I ❤ SPRING!!!
Flowers started blooming everywhere and tiny green leaves started growing on trees. Magnolias, Cherry Blossoms, ohhhh.... all so, so, so, so, so incredibly beautiful.
Coffee shops, boutiques, flower shops, gift shops all started putting pots of plants and flowers outside their door steps.
As much as I love Winter, I must admit it is really nice walking around without a coat. I wanted to take advantage of the nice weather and started going out as much as I could.
We headed out to the Cherry Blossom Festival at Yeouido. I came out a bit disappointed as there where soooo many people, you couldn't really take any good pictures.
There where a lot of street vendors, selling I guess local "snacks". Dried fish, squid, octopus, and what I just learned is Caterpillar cocoons... I wonder... How do you even come up with the idea of eating one of these, of turning it into a snack???... I know for people that grow up eating these, they must be delicious. I will not try it if I'm not forced to. To me, sorry to say, it smells and not like something yummy. : (
A picture is as close as I'll get to these! Not in a house, not with a mouse... I could not, would not try it anywhere!
I told you I'm no Andrew Zimmern... : )
I told you I'm no Andrew Zimmern... : )
As soon as I realized there was gonna be no good pictures I turned my focus onto people. It became a people watching day. I have NEVER, ever in my life seen so many people posing for pictures or taking pictures of themselves. Seriously, I took the funniest pictures of people doing the most hilarious poses. It would have been the funniest post so far. But... : ( the camera fell and I lost ALL of them. I guess it wasn't meant to be.... : (
To my surprise as I was walking to the supermarket the next day, (a new one I just found closer to my house) I accidentally walked into the most beautiful Cherry Blossom lined road! I was sooo happy. I felt so lucky, as if I got a second chance to take pictures! I didn't have the camera with me or Sean to help out, but I took some pretty ones with my phone!
Ohhhhh... the Azaleas.... so pretty....
I just found out trough my Instagram, there is a mountain filled with Azaleas. I saw this picture and I had to ask where was this place. Unfortunately is in Daegumsan Mountain and it is in Geoje. This place is actually an Island that's all the way on the South part of Korea, by Busan. It would be a 2 hour Plane or 4 hour train ride. Yeahhhh.... Since they would only be as pretty for a just a couple of weeks, I don't believe we will make it there, at least this year. I hope she doesn't mind, but I want to share her Instagram picture with you HERE! I have serious picture envy! : )
So basically I assume this is it for my dear Spring. Last weekend it was raining non stop. Then Monday felt like a Summer day, super hot. Today is raining again. In no time yellow dust arrives and we will not be able to walk outside for a while again... : ( NOT looking forward to this...
WTYS... : )
xoxo
T.
2 comments:
ooeemmmggggee...... it so pretty !! i like the photo u took with your phone . the streets looks so pretty to walk by with the flowers blooming heavily. where is it at ? am planning to visit seoul next year during this period of time .
Hi June! These where taken on what I think is Bangbae-Dong, Seocho-Gu. It's 2 or 3 blocks filled with them. Beautiful. I don't know the name of the exact area, as when I search it all comes up in Korean. What I do know is that it's in between a street called "The cafe Street" and a main road called "Bangbaero". Hope this helps. It was much prettier here, than at where they hold the festival in Yeouido. : )
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