Korean Flower Girl

Claudia was asked to be the flowergirl for one of our Korean Staff members wedding. Here are some of the shots from the day.

Korean weddings are very different to Western weddings. First of all the whole thing, service and reception is over in 2 hours. They are not usually held at churches, but in Wedding Halls, where they have the procession of weddings. Each wedding party has the same decor and flowers and minister. It is still very special and romantic, just very different. I liked the part where we were leaving the wedding hall and the next wedding party was waiting at the door to come in.

Another interesting fact is that the bride and groom can see each other before the wedding and the bride sits in the Bride room and guests can come and take photos of her before the wedding. about a month before the wedding the bride and groom get dressed up in their wedding clothes and have their wedding photos taken then so the photos can be displayed at the wedding.

Another tradition was that the friends for the bride sing while they sign the register - so all the staff had to sing. It was fun.

Here is my little flower girl for you all

This is my favourite - the take another photo and I will kill you shot.

Happy Mother's Day!!!!

Happy mother's day to all those mother's out there. Here is a photo I took for Paul's mum and my mum for mother's day. We still have some spring flowers around. Enjoy this shot as I had to take 15 to get it right.

I had a wonderful mother's day - flowers, a beautiful silver necklace, breakfast cooked by Paul and lunch out at my favourite restaurant. Talk about spoiled. Before we headed off to church we took a mother's day shot. As I was editing this shot I suddenly realised how big my girls are getting and how alike they are becoming. I am truly blessed to have Emily and Claudia.

School Photos

We had our school photos last week - which I organised, let me just say it is a big job, which I am glad to see the back of! Anyway here are some of our shots.

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whew!!!!!!!!!!

Life just keeps getting busier and busier. I apologise for the delay in posts. It is quite depressing that I am still posting images from our trip with Mum and Dad.

This section is from our trip to the DMZ. Being an Aussie who is too young to know much about the Korean War, the most I knew was what I saw on MASH. So this trip was a huge learning experience for me. I am going to try to explain the whole DMZ idea, but if I get it wrong - I am sorry. Basically the DMZ is a section of land in Korea that seperates North Korea and South Korea. It was designed as a ceasefire line and has been in exhistence since the Korean War. It is a parcel of land and it is fenced off on each side and heavily armed and guarded. Basically the only people allowed in this area are military and those allowed to . You can do a trip up to an observation point and look into North Korea. My thoughts were - yeah so what. Well it was not until we went up there that I truly got what the hype was all about.

This soldier was giving us directions as we entered the DMZ. I had to sneak this shot in as I didn't want to get in trouble from the soldier.

Looking at North Korea through the barbed wire.
Mum, Emily and Dad with North Korea in the background

Claudia's thoughts on posing for a photo.

Oops!

Spring in the DMZ

The fenced off train line. The little houses are for soliders with big guns.

Sight seeing Korean style.

My lovely Emily

What a gorgeous couple!

Squid drying - supposedly it is a delcious snack.

She is just too cute!

Are you a pa pa pants man?

More Korean Travel

Well you only got part A of our trip into the East Coast of Korea. We took some time at Sokcho and explored all around the Sorak National Park - amazingly beautiful is the only way we can describe it. WARNING - a few mountain shots coming up - I have not editied these yet, so colour may be off a little.

Before you ask - yes it was cold, and yes that is snow on the hills.

It is supposed to be spring too!

As usual another very serious family portrait.

If you squint, you can see all the way to the ocean - well if the smog wasn't there!

We rode the cable cars to the top of the mountain - at $15 each person it was not a cheap trip but amazing. The view was spectacular. Let me just point out again - it was really, really cold and so windy. I kept worrying that the kids would get blown off the mountain.

Claudia thought it would be fun to dress up Grandpa in a few hats.

There was this little temple at the foot of the mountains that we wandered through. Dad the ever so respectful observer of other religions opened the door to the temple and ust walked in shoes and all - he couldn't understand why the ladies got upset!

No temple visit is complete without a budha photo.

All around the temple were these piles of rocks - apparently they are prayer mounds.

The first sign of spring.

See they do love each other.

No day is complete without a tasty Korean snack of chocolate hotdogs - yes that is right. It is a dagwood dog or a corn dog dipped in chocolate sauce and sprinkles - mmmmmmm - I can just taste it now.

This movie is a song all about life in Korea through the eyes of weiguks - foreigners