HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Well, I spent another Halloween in Korea and it was much the same as last year. Most of my friends all wanted to spend Halloween in Bucheon at Rhythm and Booze, so that is where I ended up. Thanks to my wonderful mom for sending me my Snow White costume, so I could be some thing decent this year for Halloween. Although the costume was great, it didn't survive the night and unfortunately, it has become destine for the garbage. Anyways, enjoy some of the pictures I took during the party.

Nick and Carolina had the best costume idea ever, a Korean couple. They did it perfect!!

The Witch and Snow White, this seems a bit ironic. Does the witch poison Snow White?!?!

Mrs. Doubtfire a.k.a. Rebekah and I take some time for a photo.

These are Yeonsu's best kept secrets. AND, you can see why...

Carolina, Holly and I are the three Musketeers.

Chris the giraffe lobes me a lot. I lobe Chris too!

Steve Eurkel even came to the party. As you can see nothing has changed.

Nick and I enjoying the Halloween party.

May eventually showed up to the party in Bucheon.

Caroilna entered the Halloween Fear Factor contest. She didn't win, but she sure tried.

Bianca, Spider-man a.k.a. Cam and I show you who's boss.

There was this super tall black guy at the party. I told my friend I could take a self-portrait of him and I in it, yeah, my head got half cut off and I only got to his shoulders...He was that tall.

Elton John came to the party.

Michael and I share a picture moment. I actually have no idea who he is, I just met him that night.

Rebekah dancing up a storm with the crazy Korean guy that was out of control on the dance floor.

May and Holly showing each other some love.

Holly and Rebekah close to the end of the night. As you can see Holly gave up on the witch hat.

Holly, Rebekah and I ended up leaving the party around 3:30AM and heading back to Incheon. We enjoyed some Reese peanut butter cups with the taxi driver on the way home. When we got back to Incheon we enjoyed some late night/early morning food at our favorite cheap little 24/7 restaurant before heading to bed.

Mama Cieta's Birthday!!

The following weekend we celebrated the fabulous Lindsay’s birthday. Holly, May, Lindsay and I headed into Seoul early on Saturday because we booked a hotel for the night, so we wanted to drop our bags off and then head out for some pre-birthday shopping and lunch. Our hotel was in Yeoido, so we took a taxi to Hongdae where we had some lunch and then we decided to be girly girls and get our nails done.

Lindsay, Holly and I enjoying our delicious galbi lunch.

We found this really great nail studio, so Lindsay and May got manicures, while Holly and I enjoyed some pedicures. We also got lucky and watched the final game of the K-league World Series baseball game, which was Incheon SK Wyverns vs. KIA Tigers.

Holly and I getting our pedicures.

When we finished in Hongdae we headed back to our hotel to get all dolled up for the night and to enjoy some wine and champagne. It was while we were getting ready that I watched the SK Wyverns lose to the KIA Tigers *chokes back tears*. Once we got all dressed up we headed to Sinchon for some Mexican food at On the Border and to get the party started.

May and I ready for the birthday celebrations to start.

The four us ready ready to party!

When we finished at On the Border we headed to Hongdae to get our dancing shoes on and continue the party.

Holly, Lindsay and I at On the Border.

Lindsay, May, Kristy, Nicole, Tahee, Myself and Holly enjoying our yummy Mexican food and margarita's.

Happy Mexican Birthday to Lindsay a.k.a. Mama Cieta!!

We went to Jane’s Groove because it’s always a good time, the music is usually good and the drinks are good. This is where the party really got started and most of us danced like there was no tomorrow.

Holly and I sporting our matching Boys Over Flowers necklaces!!

Look who came to party with us...BONG!! Love love love this girl.

Randomly bumped into Carmela at Jane's Groove. Now, that she has moved to Seoul I hardly get to see her :(

We randomly bumped into Chris in Hongdae. I love this boy, in a very non-couple kind of way.

We left Jane’s Groove and headed for some late night galbi before calling it a night and heading back to the hotel.

Sunday morning May left early, so Holly, Lindsay and I ate a cheap meal at a restaurant near the hotel before heading to Sinchon where we took the bus back to Incheon. It was such a great birthday celebration!!

Incheon Global Fair and Festival!!

From August 5th – October 25th, Incheon hosted the Incheon Global Fair and Festival. Basically, it was just a giant festival with exhibits set up from different parts of the world and loads of companies from Korea, plus many famous Korean stars performed at the fair as well. It took me until the second last weekend of the Global Fair and Festival to make an appearance (I teach in the area where it was hosted), but I finally did. Lindsay and I headed there the day after I went to Everland with Holly and her parents. We had no idea just how big the festival was and just how busy it was going to be. I even bumped into a few of my students.

