, I was tired from the earlier walking and lack of sleep so rested in hotel a bit then went out to grab food. Just as we stepped out of the hotel, K and Cy arrived! So happy to know they were here when we got back 10 minutes later.

Immediately they went to their room, changed, then off we went to the biggest night market in Taichung: Feng Jia Night Market!

We walked around, ate and shopped. Both the food and shopping are cheap! Feng Jia is a good place to go in Taichung coz it's big enough to not be boring. But I think we all started to feel tired after eating so much and shopping so much so we went to a small cafe to chill and relax. Met 2 young chaps studying at Feng Jia University and they were so friendly! Had a great time just chatting with them. We left the night market at about 12am and took a cab back to the hotel. After that we bought my favouritest cup noodles in the world and ate at the hotel lobby's rest area. It was fun just eating cup noodles together and chatting and planning for the next day. =)