Korea Day 3
This is day 3 of Korea Trip. Like I mentioned earlier, we woke up at 6 plus to use the awesome gym. Every morning would be a mad rush for me and Cai would either be pacing up and down looking at the time or helping me pack my stuff because I would be getting ready..doing my hair, putting on make up and packing everything back into the luggage to move off to another place. It’s always crazy and stressful in the morning, but in an amusing way. I know I always make Cai nervous about us being late, but I’ve always managed to make it on time! Heh!
So , there you go. Me taking up my position infront of the mirror 
Our magnificent breakfast in the morning was western buffet with choice of korean dishes if you would like. Egg omelettes and smoked salmon seem to be the normal kind of thing u’d see in a buffet breakfast in hotels.
Goofing around in the hotel room
It was another long drive to Daegu. Along the way we stopped for an icecream .Singapore has the Prefere icecream from Korea at the price of $3.50. I have the privilege of trying that icecream in the original place, for a cheaper price of about $2 (1500won). I really really love icecream . It’s probably the thing I crave most for at anytime of the day.
Stuffing icecream into Cai’s mouth 
Cai bought this octopus strips with butter thingy. They taste pretty good, though this particular packet we got had a weird after-taste. The other one we tried in Everland was alot nicer.
The octopus strips look like this.
Korean Steamboat for lunch! Healthy and Yummy..except for the fact that it was PORK again 
Next up we went to a fruit farm to pick fruits. It happened to be the end of the strawberry season so we had the privilege of picking strawberries. Each of us were entitled to come out of the farm with five strawberries that we picked ourselves, but of course many of us cheated by keeping more than five strawberries in our bellies first before we emerge from the farm with five of them in our hands.
I have always loved strawberries, and I remembered once when I was little, I finished a whole box of strawberries and had a big diarrhoea. Being a forgetful person, to remember something like that must have meant that the incident was a traumatic one . But I know since then I’ve never tried eating more than 5 pieces of strawberries in one seating .
If you think the Korean strawberries in Singapore are good (if you have even tasted the Korean ones here that is ), then you would be so jealous of me ! Cos the ones in Korea, esp the ones I plucked, were heavenly- sweet. They were not only sweet. They were soft, in a melt in your mouth kind of way, and the juice is so refreshing!
The good strawberries are not the round ones. The long red ones are the best ones and it only happen for approximately a week during the beginning of the season. We were lucky enough to even get some of them when we plucked them
Cai getting high from strawberries.
Red and juicy!
The strawberry farm. Grown without the use of pesticides and that’s why we could eat them as we pluck.
I’m obviously elated from having tasted something so close to heaven.
We went on to a Korea Traditional Cultural Centre where we tried on Korean Traditional clothing, known as hanbok and we even learnt how to make kimchi, in the simplest manner.
Here’s Cai and WeeLeong, a fellow tour mate. Wee Leong is dressed as a king whereas Cai was dressed as a police officer from the old days.
This is me and Maybelline, WeeLeong’s girlfriend, who happens to be in my marketing research workshop class! How coincident!
They provided the backdrop for us to take pictures.
Me and the kimchi pots. Most households have this number of pots in their homes, and they are used to store kimchi.
Found a random bike and decided to ride on it.
Taking a picture beneath a traditional hut.
This is Mr Hong, whom me and Cai would call the ‘gayboy’ or ‘prettyboy’ between ourselves. His job is to take random pictures of us and he would sell the pictures to us at the end of the trip. But he was doing beyond that. He was really helpful in taking care of our needs despite the language barrier and he was most sincere and hardworking. I think I miss his teasings (in Korean). It’s really interesting to note that even though we don’t speak the same language and we could only guess what we are each trying to say, we could still communicate . Human communication is wonderful indeed.
This is Jacky the tourguide.
What we had on our tables before we began our kimchi lessons.
The finished product
Accomplished Kimchi master!!
Jacky making ‘jian bing’ (fried pancake) with kimchi that have been over-fermented.
Korean goodies like rice cakes, tapioca, kimchi…etc.
We retreated to our hotels early that day, which was a spa hotel. So we get to soak ourselves in health baths and spa like Wine Bath, Grass Bath, Herbal Bath and even Mud Bath. The catch was, we were supposed to get into spa NAKED. Before you guys think that you get to see naked women laying around for you to ogle, you’re wrong! heh.. The females and males are separated. Despite that, most of us were embarrassed. NONE of the old ladies went for the spa. Out of the three young ladies, only two of us decided to just go for it and immerse into the Korean Culture by baring our bodies.
As for the men ,they were more gungho. Apparently all the old men went down into the spa. Cai and Wee Leong did too!
It was a nice experience and the spa was really relaxing .But dont soak for too long cos the heat might make you dizzy like it did for me.
After dinner Cai and I decided to take a walk down a shopping street in the cool night air.
And this is me looking like a freaking eskimo where the koreans are like running around with bare legs and some of them even wore singlets!
And that concludes Day 3 of my trip.
Day 4 tomorrow!
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