Coex Aquarium, Hooters, and my new baby fish!

On saturday we went to Coex Mall in Seoul and went straight for the aquarium!! Coex is a huge mall with many things in it. All in all, it was pretty fun! Here's the pics!

These two seahorses were "getting it on!!" well, until I whipped out my camera, then they got a little shy *L*

So, do you think the fish recognized me as their long lost sister? Okay, I'll work on my fish face,k?

This guy was sooo cute!! He was sleeping with his beak in his wings, but opened his eyes when I took a pic of him...Awwww.
Okay, I'm not being rediculous here, just imitating the scuba chick in the phone booth! hehe look carefully...

So, they had this fish "home" where they turned things from a house into a fish home. Pretty cool idea!

Ini the washing machine...

In the refrigerator!! If you could only see carefully, everything in this is fake, well except the fish in the middle...and in the drawr beneath the fish, there were fake dead frozen ones! It looked sooo funny.

There were tomato frogs and I thought their cage was pretty with the flowers in it.

So, this guy takes second place for my fave animal....this is a Pacman frog, isn't he a cutie?!

Told you that was his name! I wasn't lying *L*

Just follow your nose Tucan Sam!! MMmmmm, I miss Froot Loops....

A swarm or should I say school of beautiful fishies...

These poor fish!! HAHA Look at the jelly frows they have on their poor heads...Awwww, I felt sorry for them, so I took a picture.

So, this turtle really has two heads...just as I took the picture below, one head popped into the shell! What a little A-hole!

See?! Only one head...

These are just some monster fish! They kept getting bigger and bigger as the day went on!

Now, this is a tribute to my first fish that died....when I bought him, I thought the guy told me it was a "Crown Roach" fish...lemm tell you, we got a good laugh when I saw this!!! RIP little guy...

Just a view from a part of the aquarium...it had a really nice set up!

Look at me...I'm a leopard print stingray!! Now, how weird is that?

A look at all the different species tat were in this area...

OKAY, now he's my #1 favorite animal of the day!! Isn't he SWEET?!! AWWWW!! It's a porcupine fish (can you see the porcupine thingys on his head?), and man did he like pictures being taken of him. He wouldn't move from the glass...he was an all-star who won first place in my heart!
Okay, so I had to take another one of him...look at that smile!!

Beautiful fish of the Atlantic Ocan...sorry about the unbeautiful me in the pic!! Remember, I was super sick and sweating up a storm in my sweater...I had to purpously buy a t-shirt after to change!

I wanted to pop this kid's balloon...some scuba divers in the shark tank...

Look at me!! AAAHHHHH!!! Me and my ice cream are being eaten by a shark! Okay, so the little Korean girl on the left gives it away that it's not real...damn.

Ooohhhh, look at me and my ugly teeth...

Perfect timing, or what?! This is in the tunnel where you step on a conveyor belt and the floor moves for you...exactly what my body needed after walking forever and not feeling good...

Here's the tunnel....Well, I was actually trying to get a picture of this chicks outfit in the front...this leopard pring dress was horrid, and I wish u could see her shoes! *L* They were this pearly pink with some sort of seashells on them...she took first place for most horrid outfit that day!! hehe I'm bad...

OOhhhhh, you thought my brother in the other picture had bad teeth...well think again!! hehe

Just a picture at the subway station...they never turn out how I want them to though...You are literally packed in there like sardines and then everyone rushes out...Good thing I couldn't smell with my cold! Sebastien said it smelt like a farm in there....we felt like hurded cattle *L*

Notice anything wrong with this picture? *L* We were walking looking for a place for dinner and HAD to stop and take a picture of this one...

And this is where we ended up for dinner!! Hooters in SEOUL!! Before we got in, we were wondering how there could EVEV be a hooters in Korea...Well, these girls sure were rambuxious and about every 10 mins they'd put on a show and turn up the music....here they are dancing to the bunny hop!! hehehe It was great...

