Welcome back!
This was our second day in Kenting. Tiffany Lu met us at the bus station in Hengchun and took us through the morning market for some souvineer shopping. We found several good stores and the kids had a fun time shopping for swords and other things. Afterward we had some good Danbing’s for breakfast.
The weather was overcast and rainy so we were glad that we planned to spend the day at the National Aquarium. The aquarium was HUGE and is very new. Many state-of-the-art tanks and displays were enjoyed and we ended our visit with lunch in their cafeteria.
After the aquarium we drove south to find Baisha (White-sand beach). It is quite a different place now with lots of people and several little beach-front shops for dining or renting beach toys. As a missionary we would visit this beach and we would be the only people at the beach (plus, it would be difficult to find a taxi driver that even knew how to find Baisha. The weather was still overcast but occasionally the sun would peek through. Rain poured down several times but we still had a lot of fun swimming in the bath-tub-like ocean while the cold rain came down.
That evening we went the to the Kending night market again. We shopped and sampled foods and the boys had one of the street vendors make them a souvenier; they had their names painted with the letters artistically done to look like a dragon. Natalie also got a funny picture taken with a male dancer outside of one of the night-clubs. Apparently he had been dancing-up quite a sweat because Natalie’s shirt was drenched from leaning up next to him!
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This post was written by Paul Pearson on August 1, 2006
