...when my daughter made her first visit yesterday to an amusement park. Thanks to the fact that one of my wife's co-workers drives a Suzuki スズキ, we were able to visit the Yamay Resort 月眉育樂世界 overlooking the town of Hòulǐ 后里 for the ridiculously low admission price of NT150 ($5.20/¥410) each (there was some kind of Suzuki promotion taking place on Saturday, and Suzuki drivers were eligible for the special discount). The tickets were good for not one, but two parks - the Mǎlā Bay water park 馬拉灣主題樂園 and the adjoining Discovery World 探索主題樂園. Amber has actually visited Mala Bay before, to enjoy the water slides and wave pool (and we were fortunate this time in that we were able to get in a full morning of fun in the water before the daily downpour came down just after lunchtime). But Discovery World was a new, um, discovery for my five year-old as it was her first time to see roller coasters and other such rides up close. Alas, being under 120 centimeters (47 inches, or 3'11") in height meant that Amber was unable to go on many of the attractions, much to her initial disappointment. However, it turned out that Discovery World has a very good kids area filled with child-size coasters, flying elephant rides, motor cars and the like, and my daughter took advantage of almost everything that was she big enough to go on (several times on some of them). Did she enjoy herself? I think the pictures below speak for themselves...
The evening culminated with some kind of fountain and light show involving a lot of costumed dancers. I was completely lost on the storyline (and I wondered if the Russian cast members really knew what they were supposed to be dancing along to), but in any event the climax involved a lot of water being sprayed on the crowd (thank god we were prepared!). The woman on the right is Yoko, my wife's colleague and the woman whose car made this entire day possible for all of us.
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