Taiwan layover

We made it Taiwan! We left San Fran at 1 am on Tuesday and arrived in Taipei at 5am Wednesday morning. There is about a 16 hour time difference. And it was like a 12ish hour flight.

Since I flew United to San Fran and then EVA Air to Korea my bags had to be transferred so that I would not have to leave security in San Fran. I was a little nervous that this would not happen. When we landed in Taipei there was a EVA Air employee with a sign with my name on it and I could not understand the problem but he needed my baggage tickets. He copied the numbers on to his hand and then left. I never knew what that was about. Then, as we were walking by baggage claim in Taipei (we had a 12 hour layover) there was one bag still on the bag carousel from our flight and it ended up being one of my bags. The handle had broken and the airport baggage tag had fallen off! Luckily we walked by and saw it or my bag would have been lost forever with no airline tag id! I am still crossing my fingers that both of my bags will be in Seoul when we land there tonight!

Today, we left the Taipei airport and decided to see the city. But since we landed at 5am not much was open yet! It was 77 degrees when we landed at 5am with a high percentage of humidity! We found a Starbucks for me and then a small restaurant/cafe to get some breakfast. At 11am we walked to Taipei 101, one of the tallest buildings in the world, and walked around in it.

It has been an eventful, exhausting and fun day, we are back at the airport at our gate and the ticketing agent looked up my bags and said they made it on board, I hope she is right! I am ready to get to Seoul Korea and sleep in a bed, not an airplane!