The weather was bit overcast, very warm and humid but we wanted to get outdoors so we gave Gong Gong a call. We went over to pick him up and off went went. This past Saturday, was the presidential election. Surprisingly though, there were many people out enjoying the Science Museum.
After finding parking, we went up on the sidewalk and Ethan was so fascinated with the water, we just had to let him play for a bit.
Afterwards, we started on our stroll through the Science park grounds. It took us a while to get half way around to the back of the science museum. It was then that we decided to go near the botanical garden dome to see the surrounding flora. Unfortunately the botanical garden dome was under construction so we couldn't go inside but the surrounding grounds were not a disappointment.
Once again, Ethan was more fascinated with water than smiling for the camera.
Gong Gong having studied Botany described in great detail the kinds of trees and plants surrounding us as we walked through various wetlands and other areas found all over Taiwan.
Ethan got to feel the rough bark of several trees, grabbed berries of another and feel different leaves like ferns and pine needles.
He was also fascinated at the fish in the big lake at the entrance of the botanical garden dome.
Afterwards, we finished the other half of a walk around the science museum. We met up with a Canadian -Taiwanese couple with their two kids, a 5 yr old boy and a 4 month baby girl. They were commenting on how rare it is to see a Taiwanese grandfather carrying his grandson in a baby carrier. Usually it falls on the role of grandmother. They were duly impressed and made sure to comment that Adam and I must make sure that Ethan has a brother or a sister to keep him company.
As we finished our walk, Dad mentioned that Taiwan and Australia were the only two countries allowed to protect a certain tree dated back to the dinosaur age. To us it looked like a different version of a pine tree however we gave it our respect and took a photo.
A small bonus: Since it was the Presidential Election there were no scooters giving parking tickets to cars so we didn't have to pay for our parking space! Yay!
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