First Trip to Chiayi

I dunno why Jorge hates this place, I love it!

Back to Mrs Piggyton’s hometown just for a day until I flew to Thailand for my birthday.

Fell in love with the place from the moment I arrived, it’s clean, quiet and just …. NICE!

🙂

Mr Piggyton’s Grand Birthday Trip

Mrs Piggy had really gone to town with this one!

First, we headed to Hsinchu to stay at the CD Motel in some themed rooms (first night was a merry go round, next the Tetris room!)

Then we had an excursion to the Liufucun Village Theme Park on my actual birthday which was AWESOME.

Next day, visiting the port and staying WeGo – then next day, another port visit, some crazy cycling – then home.

Best. Birthday. Ever 🙂

Grand Palace and Ding Dong!

A mix of a day out here!

Morning trip far away from the smog of central Taipei to see the Grand Palace and breath in the crisp, crisp air.

Then back after to Songshan Cultural Village to see Doraemon throughout the years.

A shame his door didn’t really work….!

Dinner at Ed’s Diner then a trip in the Wheel

Ed’s Diner – the nicest pulled pork in Taipei, followed by a relaxing ride around the Neihu Wheel.

Then – a night in WeGo … but there won’t be any photo of that!

😉

Taiwan Rally Championship

Woo – going to a far, far away place to hopefully watch some rally cars.

Yes, we should have probably organised a bit better, but the hotel we stayed in was awesome – even if it was kinda expensive!

And then on the day – awesome cars and a hot, hot girl – of course it was Mrs Piggyton!

xxx

Xmas 2012

Our first Xmas 🙂

Not too much space in my house, so we had to make do with just a little tree – still looks sweet though.

Perhaps went a bit overboard with the fake snow … still can’t get it off the mirror!

Really love love time 😉

Our First Cook!

Lasagna, a time classic!

Of course, we didn’t know about Costco at this time, so spends thousands of NT on cheese from Jason’s.

As you can see though, it came out pretty well!

Go us!

 

Kanchanaburi 2012

Trains, rivers and rain. But, an awesome swimming pool at the hotel – so peaceful!

Can’t forget the super evil fish at the waterfall – Rob, they were HORRIBLE! How can you make us try and stand in them?!?!

This place was extra special, as I hadn’t been there before 🙂

Hap Hap 😉

Phuket 2012

The first stop on our first foreign trip away, the beachside wonderland of Phuket.

We were lucky that the weather was so nice, sun sun sun! And beach, sea, beach, sea!

Luckily we had a bike, so we got to travel all around the island – that how we got to the sunset point 🙂