Fu Long Beach

One of the best days so far this summer. Bus D planned a trip to Fu Long Beach for the Rock Music Festival and to just hang out at the beach. We met up at Taipei Station and took the hour-and-half train to Fu Long. It took forever. Some of us ended up sitting on the floor of the train because no one was getting off. First thing we got to Fu Long Station was to get Fu Long 便當. After eating our meal in the scorching heat, we went to a 7-11 and bought 15 cans of beer and drank it on the way to the beach. It's so chill in Taiwan; no one cared if we showed beer and drank it in public. Everyone else was doing the same thing too. At the beach, we rented a beach umbrella and all hid under the shade because the parts of the sand that aren't in the shade were burning hot. A few of us went right into the water to cool down. The beach was actually really nice and the sand was really smooth - no broken seashells or disgusting seaweeds. And the water was pretty warm too so it wasn't cold staying in it for a long time. We pretty much stayed in the water all afternoon, with the exception of running back to the umbrella to get more beer. We took the beer cans into the water and drank it there. This only happens in Taiwan. Eventually, almost everyone joined us in the water and we tried flipping people, stacking people into a tower, building pyramids and doing random stuff. At around 4 pm we walked over to the music festival to check it out, but we didn't understand what the bands were singing and it wasn't that much fun. However, TTV, a news channel, asked us to say the Fu Long Festival is awesome to the camera, recorded us and it aired on the evening news. My grandma saw it and told me about it. I've been on TV in Taiwan! Wooh! We took a final dip in the water before changing and heading back to Taipei to eat dinner.

At Taipei we ate at an all-you-can-eat BBQ place. Got so many plates of meat and ate all of it. It was such a satisfying dinner after a whole day in the sun. We left the restaurant at 11:30 and now I'm still so bloated.

Today at the beach and hanging out with people from Bus D, and new friends, was one of the most exciting days yet this summer.

The photos aren't that high quality because they were taken from my phone. Didn't want to risk bringing my D40 to the beach.

Fu Long Beach.

Beach umbrellas for rent.

Just a small portion of our stash...

Music Festival.

Bridge leading into the beach area.