After we had a nice dinner with Helen's cousins (Frank, Alice and Pauline), we were convinced to brave taking a bus to Jiufen outside of Taipei city.  Jiufe is a city that once experienced a gold mining explosion....the biggest gold mine in Asia.  Situated on a steep hillside,  the town has a crowded market where everything seems to be sold.  Under my "encouragement", we climbed to the top of Mt Keelung which overlooks the sea.

This was the conversation about going up the mountain
Z: Let's not go too far and if we do go to the first temple mom will want to go to the next one and the next one!
K: I will not. Now stop complaining and come on!

At the first temple
Z: And here it comes..
K: Let's go to the next one it's not too far?
Z:  ( talking to Myles) told you so! :( my knees were very upset that they had to keep going!

Me,
Out!

There were lots of food, toys and clothes at the market. We saw lots of food. We got a sweet potato filled croissant, a very sweet Chinese sausage on a stick, an ice-cream filled burrito (which had peanut grounded peanut brittle, cilantro and, you guessed it, ice-cream), and green Mochi balls filled with sweet red beans (which is all gone now).  Yumm!p