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Goodbye 2009!

February 10, 2010 at 4:33 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Wow 2009 has gone and now we welcome 2010! I really miss 2009, it was the best year for me. Sorry, I havent been updating my blog. It’s just that I have been going places and too lazy to update and everything gets backed up and now I’m going to have a super long blog lol.

I went to Incheon, Insadong, Seoul Tower, Lotte World, Yeouido, Christmas dinner at Shawn’s, NYE at Jay’s and count down at Manhatten Bar, Changdeok palace, experience Korea’s biggest snow storm (and loved it!) and Suwon.

1. INCHEON - 14.11.09

On Saturday, Ivan, Hye Ok, Shawn, Erin and I went to Incheon for a little field trip to see the 5th longest bridge. We had lunch at a seafood place, a lot of seafood i haven’t eaten before. We also visit China Town which is opposite Incheon subway station. It was a cold and windy day but we all had fun.

5th longest bridge

China Town

Us having lunch at a seafood restaurant.

2. Insadong + Seoul Tower, Saturday 21.11.09

Dani, Shawn and I went to Insadong in the morning and at night went to Seoul Tower in Seoul. It was a really nice day. We just got to Insadong and we met a korean ( i swear she looked like Japanese) who was buying some souvenirs for her friends in New York. She’s a korean whose studying in NY. She was very nice, we chatted for a bit.

Afterwards, we went to Ssamziegil 쌈지길. This plaza has four floors of unique shops specializing in arts and handicrafts. Once entering inside the plaza you immediately notice that the floors are slanted and are like a spiral stairway.

Ssamziegil 쌈지길, Insadong

Then at night, we headed to Seoul Tower. We walked to the base of the tower and then walked around a bit and looked at all the locks with messages that couples left on the wall. Then we went up the elevator to the top of the tower. My oh my, the night view of Seoul was AWESOME! My camera doesn’t take good night shots, you just have to go there and see for yourself ^___^

Night view of Seoul from Seoul Tower

Seoul Tower

Just before we went home we went pass and saw the 2009 Seoul Lantern Festival was still on so we couldn’t resist and went for a quick look and take some pictures of course, hehehe. It was so amazing! We were very late catching the subway. I think we just made the last subway home…lucky! But it was an awesome outing ^___^

2009 Seoul Lantern FestivalHan River

Lanterns - People can write their wishes on the lanterns.

3. LOTTE WORLD, Sunday 22.11.09

Rick, Ken, Shawn and I went to Lotte World in Jamsil. Wow it’s like Disney Land for me . I’ve never been to Disney Land so this is the closest to it for me. It was another amzing outing with the boys. Lotte World was HUGE! There are 2 sections, one inside and one outside. We went in winter so the line for rides wasn’t too bad, but it was cold though. I saw the carousel used in the Korean Drama ‘Stairway To Heaven’! If you havent seen it and want to cry your eyes out then watch it, it’s a very sad drama.

The inside of Lotte World, with a gigantic ice skating rink right in the middle!

The gigantic castle on the outside part of Lotte World...Awesome!

Me and the boys (L-R Rick, Shawn, Ken, Me)

I checked Lotte World website before i left the night before and they had a really good discount for foreigners. We got 40% off our tickets! Awesome ^____^ Thanks guys for coming We all had an awesome time.

4. YEOUIDO, Saturday 19.12.09

A group of us went to Yeouido to celebrate Hye Ok and Shawn’s birthday. We went on the cruise around Han River, and had dinner at Seven Springs, a really nice buffet restaurant. I didnt take pictures of our dinner, I was too hungry to lol, we had to wait a ong time for our table.

Han River

Building 63 and Han River

5. CHRISTMAS + NEW YEAR

We celebrated Christmas at Shawn’s place. We all gathered and everybody brought a plate of food or cake. We end up having 3 cakes lol, we ate it all with chopsticks! We had chicken curry and rice, potato salad, chicken and corn soup, tomato and egg, sushi, cakes… and more but i dont remember. We met Dan for the first time, Dan found Shawn contact from Facebook and contacted him. He just arrived in Korea teaching English here. So welcome to Korea Dan! Shawn even organised a little christmas scavenger hunt for us (Dani and I). Thanks Shawn it was a lot of fun! ^___^

We celebrated New Year Eve at Jay’s place. We had dinner and then an awesome ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. We watched a a movie and then headed out to Manhatten Bar for the count down!

Ice cream cake

I had an awesome Christmas and New year. Thank you to all my friends who celebrated it with me ^___^

6. CHANGDEOK PALACE (2.1.2010), SUWON (3.1.2010) and SNOW IN KOREA

Dani, Scott, Kerry and I went to Changdeok Palace in Seoul. Changdeokgung was amazing! It was very grand and the snow made it even more beautiful. Shawn, Rick and Pat joined us after out palace tour since they didnt make in time for the tour.