Turning 21!

So I guess let me start out...I turned 21 this month! Yaaay! What did I do on my birthday? Well it started out with a birthday dinner...at Shanghai grill but as soon as our food arrived one of my husbands soldiers called because they got into a car accident. She was also one of our friends so we had the waiter put our food in "to go" bags and got in our car and drove straight to Daegu to see what happened.

Luckily she was okay, her car was a bit beat up and the other lady who was at fault kept blaming it on her but long story short we left for Daegu at 6pm...and didn't leave until about 8pm. By then we were so tired we decided to post pone my birthday celebration. Fast forward to a week later and we figured we would try to celebrate my birthday then, I invited a few friends and just my luck that they couldn't make it...well rather decided to do something else (Long story) but anyway one of my friends was able to make it! 

So we all went out for dinner at TGIF and it was soooo amazing and delicious! The strawberry Daiquiri was to die for. So about an hour later we decided to venture on to maybe some bars...well as luck would have it we met one of my friend's (The one with us) friends who happened to be photographers and one of the photographers wife was german. So I tested out my horrible german and low and behold she completely understood me.

So then we started talking in full blown german...it was kind of neat! But my goodness I forgot how fast you talk when you speak your native language. I remember saying "Sie sprechen sehr schnell! (You speak very fast!) so she slowed down a little and it helped me a ton! So we talked for a few hours and by the time we were done talking and walking around we had forgotten all about the bars and drinking and were so tired we went back home, picked Tanya up from her baby sitter and all went to bed.

I know, I know, I'm such a party animal! However a few weeks ago we had a blast at the Daegu park! So of course I had to practice my photography which I think is getting a bit better.

 It was very beautiful. We even got dressed up a bit haha. On the right is Justin and on the left is his friend...

And of course I got dressed up as a princess I think...i'm not quiet sure but it was pretty entertaining and not to mention alot of the Koreans were cracking up.

Tanya also had a blast! Except it got really hot so we had to leave after 2 hours because we were all sweating to death it seemed. Then this week a friend and I went to the playground with Tanya and her little boy and they had a blast. I took this opportunity to take some nicer photos of Tanya.

That's about it for the past 2 weeks. :)

Gumi, Seoul, Osan, Exploring and Russian food!

So since I havn't wrote in my blog for two weeks I've got to get you updated on 2 weeks worth of events...both of which included exploring.

1.) 2 weeks ago we went to Gumi...granted we've been to Gumi before but mainly for shopping and not exploring nature. It was beautiful. Waterfalls and everything.

2.) Last weekend...we went to Seoul! It was for 24 hours only but it was great!

Anyway, we will start from 2 weeks ago. We and our friends were bored so we decided to head up to Gumi and apparently they knew a nice mountain to go, so we figured...why not? We LOOOVED it and I got some amazing photos!

 

  

So Gumi was definitely a huge hit with exploring and finding new places to go! Then the next day we went to this thing in Daegu that the Army was holding for "Children month" which was fun!

 

We got our faces painted and everything! Tanya didn't enjoy her face being painted on this time. She was still pretty good for it though! Then we got to see some martial arts and after that a Talent show! 

After that we went to Motorcycle alley in Daegu!

Then came the trip to Seoul! First off we left the day we planned it for...so naturally with our luck it poured non stop for the whole day. Then using our GPS for Seoul it got us lost and took us about 4 hours to get there instead of 2 1/2-3 hours. However there were some amazing sights while driving there!

 

 

The photos above are photos of  Korean rest stop looks like. It's amazing how nice and huge Korean rest stops are! Justin even tried some octopus balls...ewww haha.

 Finally after what seemed like forever we actually got to Seoul. We rented a room at a motel...Apparently motels are mainly used for "sex" in Korea so when Justin went in to get the rooms the man asked if he was with another man or women (Sexually). Anyway Justin was a bit annoyed that the guy pretty much asked if he was gay haha. Then when our friends and I walked in to see what was taking so long he looked at us all shocked and says "All 4? Together? One room" to which one of our friends replied "No...2 separate rooms...we're not that freaky haha!" Honestly we couldn't stop laughing about it for the next 24 hours! So then after we got situated we went back out to Seoul to see what we could do. We were hungry so we drove around until we found a Russian restaurant!

 

 We all had some amazing borscht and the guys LOVED the Russian beer! Haha. Then we headed toward a place called the Justin bar...Justin insisted haha!

After that we continued looking at different places!

We continued visiting other places but gave up on our camera's and taking them everywhere with us so we put them back in the car and continued to venture on! The sights were amazing...the people were hilarious and sweet and it was just so different from Waegwan...or even Daegu for that matter! All in all we had a blast!! :)