Cherry Blossoms

After having heard so much about it, and seeing beautiful cherry blossoms blooming all over Ansan, Chloe and Sam decided to attend the Cherry Blossom Festival in Seoul. Korea is in mourning because of the sunken ship, so there was no festival with concerts and fireworks and airbrushed tattoo's and all that, but you'll still find trees blooming and millions of people around.

Yeouido is kind of hard to get to, but we did get to try the new express train, AND we found a sandwich shop when we arrived (FINALLY!). Chloe spotted the free shuttle bus, which took them to the 63 building, a very well known gold building that glows brilliantly during sunset and sunrise. We didn't see much going on, but we tried to explore. Our exploration ended rather abruptly when we found we weren't in a cherry blossom expo, but rather a gynecologists conference, AH! Back downstairs, we did find the wax museum and aquarium, but it was crazy busy so we avoided it.

On to the cherry blossoms! We walked to the Han river, passing under a bridge where Sam was

convinced he saw trolls. Well, think about it. They were living under a bridge, collecting things (garbage) near the big gold building. It just makes sense. We narrowly avoided being hit by tandem bikes as we crossed the path to the waterside. We found KFC on a boat! Really strange. You could also rent jet skis, and go on a cherry boat ride. Afterwards, we headed back to the walkway so Chloe could take, oh, about a million pictures of cherry trees. We checked out the vendors, and turned right back around when we hit the crowds and the bug sellers. Oh, speaking of vendors, they get creative sometimes. One guy was selling food off the back of his motorcycle!

We were feeling pretty hungry at this point, so we headed back to the sandwich shop we'd spotted by the subway station. It was a little french place, and had everything from club sandwiches to camembert panini's *mouth watering*! It was expensive, of course, but definitely worth it. Haha, and by expensive, we mean the same price as in Canada, or slightly cheaper. *sigh* Korean food is so cheap.

We took a slightly different route home, and ran into Katie and her friends. It's really weird how often we run into people we know, considering how many people live in Seoul. We made plans to go to Everland next weekend, which is touted as the best amusement park in Korea. So, while the Cherry Blossom Festival may not have been in full swing this year, we certainly enjoyed ourselves!

Beautiful trees!

KFC on the water.

Jetskis.

Cotton candy on a motorcycle.

And the usual, bugs to eat.