i'm back!

from busan that is. wooo scared you a little, didn't i?

what did we do?
- went on the KTX train
- met relatives that i didn't know existed!
- experienced life without hot water
- went to the world's biggest mall (shinsegae)
- iceskated at a very sucky ice rink (not worth the $8)

this is how koreans protest

intense right? there were BILLIONS OF PEOPLE. okay maybe not billions..

waiting for our train to arrive

i think they're amazed at what an itouch is capable of!

yay! it came

the train on the left is the one we rode on

it's pretty long, eh?

this is what alivia and i did with our backpacks so no one could steal from us!

she's eating and we haven't even left yet tsk tsk

this is what i have live with for a whole month

but she makes up for it <3

do we really look THAT alike?

this was waiting for us when we got to my eemo-halmoni's house

doesn't that look amazing?

there are four siblings in this picture. can you find them?

does this help? (hint: the lady in the purple is married to the man in the brown jacket)

fine. i'll tell you the answer.



now this special man is the only cousin my mom remembers

HOMEMADE SHIKKAE. i die. 

the next day, we walked to busan shinsegae

we just need a little break from walking everywhere

THE BIGGEST DEPARTMENT STORE IN THE WORLD (there's proof in the guinness world record book)

well i went to google translator and it said it didn't mean anything.. . but apparently, it means good bread. do think that's right?

here's the sucky ice rink :) logan and lucas said the skates suck because you couldn't stop with them. also, they said the ice was really slippery and that there were ditches :/

alivia helped elise.. 

..and ella around the rink

dang look at that pro 

he's pretty pro too

if i ever own a store, i'm going to have sales just because i'm feeling happy too!

by the bathroom, there was a huge piano that you could step on and it would make sounds! like from the movie "big" (that's what my mom said. i have no idea what that is) 

the other side, the other side, the other side of the pacific ocean *BREATHES*

you see those cool tent things? people use them to shield them from the sun and stuff.. wait a sec, if they're trying to avoid the sun, why are they going to the beach in the first place? gosh..

that little part with all the houses kinda ruins the moment.. 

oh by the way, the water was indeed, freezing.

logan and his seashell he found. he kept saying everything he found was a rare rock.. elise and ella found tons of them

you just gotta take a picture with your korean name in the sand. it's pretty much mandatory

aigoo so asian

the kim clan

uncle james: they miss you lots!

whoa.. seeing double!

deep fried brown rice bbang. two words: DEE LISH.

these are pretty good too. they taste like the bread part of a strudel

just hanging around at sangmi eemo's parent's apartment

as we were walking home, we saw these beautiful cherry blossom trees

these pictures don't do it justice

going back home! err to eemo-halmoni's house

if you have a polluted mind like mine, you will understand why i put this picture up

honestly, i think korean mento wrappers are cooler than the ones back home

sorry for the random picture at the end. most of these pictures are in chronological order, which is why the mentos picture is at the end. yup. another post coming soon. oh and thanks for the comments guys. i feel the love