Souvenirs from Seoul

A friend returned from her holidays in Korea, and brought back souvenirs from Seoul for me!

Gifts from Korea

I finally opened up the gifts that were given by the different organisations which we visited during the Korea study trip in July 2016. They looked really nice all wrapped up lol. Mostly electronic gadgets, why should I be surprised? :P

Power bank, SD card, thumbdrive, cardholder

Missing My Seoul

Guess this is the closest I will get to Seoul at this point of time. :)

Patbingsu!

Seoul Trip 2015 Updated! Finally

I have finally updated and uploaded all the blog posts on our Seoul Trip 2015. 
For the ease and convenience of your reading, here are the links for each day of our Seoul Trip 2015. 
Enjoy! 

Seoul Trip 2015 13 June 2015 - 21 June 2015
Seoul Trip 2015 Day 1 13 June 2015 Sat
Seoul Trip 2015 Day 2 14 June 2015 Sun
Seoul Trip 2015 Day 3 15 June 2015 Mon
Seoul Trip 2015 Day 4 Part 1 16 June 2015 Tues
Seoul Trip 2015 Day 4 Part 2 16 June 2015 Tues
Seoul Trip 2015 Day 5 17 June 2015 Wed
Seoul Trip 2015 Day 6 18 June 2015 Thurs
Seoul Trip 2015 Day 7 19 June 2015 Fri
Seoul Trip 2015 Day 8 20 June 2015 Sat
Seoul Trip 2015 Day 9/ Home 21 June 2015 Sun

My girls and I will definitely go back to Seoul and there are many places we have yet to explore! If you think there are some places which we should visit, leave me a comment. Thanks in advance. :)

Updating Seoul Trip 2015

I realised that I have only been back in Singapore for a week! But it feels like my Seoul holiday was a long, long time ago. Guess that is how overwhelmed with work I have been since I came back. :( Sincere apologies that I haven't updated on my Seoul Trip 2015. I have started re-organising the photos I took in Seoul as I tended to take 100-200+ photos per day. I shall strive to update my blog on the rest of my Seoul Trip 2015 by the end of the coming week. 
Thank you for your patience! :)

Seoul Trip 2015 Day 9/ Home

Our last few hours in Seoul. We are going home today, with much reluctance. :(
We woke up early and took our last walk at Insadong around 9:30am. We got a few more last minute souvenirs and our Starbucks fix - Iced caramel chocolate. :) I accidentally discovered the rice cake snack shop which I have been looking for and it is right here all these time in Insadong! Bought quite a number of rice cake snacks!

Lovely blue sky

The only Starbucks in the world with its name written in Korean language

Bizeun cafe

Rice cake - all kinds!

The backyard of the apartment - a fountain and a pavilion

Building 101 with 7-11, a restaurant and a few shops

Our apartment building with a number of offices here

The lobby area

The rice cake snacks I bought

We went back to our apartment for a little rest before heading to the airport shuttle bus-stop at 11:25am. The airport shuttle bus-stop is just 5 minutes away, opposite the apartment block and it's really convenient. The bus came on time and we were off to the airport at 11:43am.

We arrived at Incheon International Airport just before 12:50pm and by 1:15pm, we completed our check in. We went looking for food at the Concourse 3F and the first food place we saw was Bizeun, my favourite rice cake snacks! :) After stuffing ourselves full with rice cakes, we realised there's a Paris Baguette just a 100 metres away! Darn, should walk a little more haha.

More Bizeun rice cake snacks, some to eat and some to take home

Paris Baguette!

After we cleared the immigration, it was almost 2:30pm. We skipped all the duty free shopping as we weren't interested and went straight to our gate. On our way, we saw the Traditional Cultural Experience Centre and decided to check it out. Juliane ended up making her own traditional Korean mask while I ended up buying a pair of earrings. :P In between, there was a cultural performance of traditional instruments and we saw the Walk of the Royal Family. :)

At 3:15pm, we headed towards Gate 49 to wait for boarding at 3:40pm for our 4:10pm flight. We boarded on time and took off on time. :)

We both watched the movie, Into the Woods before we were served our dinner at 5:30pm, which came a little earlier than the rest because ours were special menu (diabetic meal for me and child meal for Juliane). Juliane's child meal was amazing - bread, tuna salad, chicken meatballs with minced meat and pasta in tomato suace, yoghurt, chocolate cake, drink, etc. Mine wasn't bad either, salmon salad, broiled chicken (very tender and juicy) and boiled vegetables. 

In our seats, one for the memory

The two Korean airlines passing each other on the taxi way

We are in the air!

Love the colours of Asiana against the vibrant blue sky

Snacks not long after we took off

A coke just for me - Mom!

Juliane's child meal

My diabetic meal

After dinner, we watched more movies and I think we both fell asleep as well. We were woken by the smell of food haha. A snack was served just before 8pm, one and a half hours before we land at 9:30pm. For once, we both thought the others' snack _ pizza slice looked and smelled tastier than our sandwiches. :P 

The flight was a very turbulent one, with the "Fasten Your Seatbelt" sign kept coming on all the time. We usually keep our seatbelts on when we are seated so it didn't bother us. But we both loved the turbulence, like on a roller coaster ride and we were giggling constantly. :D 
We arrived in Singapore on time and by 9:45pm, we were at Belt 47 to collect our luggage. The first time we did once we stepped out of the immigration was to buy a drink, a Korean brand lol.

We are glad to be home but we are also missing Seoul badly, especially the cats. :) We are definitely going back to Seoul again with Marieann! :)