Night market and gondola

Sunday it rained the entire day, so we were stuck inside and mostly just studied. Monday night we took the bus to the Gong guan night market. They have all kinds of food and little shops. I tried milk tea, which Taiwan is really famous for. It just tastes like iced tea with milk in it. We found a cute chocolate store, and lots of clothes stores.
Right after class on Tuesday we left to ride the gondolas. We got one with a glass bottom so we could see below us the whole ride. It was about a half hour ride up, and we got to see the sunset over the city skyline. It went by the Taipei zoo and a temple on the way up. Then we got off at the top of the mountain and there were shops, restaurants and tea houses up there. We picked a random restaurant we saw, and it ended up being my favorite meal of the trip. It was about $10 for our meal, and it felt really expensive to us since we've been paying hardly anything for our other meals. We got potato soup, a salad (it had clovers on it which we thought was weirs but they tasted good) a main dish (I got rosemary chicken spaghetti with basil tomato sauce), a latte smoothie, and chocolate strawberry rum cake. I was so full! We had a good view of the city during dinner too since we were up so high. After supper we went to one of the tea houses and bought some of the local tea to have later. On our way back to the gondola, I stepped on a giant bug that was the size of a small bird. It was disgusting. Then we took the gondolas back down and got to see the skyline lit up at night.
Lab has still been really interesting. Yesterday I got to see them anesthetize a mouse and then get rid of all the blood in it's body by pumping saline through the heart and then into the rest of the body. This morning we dis immunohistochemistry, although I liked the way I did it at home better.. I think it was easier. The head of their department came back today (he had been at UNI), so now tomorrow we get to meet with him for lunch an hes going to tell us about his experiences there. He said it's just as hot at home as it is here :)