Yesterday we went to Yilan (pronounced ee-lahn). This town is about maybe fourty-five minutes away from where we live in Taipei. We got an early start for Yilan at seven in the morning, but thankfully the first thing we did when we go there was eat dumplings (picture 4). After that, we headed off to a hot spring, but before we did that we stopped at a general store and I bought a traditional Taiwanese hat for about 3 USD (picture 3). At the hot springs, I got to see how hot the magma-warmed water actually was. At the actual spring itself (picture 2), you can see steam pouring out of the ground. The water was actually so hot that we were able to hard-boil eggs in it! After the hot springs, we were off to eat some delicious sweet pork and then go to a museum for Taiwanese Traditional Art. There we saw all sorts of cool things, including the traditional puppets (picture 1). All in all, it was a very cool day!