Seoul Latern Festival

A couple of weekends ago, on a very cold Seoul night, Rich and I went to the Seoul lantern festival. The latern festival was much more impressive than we thought - we kinda figured it was going to be full of small Buddhist laterns instead of large scale lanterns of people, places and events!

Same same

It seems to be the romatic thing to do in Korea for couples to dress the same, quite often when we are on the subway we will see a couple with the same hoodie or jacket on - Rich has even seen a couple with a pair of identical shoes. Sometimes you see couples dressed exactly the same with totally matching outfits which is a little bit weird.

You even see window store displays advertising identical clothes for men and women so you can dress up the same when you're together - although the matching underwear displays are slightly more weird (especially the time we saw matching men and womens liliac snakeskin underwear).

Our first "hike" in Uijeongbu

A couple of weekends ago Rich and I decided to do a walk in the hills behind our house - it was a pretty amazing walk and along the way we came across some old military bunkers as well as a buddist temple - only in Korea!

The decision has been made and Japan it is!

During winter Rich and I get two whole weeks off school and we have been wondering what to do with that time - there are so many places near South Korea that are easily accessible that it's hard to decide where to go and what to do! But we finally made a decision (I think!) and that decision is to head over to Japan. So far we have decided Toyko is the place to be but I also really want to go and see the Japanese snow monkeys but I am not sure how practical that will be in a trip of a week to ten days. Well I will keep you all up to date with our planning - I can hardly wait for our holiday.

11 November - Pepero Day!

Last week it was Pepero Day in South Korea? What is Pepero you ask? Well they are biscuit sticks covered in Chocolate a lot like Japanese Pocky if you've ever had them.

Pepero day has a bit of a Valentines Day vibe but you give Pepero to EVERYONE instead of just your significant other and everyone includes your teacher so Rich and I came home with quite a few boxes of Pepero! Here's a few photo's of the stash.

Hello! Cafe

Another weekend and another amazing cafe/restaurant in Korea! Last Sunday night Rich and I went along to an awesome cafe in Uijeongbu called "Hello!" so many pretty lights!

Uijeongbu by night

Here's a few photo's I took last weekend of the River at Uijeongbu at night.

The other stuff I made for the Halloween swap

So here's the remaining bits and pieces I made for the Halloween swap, a cross-stitched cushion, shrine, three zombie panda's and some softie zombie chocolates.

The rest of the Halloween craft swap

I've been really bad at posting the rest of the pictures of the items I recieved for the 13 days of Halloween stuff which is a shame as I recieved so much amazing stuff. It's a shame I don't get to open a new package of Halloween goodness every single day anymore. Anyway here's what I recieved - a long sleeved shirt with a bat print bleached onto it, cute Hello Kitty craft diary, goth stickers, super cut little bat clips, skull headband, skull wristband and badges, tiny toy chainsaw, brain box, gothic lolita Hello Kitty, "Goodbye Kitty"" skull earrings, black beaded bracelet, hand carved stamps (I love these!), blackboard, a pair of spats (I've always wanted spats!), a pair of bloomers which are awesome and finally a cute rockabilly skull skirt (the picture is awful but the skirt is amazing!).

Flight of the Navigator

Recently we attended a film festival and saw a childhood favourite on the big screen - "Flight of the Navigator" it was good to see it on the big screen and the story hadn't lost much of it's appeal over the years.

After the movie we weere about to leave when one of the usher's told us that if we wanted to stick around we could meet the director, Randal Kleiser and listen to him speak about the movie. Here's a photo of us two of us with the director and a model of the spaceship from the film.

Mexican Food, Norebang and Sci Fi Flicks....

Last weekend it was a friends birthday and he planned a weekend of fun stuff in Seoul. We started out by seeing "The Incredible Shrinking Man" on the big screen at the Seoul Family Film Festival which was amazing. I had seen it on DVD before and found it really compelling so it was even better on the big screen.

We followed up the film with lunch at a restaurant called "South of the Boarder"the food was amazing, it was the first Mexican food we have had in Korea and it was well worth the wait! They even made the guacamole at our table.

The original plan had been to go and play mini putt after lunch, however, it was a really wet day so we couldn't play. Instead we ended up going to play Norebang (like Karoke) which was great. We went to a "luxery" Norebang and had free ice cream and spent a raining afternoon in what looked like someone's living room. We got to sing western songs but none of the videos matched - instead they played random Korean music video's with the western songs.

We finished up the night with a few drinks at a "London Irish Pub" - yes that's right a London Irish Pub, it also had 1950's style American memoribilia on the wall which made matters more confusing and because it was Halloween night they has some interesting decorations up to celebrate - "Have a sexy Halloween"?