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A year in photos – Day 199

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Tuesday, September 11

Day 8

We flew back to the mainland on Monday night and headed out for a little road trip on Tuesday morning. We drove to a city about an hour away called Gyeongju. Gyeongju was the capital of Korea for almost a thousand years back in the BC days. It’s a beautiful city and it’s a nice place to visit because of all of the historical sites. It also has an incredibly beautiful Buddhist temple. By day 8 we started to get tired and didn’t take many photos, but I do love this photo of the 3 of us at Bulguksa Temple.

Trick Art Museum – Jeju Island, South Korea

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Monday, September 10

Day 7

Our last day on Jeju Island was a busy one. We knocked out two “theme parks” in one day. First, we went to the Trick Art Museum. It’s a great little place where you can become part of the art. I went to an exhibit when I first got to Busan back in February 2011 (click HERE for the photos from that trip) and Joni loved my photos so I knew if she ever visited I’d have to take her to the permanent museum they have on Jeju.

After the Trick Art Museum, we went to Locadio World. It’s a place where you can play dress up! I think it’s basically a TV show museum and they have different sets and allow you to dress up and take photos. You walk yourself through so we just kind of had to figure it all out as we went along. After the Korean section, they have an international section, too. It was a lot of fun!

If you click on the first photo, you can easily scroll through the entire set. Or you can click on photos individually.

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Day 197 – NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

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A year in photos – Day 197

I’m baaaaaaaaack!

Sorry (again) for the delay. My photos from Joni’s trip, Texas, Hawaii and everything after are spread out between two phones and about 5 memory cards from 2 different cameras. I think I’ve finally gotten all of my photos on my computer and organized so… it’s time to tell you about Day 6 of my dear friend Joni’s visit to South Korea.

Sunday, September 9

Day 6

If you’re easily offended (or at work right now), you may want to skip this post.

I would consider Korea to be a pretty conservative country. Teenage pregnancies aren’t rarely heard of here, showing cleavage is a huge taboo and some people even get offended by women wearing tank tops or smoking in public. That’s why it’s so surprising to know that Korea has not one, but several “theme parks” dedicated to… sex. Jeju Island is the home of Loveland, Korea’s most famous sex themed theme park. It’s full of large statues and works of art that are X rated.

Before I put up the pictures of Loveland, I’ll post pics of our “Happy Hour” that we had at the hotel afterwards.

We were lucky enough to be able to access the free happy hour at the hotel so that meant we could enjoy the view and enjoy complimentary drinks and dessert. We all sat around and chatted, and Joni was finally able to challenge Dave to a game of chess.

After happy hour was over, we went downstairs to have a few more drinks. As it turns out, the hotel had a drink of the month and if you ordered that drink, you got a free stuffed dinosaur. It was actually pretty funny because at first we didn’t know why they were bringing us stuffed animals with our drinks. We had to ask. But the drinks were fruity and delicious and as you can see, we enjoyed several of them. 😉

If you’d like to continue to the risqué part of this blog post, click to continue.

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