Bye-Bye Santa Beach Pension

It's 1 p.m. and time for us to check out from the pension we stayed for one night @ Gyeongpo, Gangneung. We should have checked out at 12, but I already told the owner (주인) asking her as to whether we could check out at 1 pm since we got to pray the afternoon prayer first before going out. Happily she said yes and okayed us to stay one more hour.

Now..it's time to say goodbye to Santa Beach Pension and for the sake of capturing the memory (again...^^) we took some pictures in front of the house.

Freya and Eyra seemed to be so tired, but then...she became enthusiastically happy again when she found out that we're about to take the sea-train trip.^^

(to be continued on our journey on the SEA TRAIN on the east coast of Korea).

Gangneung Trip (part 12)

It's time to go to bed, but still the thought of sleeping at this rather expensive pension seemed to be the least expected thing to do.  

We just wanted to go onto the veranda and enjoy the rest of the night gazing the beach far beyond. But...we slept soundly eventually.

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THE NEXT MORNING.... 

We woke up at 5 ..hoping to get a glimpse of the sunrise from the east coast. 

The kids, surprisingly, woke up early, too.

and we're ready to see the sunrise.

Gangneung Trip (part 11)

This is our pension where we stayed for one night. Yup, we got to go through the darkness to reach into the place.^^ 

Santa Beach (산타비치) Pension is the name. It's almost 9 and we just got back from the beach^^Freya's still wearing her swimming cap and Eyra's clad in her towel. 

The reason we chose to stay in this place was its warmth atmosphere from the outside, not to mention that it is not from within, though. 

I mean, from the moment we laid our eyes on the pension via its website, we decided to book the place. And yes...in reality it lived up to what we saw on the net. 

Or was it because, we lived in a normal apartment that most people in Korea live in? that as soon as we laid our eyes on some place like this, without hesitation, our mind did the trick of 'wanting' to BE in the place like this? hmm I guess so. 

But..boy..we didn't regret booking this pension for our long-weekend 

getaway @ Gangneung. 

Uncountable clicks from our phones became the testimony of how we liked being there. 

In turn, we took turn to take some pictures. Oh, there's a secret as to how we achieved a rather-somewhat-close to the real atmosphere as seen in this picture. 

Since none of us were using DSLR, we exposed our face with the lights from the smartphone.  

In this picture, we asked Ulfa auntie to expose the lights onto our face so as to brighten up our face which then made us visible in the picture.^^ 

ooops...Freya, you're yawning. I know dear...it's late. 

Now, it's Mama and om Wawan's turn. 

Then, our turn. * We got help from the incoming lights of a car entering the parking lot^^ 

As for this one, this was using a natural light.

All in all, we kept on clicking the camera to 'capture' the moment and the real atmosphere of the pension's front facade.