CONGRATULATIONS RYAN AND JES!

Congratulations to you on your OCTOBER 11, 2008 Engagment!

God Bless, and may your life together be everything you could ever hope for and dream for and more!

Jeonju Zoo Part 1

Jeonju Zoo is a pretty interesting place I had no idea what to expect given the fact admission was only 1,300 won is about $1.30 however I was surprised in a good way. This zoo is not like the Toronto Zoo at all.

Jeonju zoo is a mix between a petting zoo and a regular zoo. They have traditional animals from all over the world like Zebras and Elephants and pythons and stuff however they also have full display houses for chickens and goats. My guess is that the types of animals we pay no special attention to in North America and not all that common here for people to see in Korea.

My fav was the giraffe people were just walking up to the cage and feeding him apple and he seemed pretty happy about all that. He was one on my fav animals, others seemed kinda sick and dirty. The bears made me sad because there were like 3 of them in a really tiny little concrete room with nothing to do just look out the window.

But overall it was good. I feel down and sprained my ankle becuase the side walks were pretty bad however Asia and me falling over seem to go hand-in-hand and I am tough and can take the pain :)

Until next time God Bless and keep Praying for me!

The Museum B/Pusan

So one of the final attractions that I visited in the City was the historical museum. Korea has a very long history of well over 5000 years. There were many interesting artifacts collected through out many periods of history.

Around 500A.D. many early Koreans (or at least inhabitants of this region) practiced some very unconventional beauty procedures. Starting from when people were born they would have there skull compressed at the front because they wanted a flat large forehead in that culture this was considered to be the standard of beauty. There were some skulls on display of this flat forehead feature that were really strange to look now but were the norm during that period.

Also Korea was one of the first cultures in the world to create paper and so a lot of the meuseum was dedicated to the craft of paper making and early scrolls.

Busan Aquarium

The absolute highlight of my trip to Pusan was the visit to the Aquarium. Ever since I was little I have loved the water and getting to see the beautiful fish and sea creatures up close was so much fun.

One of the best things about this aquarium was that a lot of the species were collected locally. Korea is maritime culture and they have a lot of respect for the ocean and its creatures. Not much of the signs were in English however enough was in English that I knew what I was looking at. My favorites was of coarse the giant Sea Turtle, however I also enjoyed playing with the star fish and taunting the sharks.

When I first went into the aquarium there were no brochures in English so I asked this man wearing a Pusan Aquarium Polo shirt if he had any. Anyways it turned out that he was the GM of the Aquarium and had gone to Waterloo university he was very helpful and shared a lot of valuable information about the aquarium. Than he gave me a complementary ticket to the glass bottom boat and a chance to feed the fishes and sharks. What an amazing experience. If you are ever in P/Busan check out the Aquarium it is right on the beach.

God Bless.

p.s. I will post the trip to the cultural museum later in the week.

Busan/Pusan

So this past weekend I had a chance to travel to the Southern most tip of Korea a city called Pusan/Busan. It is called both becuase the actual name is Busan however in Korea Bs are pronounced like Ps. It s a very diverse city surrounded by high mountains with the Sea right there. Korea is not actually in the Pacific Ocean it is between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan. So the water in the second Picture is Actually the Sea of Japan. and that land mass in the distance is an island belonging to Japan. It takes about 45minutes by ferry to travel across the sea to reach the Japan Okasaka sea port from B/Pusan Korea.

The weekend I visited this city was very busy becuase it was the 13th annual PIFF which is the Pusan international Film Festival so there were all these big Asian Stars in the City this weekend. I saw a mob of people screaming and some guy wearing sun glasses however I could not tell you in the least who I saw or what work they did. Oh well! Somthing else interesting about B/Pusan is that they have just put in a bid for the 2020 Olympic Games to be held in their city.

While I was visiting I went to a large Aquarium and to a few museums and visited the beach I will have to save more picutures to post during the week because generally during the week things are fairly average and not much really happens. So I will say more about B/Pusan later in the week.

Until than God Bless!

Visiting Busan

so for the last few days I have been visiting Busan/Pusan it is in the southern most tip of Korea. There are many beautiful beaches and a huge aquarium. As soon as I get back to Jeonju I will post pictures.

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