Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Elephant Hill + Shida Night Market Dinner with Friends

After a week of rain and a typhoon it cleared up on Saturday, so we decided to go for a bike ride.  We rode through the city to get to Elephant Mountain one of the 4 Beast Mountains. (the others are Lion, Tiger and Leopard)

The city biking was fine but throw the mountain road at me.... I almost DIED.   It's not a steep incline but it's a steady one all the way up.  Not only that,  it was the middle of the afternoon & it was probably 30+ degrees!

We thought this was a wasp nest or maybe some kind of tree growth.  Who knows?

I think I'm having a heat stroke.  Beautiful view though.

I swear Justin has super vision.  This Praying Mantis was in a tree probably 6 feet away on the side of the road. It still took me a minute to find it with Justin pointing it out to me.

As painful as it was, the view was worth it.

Didn't quite make it to the top.  1 km away  :(  Next time we're taking a scooter.

Surviving.

The road we took up  was through the mountain tombs. Very peaceful. 



Much happier, on our way down.  


  Lunch time at the Potato Guru

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Mexican Burger (had jalapenos and peanut butter)  & Chili Fries 

That night we went out with a few friends & had burgers again.  This one was an  Avocado & Tzatziki burger with cheese fries

This was the gourmet burger restaurant KGB ( Kiwi Gourmet Burger)  

After dinner we went to this little cafe/pub.  Here's my Cafe Mocha & Brownie.  So good.

Here we are...Me, COURTNEY (arrived a week ago from Montana.  She's one of the new teachers at the school Leia & Damien taught at)  DAN, SHANA, Matt and Justin.

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