hihi kev here's part THREE aka the finalll installment of my little korea series :') since coming home, i've genuinely thought about korea and how much i miss it at least once every single day.... sounds cheesy but i seriously felt like i left a part of my heart there :') i guess that just means i'll have to be back some point down the road. okay yea enough sap let's GAURRR
wednesday october 18th!!
jeju day 1!! we started off just walking around jeju city in the morning then got korean fried chicken for lunch hehe. then we went to gimnyeong maze to try our hand at making it through (spoiler: we did it LOL). after that we went to the manjanggul cave before heading over to snoopy garden (p much one of the number one things i was looking forward to in all of korea LOL). after that we came back to jeju city and went to the dongmun market before going on a lil walk to the seaside and spending the rest of our night watching this group of friends busk along the water! i nearly cried there bc i was so overcome w emotion randomly but more on that later lol
thursday october 19th!!
jeju dia dos!! we started off the day by going to aewol street for ~brunch~. so first we went to this french-inspired cafe and i just got some bread w olive cream spread that was actually DELECTABLE then we walked around the area for a while exploring the shops and stuff and enjoying the view off the coast before going to this seafood place for an actual full meal lol. after that we took a taxi (i specify this cus there's a funny story abt the driver to come down the line in this dump haha) to the innis free house / osulloc tea museum area to do some more damage to our credit cards and bought a bunch of skin care stuff haha- also had a lovely lil matcha set. the area was so pretty, lots of nature and there was even this string quintent playing in this open area!! after that we went to camelia hill which was also so beautiful but then the sun had set and it was officially time to head back to jeju city and catch our 8pm flight. here's where things get interesting tho LOL. so when we booked this flight i had done an 8pm flight and my cousin booked a 8:20pm flight which was fine cus we were both gonna be landing at gimpo w/in 20 mins of each other (we did the same thing when flying from gimhae in busan to jeju) so once we got to the airport we split up cus our flights were with different airlines. i go drop my bag off at the korean air desk and then head over to security to get to my gate and just as i pass through security, my cousin calls me and she's like 'sooooo the flight i had booked was actually for 8:20am not 8:20 pm so i missed my flight'. LIKE BRUH. lol so then im sitting at my gate giving her my flight's info to see if she can get on it and it was completely booked so then she started going up to all the airlines asking when their next flights to seoul with availability for one passenger were and there weren't any for the next FOUR days. same thing w ferry's. so eventuallyyyyy she was able to get on a flight to some other city near seoulish and then booked a bus from there to seoul but the catch is she still wasn't gonna be getting to seoul for another 2 or 3 days so i would've already left seoul/korea by then meaning THAT was how we said goodbye for the whole trip LOL. literally said see ya in seoul as we went to our separate airlines' lines and that was it. once i landed in seoul though it hit me that this was my last overnight night in korea so i quite literally was just walking around gangnam until 3am taking it all in :'). facetimed some friends back home for a good bit of my explorations that night to show them the sights haha
friday october 20th!!
after i got back to the hotel from my frolicking at 3am i decided it would be a great idea to shower then eat my last convenience store meal so i ended up only sleeping around 5am and woke up 2 hours later cus i had to finish all my gift shopping LOL ran around like a chicken w its head cut off around seoul all day starting off in gangnam where my hotel was then to the kwangya store then myeongdong before it was time to grab my bags from the hotel and head to incheon for my 6pm flight </3 my heart was quite literally breaking in the taxi to the airport as we rolled away from seoul but i was also so ridiculously tired at this point that i fell asleep in the car for a solid hour haha. flight got a teenie bit delayed but it was all good cus i made my connection in vancouver for my flight to chicago. there was actually this korean family taking the exact same two planes as me to chicago on their way to visit a family member that lives in america and i served as their translator through the entire vancouver airport cus we do immigration for america in canada LMFAO. then at the gate the airlines people had a bunch of questions for them and my single brain cell was operating on overdrive trying to translate to them but it all worked out lol. after the flight i helped them find their way to baggage claim and meet up w their family member who was their to pick them up then my parents picked me up and took me home <333
saturday october 21st!!
woke up in the afternoon cus jet lag got my ass and really just spent the whole day unpacking and relaxing. i did transfer all my data to my new phone that had been delivered while i was in korea and i packed up jessica and emma's gifts cus i knew i was gonna be hanging out w them the next day haha
sunday october 22nd!!
woke up mega late at like 1:30 in the afternoon (which messed up my roster for fantasy football cus the games had already started rip lol) and basically just raced into the city to hang out w jessica and emma and their other friend sam! they had driven up to chicago for the enhypen concert- i had no plans of going but then as we were having lunch and they were opening their gifts from me, sam (who i've never met before!) surprised me w a jay bracelet matching the ones she had made for them to wear to the concert. they'd been trying to convince me to go for a whiiiiile leading up to me but that gesture was so nice i decided right in that moment literally like a couple hours before the show that i should buy a ticket and join them lol. we frolicked around wicker park (my neighborhood in chicago) a lil after we ate just hitting some of my fav thrift stores and a record store then i decided it was finally time to buy my ticket when it was like an hour and a half before the show was meant to start and i just drove us back to their hotel for them to change and get ready (i was so last minute i just went as i was dressed HAHA) before heading over to the venue. i knew a good like half of their setlist so it was pretty fun!!
okieee finally finished w the korea dumps (only took three weeks of being back in america LOL) so i shall be back w regularly scheduled programming soon 😙
from: 4ever kebbie's wannabe bffie, tanmayi 💭
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