Monday, April 12, 2010

Cherry Blossoms

I did absolutely nothing special this weekend except take some pictures of cherry blossoms which i will share.





Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Nurimaru APEC House

Last weekend, we stopped in Haeundae to go to the beach on a day the weather was decent. We were already out so I didn't bring any trunks so I didn't go in the water instead we walked to the Nurimaru APEC (Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation) House. I am not completely interested in the trade agreements between countries, to be completely honest I think it's pretty boring. But the walk from Haeundae to Nurimaru was completely worth it. There was a nice wooden walk way that was a border from the rocky shore and nice forested area. A bonus was Nurimaru has some nice architecture and although looking at pens and pieces of paper about some trade agreement is pretty boring I did enjoy the overall environment of the building.

The ocean from Haeundae Beach
Mermaid Statue out on rock.

For some reason I like the look of these big natural rocks.

As opposed to small artificial rocks.

This picture is almost the same as the last one... Almost

The kid in me wanted to cross this bridge more than once.

But I didn't so I just took it's picture a couple of times



There were signs saying "don't worry about the smell of rotting flesh it's just this plant"

They actually didn't smell that bad, until later when there were a lot more of them.


Some more big natural rocks.


Sometimes I think the picture is self explanatory, these were fishermen out on a rock.



This old guy was singing or chanting or both

Nurimaru

This is the first thing you see when you enter

Conference table for all of the participating countries

And the ceiling

And the observation rooms


I actually saw this before going into the APEC House but it was a better shot leaving it

Some walkways at the Exit.

Some trees

Some more trees

The end