And yes, this is the start (hopefully, if I actually find the time) of a series of posts all about our Korea 2012 trip.
So Anna and I have always wanted to go to Korea for these top 3 reasons:
1. The 2012 Yeosu Expo – Ever since we saw the ad for
it at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. We told ourselves that we have to
visit Korea come 2012 because we loved our whole Shanghai Expo
experience.
2. Boys over Flowers – the Korean version of Meteor
Garden that Anna and I both loved. We’ve been to Macau before where they
filmed some scenes. We knew we just had to go to Korea to experience
more of the BOF phenomenon (even if it has been years after its first
showing).

The Korea Travel Team

I’ve discovered though that in adventures such as this, every person takes on a role for the trip.
Anna, as always, is the ever dependable one. She’s like that in all our travels. (Ariel has always been the comedic relief.) Ron is another dependable one (See? So much alike hahaha). Whilst I, well, I don’t really know what my role is in all these. I get everyone together? I don’t know honestly. Maybe I’ll ask them what I do in these trips aside from decide most times on where we eat and provide the conflict. Hahaha. Seriously though, when traveling, I like to just go with the flow. And being surrounded by so much seriousness can stress me out. Come on, we can sing “Call Me Maybe” while in the train!
The Korea Itinerary
Simply put – we didn’t have one! Except of course for the Yeosu Expo. The rest just fell into place along the way. We were booked and bound for Korea from August 1-8, 2012. Ang tagal! Hahaha. It was supposed to be August 1-7 but Anna accidentally booked us until 8. It all worked well actually as we were able to cram as much sights as we wanted to see without the stress of feeling too rushed because we were running out of time. Here is how our itinerary went through the days (somehow we managed to live day by day with the perpetual question of ‘Where do we want to go tomorrow?):
Day 1 (August 1)
Arrival at Incheon Airport early AM, transfer to Seoul, KTX all the way to Yeosu, brunch finally, rest a bit, check out Expo site.
Day 2 (August 2)
Expo site for the entire day, after hours outside the Expo
Day 3 (August 3)
Rest finally for the morning, lunch (this was one of my favorites), bus all the way to Boseung for the National Tea Museum (we love tea that much!), and our first McDo meal back at Yeosu
Day 4 (August 4)
Back to Seoul we went, tiring, lugging the luggage all around and up those stairs, checking out Myeongdong shopping (plenty!!!! Oh noes!!!)
Day 5 (August 5)
Myeongdong Cathedral, Seoul Tower, Teddy Bear Museum, Namsangol Traditional Garden, Namsangol Hanok Village, this shopping district that I forgot the name of, as well as this river where they featured performances (I should remember their names!!)
Day 6 (August 6)
National Palace Museum of Korea, Shinsegae Shopping, Paris Baguette (we wanted to try this out since we got there), Myeongdong shopping time!
Day 7 (August 7)
Heyri Artists’ Village (an entire day on its own), packing for home time
Day 8 (August 8)
National Museum of Korea, Samsung Museum of Art, last minute Myeongdong shopping, airport-bound, and home-bound finally
Yup, there it was, a crazy 8-day Korean adventure. Work disguised as a vacation disguised as work. At every moment though, especially during those times where we pause to stare at a design detail we really like, Anna and I look at each other and smile in disbelief and gratitude. I know she’s thinking exactly what I’m thinking during those moments because sometimes we say it out loud – we are extremely lucky and incredibly blessed to have even been there, to have ever lived, to have been in that moment, in this life.

Lol! :)) I'm not mad at you...i'm just laughing through all of it. Miss you Katsy! :)
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