free market+trip to a palace+drinks with friends and a drunk professor = a good day =D

So I started my day early as I had to meet a friend in the morning, and ended up strolling down to the playground outside Hongik Uni to have a look, on Saturdays they have stalls set up that anyone can rent. It was very chilled with some really interesting designs. I wanted to buy this one ring I thought was pretty cool for Ju but I still have to think about it, there are like 50 billion different rings around Seoul, seriously Ju you shouldn't ever come to SK! LOL
Anyways I manage to take a few photo's, of course I asked the stall people if I could =P

 This necklace had two sides the other was of a tree as well but in silver.

All the items are one off pieces.

 Some people didn't have tables so they just sat on hard concrete for 5 hours...no biggie. lol

 You may not see a playground in any of these photo's but I swear there is it's just tiny and not worth space lol

 Sign to show the free market. I scored some free stickers from one of the boxes on it, so who want's one? lol

 A fish lol

 Felt table!! Of course I got Ruby something from here ;)

Probably plan to go back there a few more times and slowly buy the place out =P
Anyways we had a field trip for photography class today and we went to Changgyeong Palace, which was a girly palace as one of my classmates put it lol.
It very spacious, my friend said that it was a great honour for the family of people who work at the palace, however you aren't allowed to exit without special permission and basically serve the royalty living in the quarters...how sad :(

So of course as it was photography class we had to take photos. The only criteria he gave us was shadow, which I later worked out while we were at a restaurant that when he said shadow he meant pretty much everything with light in the picture lol. I kinda figured but when he explained it I just did the good ol' smile and nod :P

So this is the entrance of the castle, and the very asian feel it gives off.

 A tunnel under a bridge around the palace, I figured he couldn't debate the shadows in this pic LOL

 Still in the palace but it leads to the eastern quarters.

 Was so excited to see a balloon, I thought it would catch wind and create a nice shadow...but it never did, stupid green balloon!! lol

 I really enjoy the different trees around the palace, they were really pretty, especially this one which I couldn't stop taking photos of. The downside was it was only sunny for a little while, so capturing shots that focus on shadows were a little troublesome.

 I'm assuming this was a shrine of some sort.

 Reflection in the mirror in an old school telephone booth.

 Sand and my shoes...I really should not have worn my really high heels, but for the sake of this picture I'm not too annoyed at myself lol, at least I can still feel all my toes, it was probably a better idea than the day I wore my flip flops in the evening at -2 degrees...my feet froze that night, in my defence the nights here are way more colder than the day...

 Lol I like this photo, my friend was jumping over to enter this small room. I don't think she realizes I took a photo, she'll get a nice surprise for next class ;)

 Couldn't go inside the room, I personally like this photo though.

 Probably some of the only leaves I've seen all this Spring season, cmon I'm waiting for you spring!!

Ok so this was pretty cool, there was ice on one of the streams and there was a crack in the middle of it.

Seriously where is your mum girl? Cos she seriously just hopped into the stream to walk on the ice...

 The moon was very bright this night. :)

I will finish off about the rest of the night on my next post cos I have to wake up early tomorrow so ttyl!

s2 Gari xoxo

P.S. ♥ Happy Birthday Sharon Pau ♥