Music Monday!

Group Name: GIRLS GENERATION

Song Name: TELL ME YOUR WISH

This one always makes me wanna move!

Happy Music Monday ya'll!

Have a great week, and remember to turn that radio up!

Sunday, funday!

Aaron and I were so excited to ride our new scooter around today, which is currently nameless! :( Any ideas for our little guy, or gal?!

Aaron came up with the name "LGM." Which he then clarified would stand for, "low gas mileage!" As you can see, we're in desperate need of some outside creativity... and let's be honest, every scooter needs a proper name!

Anyhow, He picked me up around 11:00am, and we rode, with the wind in our faces, over to the beach, which was covered in hundreds of excited elementary age korean kids who were paddling row boats, riding on speed boats, and being towed behind a jet ski on one of those banana boats! And it's worth mentioning that we had 5 hang glidders land next to us while we were there! It made for some excellent people watching! This was the last picture of our "funny faces beach photoshoot!"

After we had had enough of the sun, we decided to ride up to Democracy Park (a memorial for the soldiers who died in the Korean war) and have a picnic!

I love how we can go from the beach to the forest in 15 minutes by scooter!

As we were coming down the 137 memorial steps, we noticed that someone parked their scooter, which happened to be the same style as ours, right next to us! We quickly realized we were part of the club!

As a side note... our scooter holds about 3/4 gallon of gas, and it goes about 45 miles on 1 tank before it needs to be filled again! What a deal huh?! Not only does it get good gas mileage, it gets us lots of waves, smiles, and thumbs ups from lots of koreans!

We ended the day by scooting over to Da Daepo Beach to watch the spectacular nightly Fountain Show, but when we arrived, we were told it was cancelled for the night... bbooo. Our consolation prize was a stunning sunset over the water though! Can't complain about that!

About to watch a movie called North Face (Aaron won rock paper scissors, so it was his pick tonight!) Such a fun weekend... 4 beaches in 2 days, a new scooter, a mountaintop view of the city, a picnic, sand sculptures, screen golf, delicious cheeseburgers and coffee, all with my best friend, and favorite person to be with!! Life is good these days...

Sensational Saturday!

Every little bit of today was fabulous! It started with my internet guy coming over to install my new modem at 11:00am! This was fun because I haven't had internet at home for 5 days! How I survived, I have no idea!

Then, Aaron and I met up and rode the subway over to Haeundae Beach for the International Sand Festival! Sand sculptures a

nd sun bathers lined the entire beachside! (As I side note, check out the guy with the shaved head laying out... Where are his arm and legs?!)

We couldn't have asked for better weather today! There were blue skies and warm sand beneath our toes... Summer has finally arrived in South Korea!

These 4 guys built the castle in the picture above, and the US Capitol Building below! They were incredible, and very nice!

They said it takes a whole day to complete one sculpture!

I was inspired... what can I say... so I began to sculpt!

... and I made this fish!

After walking along the beach for a while, we headed over to my favorite burger place, for a late lunch! mmmm, cheeseburgers, how I love and miss you!!

We spotted this "donkey and carriage!" while walking down the main street in Haeundae...

After lunch, we hoped in a taxi and headed for Gwangali Beach! We stopped at the beachside amusement park (Sorry there aren't any pictures) and watched all the random rickety carnival style rides before walking over to the new 14 floor screen golf building on the beach! We're suckers for screen golf!

We played the Kiawah Island Beachside course... since Aaron used to work at the resort there, in South Carolina!

Aaron's big advice for the day was... "keep your eye on the ball!" I thought this was a perfect depiction of how well I listen!

His advice was so good that I ACTUALLY beat him by 1 stroke on the last hole!

Who doesn't love a good kiss at the end of a friendly competition!?

After screen golf, we walked along the beach and caught the bus back to our side of town. We had been talking a lot about how much we loved the scooter that we rented in Jeju and how nice it would be to have one to scoot around town on... So, we got off the bus 2 stops early to check out the scooter shops! We decided on a price, and that we would each pay 1/2!

We looked at quite a few, but weren't convinced... Then, a guy showed us this one and we couldn't believe it... It was EXACTLY the price we had agreed upon and it looked just like our Jeju scooter! We talked it over for a couple minutes, and wala... it was purchased! So, Aaron and I are joint owners of a brand new scooter! :)

We spent the next 2 hours riding around, all over town, and landed at a coffee shop in Nampodong where we shared a cup of coffee and "some yummies" and called it a night! It was definitely a marathon day - a fabulous marathon day, filled with good weather, great food, lots of smiles, and a brand new scooter to call our own! No more taxi's! YAY!

P.S. Don't worry mom... we both have helmets!

Big foot!

I thought I had big feet...

Hello big foot!

Togi has officially quadrupled in size since I brought her home 5 weeks ago! Now that I know she won't stay small like the salesman said... I'm secretly hoping she keeps growing and becomes a gigantic cuddly lap bunny!

Sorry Mom!

Dear Mom,

I know you say it's not nice to steal flowers from people's yards, but these roses are growing all over the place where I live... I couldn't resist!