Life in Korea: Trip with mom

Hi everyone!

Long time no post! (again, sorry :( ) I've been....lazy, sigh I know, I promised myself I would write a lot but..yeah. So sorry :'(

Anyways, before I start my main writing, I wanted to spoil you guys with some photos that I took from date with my parents ;)

(on the way to Gangwon-Do!)

(황태 / dried pollack. Passed by lot of these on the way to the sheep farm)

I mentioned about a day trip with my mom on my last post - I went to Gangwon-Do to check out sheep farm, but we arrived 30 minutes after they closed it. UGH! I was hoping to walk around the farm and get hungry, but oh wells. We decided to come back when weather gets warmer and headed out to 횡성 (Hoengsung) to eat dinner. Hoengsung is known for beef. Mmmmmm.

(OMG I'm drooling again...)

IT WAS SO GOOD! IT MELTED IN MY MOUTH! I want to go again :( I don't know where each part belonged to, but it was some special areas near ribs or something. It was expensive, but worth it. Thanks mom for buying awesome dinner for me :P
We went to 찜질방 (jjim-jil-bang, sauna) after dinner to get sweaty. House was made of mud so it was interesting. We stayed for over an hour and went back home.

I also went to 노량진 수산시장 (Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market) 2 weeks ago at night with parents because I (sort of) begged to go lol, oh and dad wanted to go out for dinner. We arrived around 7:30pm ish and walked around the market to see what it looks like. We only passed part of the market because a lot of places were getting ready to close down.

(mmm fresh seafoods :D)

Dad wanted to buy some shrimp and shells to eat at home. Price was pretty cheap too! 24-26 medium-large shrimps for $14 dollars? It's a deal!

(shrimps!)

(left: they were SO BIG! / right: it's called bamboo shells or something like that)

After we walked for a bit, we went to a restaurant to eat some sashimi and other seafood. It was kind of pricy, but all seafood are pretty expensive, so we expected to pay the amount, but oh man, there were SO MANY SIDE DISHES and they were so good!

(these were pretty good but not as good as food above. mmmmmm =9)

I don't have all pictures, but I got SO FULLED. Oh, I had hard time eating one in last picture because it was fried fish...so I just ate tiny bit and gave up lol. I ate lot of sashimi and other seafood. I got stuffed (and didn't gain much weight thank goodness)

So these were what I did while I was gone. Other than these special dinner, I've been having regular schedule: exercise, work on some stuff, tutor, go to church and hangout, and etc. Oh yeah, did I mention I joined praise team? I sing now...I'm not that good, but the leader is teaching me how to do harmony and stuff. I'm thinking of learning an instrument! Not sure if I'm really going to learn for sure or not, but I'll let you know once it's decided :)

hehe.

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So, why did I write 'Day 1' on subject? Because I'm on a 5 day trip with my mom! My mom is on a break, so we decided to go around 남해 and 통영 (Namhae and Tongyoung.)
Before we left to a trip, we had to finish laundry, make soups and kimchi fried rice for dad (so he won't get hungry,) pack, get some stuff from market, and stop by hospital to get treatment for my muscles. I have muscle sore on my thigh muscles since last November? or somewhere there, it's been awhile but got worse, so I had to stop by it. We left Seoul around 1pm, which was way later than our plan, but oh wells, gotta finish stuff before I relax and enjoy right? xD

Anyways, Namhae and Tongyoung are supposed to have nice areas to visit according to my mom, so I'm excited for tomorrow :)
We stopped by 3 rest stops and arrived safe :D