Sunday, September 23, 2007

Suwon After Dark



Out our front door and down the street, past a school with pattering children's feet
Past the fish tanks with with live squid and shrimp, you'll find a mini Korean Vegas strip.




Japan-O-Rama



There is no such thing as a soft bed (or soft face) in Korea. Perhaps this is why they all have perfect posture. Jake got us a "thing" to soften our dreams.

We walked through an art park on the way home (background.)






We had a 2 day visa run to Fukuoka suckers! This is what we have to say about Japan: don't come back to Korea.







We rode the elevator up 136 meters. Does anybody else realize that the U.S. are the ONLY ones not conforming to the metric system? It's made things a little more hectic for us.




After we got back to the hotel we went out with some other whities to see what Fukuoka had to offer. We quickly found this lake and were lured in by these big paddleboat swans.



















There were alot of healthy people running around the lake and some flowers.




No picture could do this sunset justice. It was one of the prettiest we've seen in a long time.... Different from Hawaii, but still breathtaking.



The architecture in Japan is beautiful! They don't just make a bridge. The bridge is what makes the city.



Minutes earlier an upstanding citizen caught this million pound slab of street candy from rolling off the table. The other seventy-five people (including us) just watched the sculpture roll off the edge in slowmotion until Kim Doe stepped out of nowhere to save the day.

Home sweet Home





This is our shower head. As you can see, it hooks up to the sink and then there's a drain in the floor. If your bladder gets the urge to splurge, the toilet is super duper close.








































The first house that they tried to stick us in had a kitchen less than half this size. It was seriously 3ftX3ft (that's including the stove and the sink). You had to slide into it sideways like a secret North Korean passage way. This one, even though it only dreams of coming up to your waist like a normal kitchen, is still built for a Korean human in height and is a mansion in comparison. Our backs are already hunching, thank goodness for the correctional bed.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Korean style



We made it to Korea.... South Korea. Our first night we really needed to take showers after traveling forever. We bought some shampoo from a convenience store but couldn't read anything on the bottle. Upon opening, we discovered that it must be dandruff shampoo because of that mystical green color and the only English lettering on the bottle says, "Dantrol." Hopefully our hair doesn't fall out, but at least we know that we won't have dandruff.