Hey guys! I'm at the Taipei Main train station picking up Jenny's parents,
and, uh, wow, look at this place! It's huge!
(Softly: Woo!)
So fancy!
[Indistinct Mandarin]
Hey guys! So we're on our way to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, and, uh, we took the subway
and we got off at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Station, and this is the exit to the station.
Like, it already looks like the hall. It's pretty nuts.
So, and we just turned the corner and, like, it's right there. We're just right next to it. It's pretty cool.
So, yup. It's just right here. Let me turn around, and we'll see it.
WA-BAM! Look at that! Oh man.
So cool!
Wow! Okay. So apparently, this thing here... is not even the real thing.
That's just the National Theatre, or something. The *true* memorial hall is over there.
Like, whaaaaaaat?
*Laughs* So crazy!
So there's the hall... That's the main... the main hall.
And then there's this big ol' arch... way... thing.
It's just... nuts. This place is so cool.
Oh my gosh. Okay, apparently I was wrong.
So that thing's the theatre... this is the gate... that is the music hall... Okay?
That over there is the real thing. This thing, over there.
And, it looks far from here because, uh... Or it looks small from here because the courtyard thing is huge,
but that is humongous. Oh my gosh.
Are you effing kidding me right now? Look how big this is.
Whaaaaaaat?
This place is hu-mon-gous. Like, okay, I finally walked all that whole plaza, and
this is the memorial hall. Like, huge. Huge!
Huuuuge!
Ugh, goin' up the steps... You can actually see a pretty good view of the plaza there.
Oh boy. Out of breath. *Laughs*
(Softly: Ooooh!)
(Silently: Cool!)
Time to go in!
Nice!
[Shoes tapping loudly at each step]
[Guns clanging at each movement]
[Shoes tapping loudly at each step]
[Guns clanging at each movement]
[Audience begins applauding]
Wow! So. Uh, now we're leaving the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. It was pretty awesome.
There was that massive statue of Chiang Kai-shek in there, and, uh,
we just saw the changing of the guards.
So there's always these honor guards that are sort of guarding the statue.
There were also some, uh, yesterday, at the, uh... at the, uh, Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall,
so we got to see, uhm, the changing of the guard there too. So that was pretty cool.
Uh, also, uhm, this is the fourth floor.
There's also, like, a whole museum and art gallery in there, which is pretty cool.
So, yea. It was a lot of fun. Uh. Leaving now.
I guess we're going to the first floor to get some food and also go to the gift shop, cuz, you know.
Every tourist... Every tourist trap has a gift shop, and we gotta go shopping all the time.
But yea, this is pretty awesome, like, I'm super loving this whole thing. So. Yea. It's pretty cool.
Also, uh, Chiang Kai-shek, his last name, uh, small tidbit.
Uhm, his last name is my last name, uh, even though we're not related at all. But anyway.
[Eerie futuristic music] [Announcer speaking in different languages]
David: *Fakes vomiting noise*
David: Yea it's a glass elevator. Oh my God. My ears are popping.
David: It went up to like, 400 something meters per minute.
Jenny: How do you ride this every day? David: Seriously. Holy crap that was fast.
Hey guys! So, I'm at the top of the observation tower of Taipei 101.
So, we took up the, uh, the elevator up to the 89th floor.
And... It's actually the fast... world's fastest elevator, which is pretty cool,
it's like 1010 meters, uh, per, I don't know, second or something? [Completely wrong]
Anyway, it's really fast. Uhm, but yea.
So, I'm up on the observation deck, and the visibility is kind of sucky today,
cuz it was sort of rainy and cloudy and stuff, but you can kinda still see some stuff here.
Ooh! Oooh! Ooooh!
So yea, so that's Taipei! *Laughs*
Yea, uhm, anyway, this is pretty cool.
Uhm, I don't know, it's a little... it's a bunch of shops and stuff. Uh, and a little bit of, like, museumy things.
But, yea, I don't know. It's pretty cool to be at the top of what used to be the world's tallest building, for a little while at least.
Anyway, uh, yup, I'm going to go catch up with my, uh, family over there, so I'll talk to you guys later!
David: Aww look, it's video! Cooooool...
Mikey: It's so cool. It's like an animated movie thing of what the view looks like at all times of the day!
David: It's only to the east though. Mikey: That's okay, it's still cool.
This is the Taipei 101 mascot, baby Damper!
[Small mechanical noises]
*small laugh*
Hey guys! So, there's this outdoor observatory on the 91st floor.
And you can't really see anything, but, uh, at least we're here. Heh. So.
And that's the very very very top.
*Small grunt* There. The very very top of the tower.
Hey guys! So, there's this big ball here in the middle. Whoa...
And, uh... Wait, Dave, what does... what does the ball do again?
David: It prevents the... building from swaying during earthquakes.
Mikey: Oh. How does it... how does it do that?
David: By centrifugal... I don't know. *Laughs*
Mikey: *Laughs* Anyway, yea, it's cool. This ball, like, makes sure that the, the building doesn't sway,
based on the, uh... because of earthquakes and stuff.
And the little Damper baby guy... Uh, oh, I don't think you can see that, but anyway.
The little... The little Damper baby guys are modeled after that big ball. So that's pretty cool!
Look! That's how the damper was swaying during the typhoon!
Oh here we go, here's a close up!
That's... that's the little baby damper, and this is the big damper! *Laughs*
Whoa... Cool.