Again a mostly unplanned day. I did entertain the idea of venturing out of Taipei for a day trip again when I was doing trip planning, but in the end I thought one day doesn’t feel like enough (though in hindsight, maybe I could have considered 基隆 or even 桃园?). Anyway wandering slowly anround Taipei wasn’t a bad idea either so it remained unplanned other than the first thing on my agenda in the morning which is….back to Taipei 101. Or more specifically, Simple Kaffa at Taipei 101, which is touted as the highest cafe in the world. 

The idea sounded appealing at first but I figured that this isn’t something that I would drag my family along with, so I scheduled it on the solo trip portion. And specifically on a weekday coz weekends will be busier and apparently harder to reserve online even if you do so on the dot (slots open like one week before). Then when I inserted 101 into my itinerary a couple of days ago I completely forgot about this so I ended up going up 101 twice. No regrets, I guess. 

Dining time limit of 1.5 hours though, so came down around noon. The only other thing on the agenda today was to collect the specs that we made the other day - mine was actually ready on the spot that day but the sister’s pair had to be shipped over from another branch so it took a couple of days. And they couldn’t give an exact timing for the shipment either so I thought I could just hang out in the area for a bit thinking that it shouldn’t take that long, like maybe early afternoon perhaps. Revisited a couple of spots in the area which I have been to in my previous trips to Taipei, and also got a bit of light shopping done.

Popped by the specs shop after my late lunch, and was told that it wasn’t here yet (“we’ll send you an email once it has reached!” And somehow I was very skeptical about this). But I had ran out of things to do in this area, so I headed off to Taipei Main Station in a bid to find food souvenirs and perhaps cheaper ones, coz I realized by now that they are sort of expensive :/ 

Like within 10 minutes of reaching Taipei Main Station the email came gahhhh. And ended up I couldn’t find anything I wanted there so went back down the MRT line to Xinyi. And did my food souvenir purchases there.