We had to be given hand sanitizer and a spray down upon entering the fair because of Koreans fear of catching Swine flu. Once we past through that phase we started our adventure through the global fair of business and some awesomeness. Again, instead of typing every little detail, which will just bore you, here are some pictures and brief snippets about what the two of us got up to. Enjoy!

Welcome to Hollywood Lindsay!

I love New York, but I hate the Yankees.

Lindsay and I decided to go to Hawaii while we were there.

This African man was from Rwanda, one of the countries I hope to visit.

I loved this handmade African wood craft.

Me and the builder LEGO man!! We managed to see a parade.

This was the African float in the parade.

This was the float from Brazil and boy was it risque.

We then waited in line for over an hour to see some 3-D show about the future of Song-do city. The glasses were the best part.

There was an awesome garden there with flowers galore. I really enjoyed this flower display the most. The hand are reaching for the world.

We ventured over to the international area where I saw this amazing graffiti of 2PAC on the bboy stage.

The Trojan horse made it's way to the festival as well.

We also managed to find the beer tent, but neither of us were drinking that weekend, but if we had been we would have been there for a while. Instead, we just ventured in to check it out and guess who we should bump into, but Big Bang. I LOVE T.O.P.

Then we checked out the African exhibit and this amazing piece of art was in the entrance. Some of my favorite pieces of art come from African culture.

We also enjoyed an African tribal dance that had the Korea's in awe.

As we were leaving the international exhibit we checked out a bboy show. They were amateur.

The line for the robot exhibit didn't take as long to get into as the 3-D show and that's a good thing because we were disappointed.

This robot giraffe welcomed us to the exhibit.

A grasshopper robot at the robot zoo.

When we finished at the robot exhibit we headed out because we had spent over 4 hours at the festival and we had enough of the rude Korean people and the crowds.

On the way out we walked past some more flower displays. This elephant one was my favorite.

When we finished at the festival we had dinner with Holly and her parents because it was their last night in Korea.

A week of New Zealanders!

We celebrated Ncik's birthday in October with some ribs at the delicious rib place in Yeonsu followed by some drinks at Mad Max. Nick ended up recieving a 'Gus Train', which is about 8 or so shots lined up that you have to finish within a certain time limit. Let's just say it took Nick a very long time to finish the train. Happy Birthday Nick!

Holly’s parents came to Korea from New Zealand for a brief visit. John and Gail were amazing. I really enjoyed hanging out with them and chatting with them. I took a trip to Everland (Korea’s amusement park) with Holly, Gail and John. John was happy I joined them because he likes the rides and Holly and Gail aren’t the ride type of people. Everland always has a theme during certain times of the year, so because it was October and fall we got to enjoy a Halloween theme. Below are some pictures of our day at Everland. Instead of writing every little detail, enjoy the pictures instead.

Happy Halloween from Everland!!

Holly and I share our love, Korean style.

Then it was time for the family photo. Me, John, Gail and Holly.

Holly's dad, John made some Korean friends.

Can you spot me amongst all the Halloween decorations?!?!

Holly's adorably fabulous parents, Gail and John.

A stage decorated for Halloween and the amazing T-Express roller coaster behind it. John and I chose to ride the T-Express first before it got busy. We didn't have to wait in line, so we rode it twice in a row. Biggest wooden roller coaster in the world.

We were lucky enough to catch the Halloween parade.

One of the theme floats during the parade.

John and Holly rode the bumper cars more than once.

We visited the Everland zoo, which always makes me sad for obvious reasons. See the pictures below for the reasons why.

Since when is it OK to put lion cubs in a tiny glass enclosed container?!?! They are adorable.

Adorable squirrel monkey, looks like he wants to escape.

Holly told me that the wings of these birds have been clipped, so they can't fly away :(

The male tiger was awesome, but again, not the right environment.

The polar bears make me the saddest because first of all, they are suppose to live in cold weather and second of all they look like no one takes care of them.

Seriously, could this orangutan mother and child scene be any more adorable? I think not.

Chimpanzee's are the most closely related to humans by a whopping 95%.

Holly and I enjoyed playing with the awesome glasses in the gift shop.

Holly decided to get her hair done while we were at Everland. I think it suits her. We should have bought those fabulous glasses.

As we were leaving Everland I had to say good-bye to one of my favorite Korean boys, Lee Min-ho. We make a rather cute couple.

When we got back to Incheon we met up with some other friends and enjoyed some dinner with Holly parents before calling it a night.