From mountain to skyscraper

We woke up to a beautiful sunny morning but everyone for some reason was still wearing full winter clothes. We took a bus to Elephant Mountain. Mum and dad said there was 600 steps but I challenged them on that and as we climbed I counted each and every individual step. My total was 1083 (give or take 2 or 3). The walk up was relaxing as it was only a kilometres, just all steps. The views were cracking looking over Taipei City. I could see all the tall buildings, especially Taipei 101. When we descended, me and Fern stayed up at the playground area for about 15 minutes. We decided that we wanted to beat mum and dad down so we ran, and we overtook them! We beat them by 75 seconds.
Then we walked to Taipei 101 and the elevator was 60.6km an hour. 1010metres, per minute. This took us the 89th floor in about 15 seconds. When we got out it was amzing- it was such a great view and you could see everything. We did some postcards to Pappy and Florrie from the top of this and posted them.
In Taepei 101 it has a damper that prevents the building falling over and it can survive 200km winds. The technology was amazing. The damper is 660 mega tonnes.
We finished the day with a trip to a new market- Shilin. More shops than food stalls, not as good as the first night. I bought a lego set that lights up. I am excited to build it.Read more