Tainan

A few weekends ago, Erin and I took of to Tainan, a city south of us. Erin has some friends there who were nice enough to show us around. It was probably the hottest day I had encountered thus far in Taiwan, but still enjoyable, even as we took a walking tour to see the sights in the heat of the day!
Above is a picture of an old rice warehouse that was overtaken by the roots of some kind of tree- I will have to look it up. Anyway it was a really fun place to go exploring! They also had a museum there with wax figures, and they looked very realistic.

This was at a fort build during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. In the ruins we are looking at the walls are actually pasted together with rice!

These are some stone tablets sitting on the backs of stone turtles. There were originally nine of them, but one fell in the ocean when they were unloading them. Many years later when they fished it out of the water(just recently), someone had an eye irritation and scooped water out of its back to flush it out. He was supposedly healed and the next thing you know the turtle was declared to have healing power and named a god. Crazy! It now has it's own temple and everything.

We were SUPER excited to see this fresh squeezed lemonade on that very hot day!

This is part of the first Confucius temple built in Taiwan. They have lots of ancient instruments and clothes in a viewing area on the side of the temple.

Part of a school where they would educate those who participated in rituals for the confucius celebrations.

Our very yummy lunch!!

I am so glad I was able to go and visit John and Marianne with Erin. They were awesome hosts!!!