Spring is on it's way.

For those of you who talk to Joseph or I on a regular basis, you know the weather here has been pretty cold.... well as of April 1st it has FINALLY started warming up, so Joseph and I decided on saturday when it hit 55 degrees (which, yes was cause to jump for joy) we decided to take advantage of the weather on a saturday and walk around our fair Island once again. The winter kept us inside much of the time, but this will soon change in the coming months!

Here was part of our walk as we headed toward the stadium in Gohyeon. I love all the Mountains in the backgrounds, I guess I am still an Appalachian girl at heart.

Further down the path we came across some Apartment buildings far off the beaten trail, we headed up to explore and found a few cool restaurants that we may have to visit in the future.

The fence with the community farms (I think) there were many people out working them when we walked by that afternoon.

My new favorite flower... they have them everywhere, and they are the perfect shade of baby pink!


Also you can't mention flowers without saying something about the cherry Blossoms, this was the first of the start, now the entire street is lined with tiny pink buds, it is really beautiful on the walk to work,

And with any blog I try to include a fun story or tidbit, We came home from dinner out one night and stopped at the new 7-11 they just opened next to our apartment. We bought some water, pepsi, and a few various snacks to enjoy for the week ahead. We are walking back to our apartment and there is an odd glow coming from the car port area of our apartment, we continue to walk until we found there was a flaming bicycle....And no this is not some wacky drink or mis-translation, literaly there was a bike on fire. Being Foreigners we really had no idea what to do... And the odd part was NOBODY was there.... we were on our own with no phone, so we could not call the fire department, and no Korean skills so we really could not tell anybody. But this fire was big and getting bigger, it was melting the tires and smoke was filling the doorway to get into the building. So I went to knock on the Landlords door, Not home OF COURSE.... so I am all set to open the huge bottle of water we just bought and put out the fire. Joseph says " wait, lets get the trash can filled with water and take that out instead, that will have more water anyway" so we ran upstairs, and dumped all our trash on the ground and filled it up with the sink. We ran back downstairs and managed to put out the flames.

Now why is it that we have lived in that apartment for 6 months and NEVER once seen one of our neighbors, but the minute we are putting out a fire we didn't start with a trashcan full of water one of them happens to walk up and see us...

Nobody has said anything at work to us about it, so hopefully we are just some unseen heros.

Anyway, i got some pictures of the aftermath of the blaze the next day, I figured this would be a fun time to post it.

the remains of the seat.

Here you can see the burnt springs of where the bike seat used to be, that was the main casualty of the fire. The tire is burnt too... and the lock...

Enjoy, We just got back from a trip so I will try to update that this weekend.