So, I woke up this morning to see these little "things" floating around in my fish tank...needless to say, my fat fish gave BIRTH!! AHHHHH!!! I seperated them into a homemade tank (well, it's a waterbottle with the top cut off) until she gave birth to about 15 of them...Crazy!
Now, I'm not too sure what to do with them, but I put them into another bowl and put the mommy back into the regular tank....it seems like she's getting eaten alive by the other two fish...poor girl. Any advice from anyone??

So, the aquarium was fun, Hooters was more fun, and my baby fish were a surprise when I woke up this morning!!
All in all, it was a good, yet relaxing weekend, even though I'm still feeling like poop. Take care and enjoy the pictures!!

Beautiful (AND CRAZY) Busan!!

So, our first stop when we got there was the famous Jagalchi fish market...I've never seen anything like it. From oysters to shark meat, it was there!! And so was the smell to go along with it!!

Are you hungry yet?

Here's the money shot!! hehe Octopus is eaten everywhere out here....nothin like buying it fresh,right?

Now, only Koreans could make a bridge like this....*L* This should be on one of those mass e-mail's that go around with funny pics in it!

Here we are posing at the pier near the fish market. It was a beautiful view...

So, this older man LOVED Sebastien! He was in the Koren War and spoke pretty good english. He entertained us for quite some time!

A nice view from the pier...


There were many boats to take pictures of....

This was the indoor part of the fish market...

Think they know they're gonna get eaten? Hmmmm....

Isn't this crazy? It went on like this for what seemed like miles! And the smell made me wanna hurl *L* I'm such a prairie girl....

Man, those would HURT to eat!!

This is the Tower of Busan at Mt. Youngdu Park....very popular tourist attraction (as you can see). U take an elevator to the top and look at the spectacular view of the city.

And here's he pics from the top of it!!

Happy Birthday Sebastien!! hehehe We went for coffee to this cute little coffee shop and they had this hat we had to borrow for a couple pics. He had a good day :o)

After coffee, we met up with an old counselor from our school who got transfered to Busan and went shopping in the local markets!! It was cool, and we even saw a famous Korean actor that everyone was going crazy over *L*

So, we took this double decker bus tour around Busan all Sunday afternoon. It goes to many destinations and you can get off whenever you want....another bus will be at the same spot in 1 hours time to pick up whoever is there. It was great and we always seemed to get the back of the bus....don't we look happy?!

A cool pic of the subway coming to get us!

Watch out Todd!! The subway doesn't stop for hitchhikers...sorry dude!

Here we are with our old counselor Kate. She's such a sweetie and was sooo emberassed when we wanted her pic in the middle of the street!! She said "Us Koreans don't take pictures in the middle of the street"...and I opened MY big mouth and said "well, us foreigners DO!" HEHE She shut up and took the pic.

A stop on our tour was the ever so famous Haeundae Beach. What a beautiful place where we splashed in the water and enjoyed the sand.

Do we look like tourists or what?!

Party ship!! Gotta do that next time we go!

Our last stop on the Bus tour was this pretty cool 2.4km hike down to a cliff where you could take awesome pictures. It was a long way down, and a longer way back up! When you start, you take this trolly up the mountain and get off at your destination...ours was this place, which I'm not sure of the name...

Cheese Kari!! Lemme tell you, that's a fake smile as those rocks hurt my ass!! hehehe

You see those specs over there? That's us!! It was VERY windy, so I'm always hangin onto my hat...

So, over this cliff, there was a tent set up where all the ajumas (older working women AKA tough Korean bitches *L*) were working! It was pretty chilly and windy and water was splashing everywhere on them!
A better pic of more ajumas working away...

A point of interest to stop on your trek down the mountain...It was really pretty

After an action packed 36 hours, we retired to the bus station for a relaxing 4 hour trip back home. Here's Busan train station at night...

Inside the KTX train...it was pretty spacious and comfy!! I had no complaints...

Here's Seoul Station when we got back home. It was after midnight so it was pretty dead...this is actually the most dead anyone will EVER see it!!

The never-ending subway station walk to the outside world....

So, we had a wonderful trip and I hope you enjoyed the pics. If I ever get my pictures working from my memory card I will be sure to post extra pics I took.

Love and miss you all very much....talk to you soon!!

Luv Kari