170107 Konjiam Ski

since it's winter, we decided to give skiing a go before snow stops falling! so here we are at konjiam again. 00's friend ray was picking us up and meeting early, so we ran out without breakfast and i had to order it at the meeting place. for a random order, it was still yummy. mistakenly got an affogato ice cream instead of coffee though. whoops. there's always some surprises when you choose to order things with unique names.

i managed to go for more than 4 times this time!

we even went for the expert course. not bad! i'm starting to get the hang, and falling less often. but i still look awkward. skiing is still a strenuous and expensive activity so i really don't see myself doing it frequent anyway. while the guys went for further rounds i stayed at the side and built some little icemen.

you can't see the icemen? neither can i.

went for dinner after that with seong jun, ray and his workplace friends, who treated us. i basically have no idea what haejangguk is and his friend mistakenly ordered a share for me... so... uh...

i just drank the soup and didn't really eat any of the stuff inside. did try, but it was just weird. (basically it's all intestines).

i kinda missed the last time we were here for free staying at one of the rooms and just going for spa during summer, and we had convenience food for dinner. it was a lazy day but still enjoyable. i remembered we had like 2-3 rooms to ourselves. perhaps mr kong will get another voucher this summer...

150102 Pine Resort

there was a ski resort just 20mins away from eunhwasam, so we brought our ski gears and taxi-ed over.

skiing is definitely not cheap here, it's about 100,000won per entry and rental of the gears at 50,000 (even if you're just borrowing one part, they count it as a whole.. so either don't bring anything or bring everything!)

at least i didn't only rode twice this time. i went up the smaller one twice. and year i went up like this cos it was so cold.

then we took a break and went for dinner at the convenience store. it's located within the resort and there's nice snowy decorations there~

olaf makes an appearance!

resting! without all our ninja gears.

then we continued night skiing on the advanced mountain. up on the cable car~

these are the views from the top. it looks pretty flat but it's actually quite high up!

after another 3 more times, my knees couldn't quite take it but at least i was twice more efficient than the last time...!

we went home and 00 whipped up some dinner for us.

actually he only heated up that bulgogi stew that was leftover from the morning. oh and he scrambled some eggs too. hahhah.

and we ended the dinner with my favourite honey pudding! you absolutely have to try this if you're in korea. it's so heavenly. best pudding i've ever had *_*

Day 4 Konjiam Ski

walked around 00 house area in the morning and visited the dogs. man, their barkings are really crazy. within 5m, they start to charge towards you (but blocked by fence) and bark. with almost 10 dogs barking, the whole neighbourhood can be woken quite easily.

but still, because they are so beautiful, i want to touch them.

view of all the dogs! these are the little ones and the bigger ones returned and surfed a bit before 00 appeared around 10+ to take me to the office.

prepared our ski stuff~~! but the ski bag's zip went bonkers and couldn't zip, so we had to safety pin and masking tape it. hahahah so funny. we then set off to ski! was a 20+ mins ride to konjiam ski resort via taxi, and an hour ride by bus.

whee~~~ my first time at a ski resort, though i vaguely remember i've been to something similar to this before when i first came to korea with a tour group... but anyhow, first time on a snowboard!

had a bit of food before that. hotdogs are nice!

since it was gonna be cold, i was pretty much aptly prepared, so i didn't feel too cold in the end. HENG. we traveled by cable up hill, and 00 taught me how to move around on the board. actually we were snowboarding and not skiing. it was really super hard. T_T first, the boots were such that your ankle can't twist, and once you strap yourself to the board, there's a certain way to bend and you have to keep your legs apart all the time. and with all the gears, it was just too tiring to move around. and i kept falling, and couldn't get up without help.

you really need a lot of leg and hand power for this sport. i felt a bit sorry because 00 had to teach me all the time and couldn't enjoy snowboarding himself. wahhh. gave up and took pictures in the middle. HAHA. i'm quite positive i was sweating inside, so it was a relief to take off my beanie and goggles.

after like an hour and a half i finally managed to finish the hill. we stopped for a snack break at 9-11, then at angelius. then met some of his friends. they helped us take a picture here. hehehhehe. so professionally taken!

actually i thought we were done with the ski, but it seems we had to go another round!!! *gasps* it's ok, i can do this! and we did it faster this time, in about an hour. phew. still, my kneeeeees. oh gawwwwd.

oh and it was snowing slightly at the time we were about to leave. it was beautiful. it was like specks of lightly shaved ice falling gently. and i'm watching this with you.

we took the bus back to yong-in thereafter. boohoo i lost my inner gloves (that's right, my gloves were double layered). the bus stopped like in the middle of nowhere and my bladder was seriously bursting. thankfully there's a building nearby to relief myself. and there's an interesting mirror in all the cubicles, where it says at the top 'the person you are looking at now is the coolest person in the world'. hmm what an ego booster while you're doing your business.

finally managed to get on a cab and had dinner with some visiting members, nakyu and lunabelle. these young people make me feel so old. T_T they are so so cute though. and mr d-man and kyungmin keeps teasing them, making them clean up their food after we've all eaten. guess it's the senior-junior relationship!! it was a fun night! (",)

Day 3 Gangnam

woke up at like 12+. oops. kept thinking it was only 5am because it was so dark in the room, but because 00's friends kept buzzing him on his phone, checked the phone and realised it was time to check out.

went to get some ski stuff at gangnam. the total was crazy. i really like the jacket though. *w*

we then tried to walk over to gangnam and kept getting trapped. not a good idea to walk too much with shopping spoils.

we ate this very nice egg pancake thing at gangnam.

according to 00, gangnam has a lot of 'useless' things, such as pillar cameras. you can take photos at these pillars, and choose to send them to your email. i think they are pretty neat!

you can also put decorations, stickers etc and write on it. :]

since it was nearing the end of 2012, there were a lot of globes around for people to write their wishes on. i went to write happy new year too.

and of course, what's gangnam... without gangnam style??!

we were supposed to catch a movie but we ran a little late and missed the bus back. stayed on to have a bbq dinner, where we ordered beef this time. i personally prefer chicken since it isn't as fatty. oh god, good food is wasted on me. we then met lopez at the bus station, where he handed me this!!! realised i didn't take a picture with him T_T

kyaaaa!!! JUNKI-NIM~~~~ SARANGHAEEEEEEEE. it has my name on it it has my name on it it has my name on it it has my name on it it has my name on it it has my name on it it has my name on it
oh when will i be able to meet you!? i can't die in peace if i don't ever meet you!!!!