The Last Few Weeks

So the open kindy's came and went for both Dawna and I... and we both did pretty well. Glad that's over with...

So saying that, here's another picture update. I expect to add a video tour of our apartment soon... possibly the weekend. Anywhere, here goes.



So we've added two new members to our house... two cute fish. This one goes by the name of "Andrea" (pronounced On-Dre-Uh)... or Smida Mida Mnida (we think these are Korean words).


This one goes by the name of Bargnani... or Himnida Mida Mida (again, possible Korean). So why Bargnani? Well, he's always got his mouth open.. always... just like Andrea Bargnani, of the Toronto Raptors.


See the resemblance?


A couple of Wednesdays ago, we went to Jinju to see the annual Korean lantern festival. The purpose of the festival dates back to I don't know when... but Korea was at war with Japan and Korea decided to put a bunch of lantern/boat-like things on the water... like hundreds of them. The purpose was to trick Japan into thinking that there were tons of warships on the water awaiting them... and from what we've heard, Korea won that war.


One of the lanterns.


Yet another "the most beautiful tea shop in the world" tea shop we stumbled upon.


This is where we had the, yet again, "best tea of our lives." Who knew that pointing to random Korean text on a menu could turn out so well in the end. We had something called "Song Leaf" (big time SP?) tea.


A shot of the festival at night.


More of the festival.


The busy streets.


The following Saturday, we left for Busan (or Pusan), the second largest city in South Korea... and it's only 40 minutes away from us! Beauitful, modern city for sure... we had a good time. Here's a shot of the beach. Keep in mind that it's not beach season, so it's not busy.


More beach... or as Koreans would call it... BeAChY!!!


Some of the beach ... and some of the city. The "PIFF" building you see in the background stands for 'Pusan International Film Festival.' It was actually the reason we decided to go down there... to see an international movie. The movie we got stuck with? 'Those Three.' Based in Iran, it's basically the worst-bag-of-, three-men-walking-through-a-snowy-abyss sh*t.


Found this one online. This is the same beach, but during peak season.


The streets of Busan at night... pretty nice!


So yea, there's a worthwhile update. We have some exciting stuff coming up, so yea, more updates... we (or I, Gilad) promise.

- Gilad


P.S.


This kid has the biggest head I've ever seen. I had to take a picture of him... he's pretty cute... in that "I'm so ugly, I'm cute" way.