Last Weekend!

Still behind in my blogging - gah! One day I will catch up - not sure when though.

So here's a post about what I got up to last weekend - even though its now Friday again.

Last weekend I hosted a really lovely girly gathering at my place - a friend at work knows a beautician that "does house calls" so I invited a few friends over for snacks and beauty treatments. Fun!

Here's the snack table - I even made cupcakes for the big day. There were meant to be rainbow cupcakes, but it didn't quite work out. The most important thing is they tasted delicious. I had a manicure done - mine are the bright red nails (I'm the one wearing the Hello Kitty watch of course). Some of the other girls had henna designs done, so pretty. Next time I think I shall get henna too!



On Sunday Rich and I went for a walk in Central Park, when Rich and I first moved to Wellington this park seemed to be dark, gloomy and a little scary. That was part of its charm. It seems like the council has tidied it up a whole lot and now its lighter and brighter. Maybe I am just a little morbid, but I liked the old slightly creepy park better. After our walk we headed to Kreuzberg Summer Cafe for lunch - I really love this little cafe - its basically just a caravan, plants and some brightly painted benches in a parking lot. I think its such a great use of space and it feels a little like visiting someone's house for a barbecue or pot luck dinner. This is the actual "cafe" a caravan and if you look to the right you'll see the "kitchen" a guy cooking on a barbecue. I love it!
Here's our food - pretty good considering there's not a real kitchen. Rich tried to get a tofu burger but they were all out of tofu. Instead he had a haloumi burger, which he said was pretty good. I had a "Clean Brunch" - they call their vegetarian brunch their "Clean Brunch" and the meaty version a "Dirty Brunch". It was pretty good - I especially liked the beans. Although I did manage to spill some on my coat! Messy.

The weekend is now upon us again - it seems like the last week was SUCH a blur. Have a great weekend everyone.

A Sunday in Incheon

Last Sunday, Rich and I finally made it all the way out to Incheon, sure we have been there before but only to visit the airport.

We had heard good things about the China Town at Incheon and figured this was the perfect time to go and check it out, with the weather finally becoming so much nicer.

We left home kind of late, and it takes about 1 and a half hours to get to Incheon from Uijeongbu. So we didn't get to catch a ferry to any of the island's near the coast of Incheon (but I want to do that another day soon). Instead we just stayed in and around Incheon's China Town, which was a lot of fun. It's really a pretty and bustling place.

To start with we decided to check out Tayu Park - which is, according to the tourist map, the first western style park in Korea.

You need to walk up a whole bunch of steps to get to the park and I think on the way we saw a statue of Confucius. I'm not entirely sure it's Confucius though! Also on the way up there were some street sellers with goods that are so tacky - they are almost good!


It also has a memorial to General McArthur, which still has flowers on it after all these years.


Here's a few more photo's of the park - which don't really show how many people were at the park. The place was totally packed! But that's life in Korea!




Next it was time for adventures in China Town, we walked along some very cool Chinese murals to get there. I really loved these - they were quite beautiful.


Then finally - China Town! There was lots and lots of Chinese food and also a lot of street stalls.







Our final stop for the day was the Chinese-Korea Cultural Centre, unfortunatly it seems the most exciting stuff was actually on the outside of the centre!