Tuesday 19th April, 2011
I rode into Sum Yung Dong AKA Neon City for some cheap $2 dollar store shopping and souvenir shopping. I promised to get mum some little magnets hand made out of clay of little Koreans wearing their traditional outfits. I also went to the Daisio discount store and managed to pick up a few other things such as scarfs, earrings, cosmetic bags, lollies, biscuits, hairclips, nail polish and some makeup accessories. I absolutely love Daisio. It's a great brand, made to quality and cheap. They recently opened a big store in Sum Yung Dong and Jenny, Tiger, Emma and I went in there the first week they opened and spent around 2 hours browsing and finding unusual items.
At around lunchtime I arrived at the big markets and the area was buzzing with streets vendors, customers, school kids and foreigners! I had never seen this area so busy before. Usually when we go, the big markets only has a few stalls here and there doing business. But today, they had stalls over flowing on the streets and in neighbouring lane ways.
They were selling anything you could put a price tag on. Seafood, nuts, fruit and vegetable were a plenty. There was a lot of second hand clothing and fashion accessories. Sweets, socks, hair clips, plants and flowers. You could find everything you needed.
I loved every minute of it. The colours and smells and the noise and the hectic atmosphere. It was spring and the city was alive. I'm not sure if the markets are open every day or not, because from what I've gathered, most markets open when it's a nice day out. We have some markets across the street from the hotel and they're usually open on Thursdays and sometimes on Fridays, but I think now, with the weather warming up, they seem to be in operation on more days, but it'll be very random.
On the way back, I stopped to have a bit of a gym workout, but I wasn't really feeling it, so I didn't stay too long. I remember how excited I was at seeing the cherry blossoms in bloom, but now my excitement got even bigger! The TULIPS were blooming!!!! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE tulips and they look absolutely gorgeous lining the footpaths. The colours were so vibrant- a rich, lipstick red and very bright, sunny yellow. It looked like they had been painted, they were that perfect!
I'm truly loving spring here. People seem happier, I get to wear t-shirts and the flowers are blossoming.
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