DAY TWO
Day two was packed full with places to see cuz we sort of missed half a day cuz we couldn't get tickets to Jeju until evening.. by the time we reached it was too late to sight see.. so we visited many places and took many pictures (79 pics in this entry.. most from the Teddy Bear Museum.. to cute to not post them..) .. oh.. btw.. i'll be blogging about my Korea trip day by day.. cuz there are just too many pics.. 900 pics in all! obviously i'm not going to post them all lah..heh..
moving right along..
Day two started off with abalone porridge.. actually just porridge we couldn't really find the abalone... heh.. but either way.. breakfast was good the first morning.. by the 4 day i was starting to miss bread and strawberry jam!
After breakfast we headed to Long Tou Yuan this Dragon looking stone that was created after a volcanic eruption long long ago.. heh..
Can you see the Dragon?
on the other side of the little heap of stones is where the Korean Sea Women (have you heard of them?) catch their fish.. Its a long but dying tradition in Jeju Island where the women would dive to catch fish to sell.. nowadays younger girls don't want to do the job so when the older population of these sea women retire i guess then no one will do it anymore....... hmm..
can you see the buoys? that's where the ladies are diving..
and then selling their catch on shore! fresh seafood!
(and they eat it raw! have you guys seen how they eat raw octopus?wahahhaa)
my sis took this pic.. there was no road.. just rocks..
( more artistic pics from my sis later on..)
My Sis and I bright and early! eyebags and all.. haha..
(this lady in our tour group thought we were twins!! hahaa.. )
Daddy, Didi and I
Next we headed to the Fabel Land.. everything there has a story.. every rock formation every tree every stone has a story behind it.. the first one we saw was a wood carving of a couple.. apaprently they were married and the husband cheated on her with some cheap slut ( as always) and but then he fell sick and lost all his money, so without his health and without his money obviously the cheap slut wouldn't want to stick with him anymore lah! right?! common sense.. so he went crawling back to his wife begging for forgiveness.. and the wife being a good wife took him back.. the moral of the story? your wife is always the best, she will always stand by you through thick and thin... =) i didn't make this up.. this was what Michael ( the tour guide.. remember his name.. haha) said....... maybe he was the one who made it up.. i dono.. heh
The couple
Next was these two circular stone blocks on the floor, the bigger circle is where the guy stands and the smaller circle is where the girl stands.. a newly wed couple should stand on it with their hands behind their backs lean forward forhead to forhead and then kiss.. it would then mean that they would be together forever.. heh... if only it were that easy!
This is how its done
This is how my parents did it.. wahaha!
Just do it!
Tu Di Gong Gong rubbing his tummy
Family Portrait (missing my bro)
Our frame.. heh..
My cape!
heh.. cute right? the whole park is quite eery cuz its really quiet and so many stories.. hahaa.. although they are just fabels.. if there was no fire there wouldn't be smoke right? so there must have been some truth in them.. heh.. anyhow.. next stop the Crater!
This crater is a dead volcano.. i don't know what the correct term is.. but it used to be a volcano.. and then now its a crater.. aparently its really nice at the top.. but it was too early to climb up so high so i didn't get to see.. it would have taken me one day to climb to the top.. but my father and brother made it to the top.. only thing is.. they forgot the camera.. so no pics..... bah..
See? its so high!
mom and i lazed at the foot of the volcano.. wahaha..
the scenery there was just breath-taking.. i didn't even have to climb up..
Doesn't it look like it just popped out of a painting??
Look at how clear the water is!
A pretty flower
my sis and i with Tu Di Gong Gong again.. rubbing his tummy again! there are many statues of this Tu Di Gong in Jeju Island.. not sure why oso... and they are always rubbing their tummy!
after that.. we headed for lunch! guess what we had! Jeju Island's special black pork! it was really delicious and we were all enjoying ourselves until after lunch when we realised what the pigs in the olden days ate..... bleugh...... shan't tell you just in case you are eating at the moment..
Can you guess?
after lunch and after my parents blew off a few hundreds on royal honey and this 5 flavour tea ( which is spooky i tell you.. just by drinking the tea you'll know what's wrong with your body.. if you taste only sweet then you have something wrong with your digestive system, if you taste sour then you haven't had enough sleep.. i forgot the rest.. but a healthy person should be able to taste sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty) and ling zhi... we headed to the Tian Di Yuan Waterfall..
on the way there was a water fountain where you throw coins at the animal that represents what you desire.. heh.. we had fun there.. look what we did..
Me petting the turtle's head (turtle for longetivity)
And my sister picking the dragon's nose!!!! wahahahaha!
And then she steals from the bag of coins!!!
ahahahahahhaaaaa!!! angles are so funny!
here we are at the waterfall... quite small tho..
Family portrait
Another one of my sister's artistic shots of my legs..
we were on a humongous bridge.. wouldn't advice those with a fear of heights to go there tho.. my legs wobbled for awhile..
After the Tian Di Yuan Waterfall we headed to the place that i was looking forward to the most!!! the TEDDY BEAR MUSEUM!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you've watched Princess Hours (Goong) after every episode there will be a scene recreated by the bears! there is so much more than just famous bears tho.. there were bears that are as old and perhaps older than my grandma!haha..anyhow there are so many pics so i'll let the pics do the talking!
TEDDY BEAR MUSEUM!!
Many many bears!
Little bear town
Eskimo bears!
Holding a press conference
Mummy, da jie and didi and i with Uncle bear who owns a grocery stall!
Bear wedding (western style)
Baker making the wedding cake
And the couple!
Now, a traditional Korean wedding
Bears in Hong Kong!
Runway bears
Diner bears
And the Tiniest Bear on earth!
Now, on to famous bears!
Titanic! wahaha.. there's a polar bear on the ice berg!
Charlie Chaplin was moving too fast.. couldn't catch a good shot!
SUPERBEAR!
Tarzan and Jane
Elvis Presley
The Thinker Bear with my daddy and bro
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Michelangelo's The Creation of Man
Louis Vuitton Bear worth USD$ 193,000
Swarovski Crystal bear
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
Marilyn Monroe
Disney Land
The first bear on the moon..(heh.. lol)
The Beetles
My Fair Lady
Michael Jordan
The Reunification of Germany- breaking down the Berlin wall
Care bears!! mine is the green one i think..
and most importantly!!
GOONG!!!!!!!!
Shin and Chae Gyung in sch uniform
In their wedding costumes
Alfred
hehe.. cute right?? ahhhhh!! i'm still watching Goong.. i'm at episode 17! heh... anyway.. after meeting all the famous bears we were invited to tea with the bears! heh..
they drove us over to the garden for a picnic.. so sweet of them right?
Cake and BBQ as well!!
Then the papparazi came.. sigh.. hahaha!
I want one!
My friend.. heh..better not bully me!
after the Museum on the way back to the hotel for dinner we passed by the Mysterious Road.. the bus driver turned off the engine but the bus continued moving.. and we were going uphill!! amazing right!?! see all the water on the floor? that's how they experiment to see which way the water flows.. but you know what? it always flowed up hill...hmm.. the road is mysterious alright...
after dinner we went to walk around our hotel it which is where we found.............. ta dahhhhhh!
DUNKIN DOUGHNUTS!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh ( chorus music)
i don't understand why they can't open a branch in S'pore.. tsk!
strawberry filled doughnut!! my fave!
*DROOL* doughnuts.. hahaa.. *DROOL*
WOAH. that's all for day two.. see now why i have to blog day by day? if not i'll just die!!! so many pictures!! hahaaa.. anyhow.. day two was much fun!!!!!!!!!! =)
day three tmr!
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