My mom is here! She came in on Thursday night and we spent the weekend in Taipei checking out such highlights as the botanical gardens, the Chienkuo weekend jade market and the famous jadeite cabbage at the National Palace Museum. Taipei's Lantern Festival is also going on this week, so we had the chance to see that while we were visiting Taipei 101. Although I am rather partial to the Taiwan Lantern Festival in Yilan (see Taiwan Lantern Festival comes to Yilan!), this was still a very cool display, nonetheless. How can you top the lantern of Taipei 101 with the real Taipei 101 in the background? Or a lantern tribute to Cape No. 7 with all of the band members cast as Oxen? Classic!
The coolest section, though, was probably the student lanterns. They seemed to follow a theme of recycling, using all manner of reclaimed items to make these great pieces of light-up art. Some looked like used water bottles glued together, while others represented cityscapes in reused shampoo bottles or, my favorite, a peacock in used bottles and CDs.
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