Enroute to Petite France

Spotted a BALI floating restaurant!! Yes, I was on a bus-ride that took us from Cheongpyeong station to Petite France.  

During a 30-minute ride, I was a bit sleepy but the sight of Chuncheon lake kinda woke me up and made me sober--again! 

The barren trees along the road seemed to 'ignite' my curiosity and drenched me into questions as to whether I had made the right choice of going to Chuncheon area at this period...thinking that the view must've been breathtaking--considering it'd been Spring time---or so I thought. 

But..never mind...the view of the lake itself was worthy of the price

 I paid for the trip alone.  

#Gee, I wished I could just remove those cables!!! 

#cables and more cables...seemed to obstruct the view. But, well..what could we do? After all, there IS an electricity plant near the lake. So???

Captured From The Garden of Morning Calm (part 10)

Well, as I have expressed in my other entries, flowers are (usually) not my kind of thing. 

So, having said that, any flower-related pictures are mostly taken by my wife. 

She's so frantically and easily distracted by any flowers--well, that attracted her, for sure. 

well, then..what about this? 

Eyra and Freya were so attracted to these inedible fruits. 

They asked me to pluck them out, though. 

If I'm not mistaken, they're called the ilex sparkleberry.

Garden of Morning Calm (part 7)

Some other people, in group or couple, were also having a relaxing time of their own. 

As for the kids, they started to run again.. 

But, before that, I asked Eyra to take our picture.
Thanks, Dear. 

Now a whole family pic.  

"Wait, Mom...what are you looking at?" 

We're having a chit-chat... 

Others were seen walking down and up the hills.

Yes, we got to explore other parts of the garden, too. 

But, first..let us take a rest here, first. 

A rest? I don't think, so. Freya and Eyra were rolling on the grass.

Well, they asked for it.  

They saw other kids did it, so did they. 

We're having a picnic, indeed.

A great outing, right, gals? 

hmm...Eyra seemed to be distracted by something.

Yep, there's a helicopter swirling above us. 

But, never mind..let's just have fun. 

We're making a short-video of us going round and round on the spot till our head's spinning like...very fast...enough to make us dizzy.

Garden of Morning Calm ( part 4)

we're going up and up...to reach ... 

the glass house that housed some plants..we didn't know what.

Freya, dancing, being the first to reach the top stair. 

While their Mom was still trying to figure out how she would continue climbing up.

we found an artificial water spring where the water would fall down 

forming a waterfall.  

A typical twisted-and-swirled branched tree of any Korean garden. 

Inside the glass house. 

it's warm. 

it turned out that we didn't find a thing inside. well, of course, there were. Mostly they're rocks or granite or any other rock with desert plants.

well, I am not sure either. 

we're back again... 

and walked across (another) artificial stream that seemed to be running out of water due to autumn...or was it adjusted so as not to waste the water from over-spilling or over-flowing? 

Another twist of trail, we ended up meeting another walk-up stairs that would lead us to...

Garden of Morning Calm (Part 3)

We went up to the stairs.... 

and viewed some parts of the park or garden. 

wished the whole trees at the back had already turned colors...-:) 

but, okay...at least we've been here. 

a panoramic view of the park. 

a zoomed picture of a park down there. we're already at the top of the stairs... 

a cool color, eh? 

These are the stairs we climbed up to. 

Freya, as usual, couldn't stay still and she'd rather go around by herself.

... 

and..looking back into the view.

A Trip 2 Garden of Morning Calm (아침고요수목원):Part 2

Now we're approaching the gate to the garden. But, first let us buy the ticket, first. 

It cost 8,000 Won for adult and 5,000 for kids.

But, of course, like many other places, it'd be cheaper if you come in group. 

Now..let's go. Eyra, Freya..are you ready? 

It cost us 26,000 Won (4 of us) to get into the garden.

well, I got to admit that't it's a bit pricey, but I hope that it'd be worth-the-won we paid for. 

Well, the trees haven't turned into that colorful autumn wonder, yet. 

But at least..we managed to be there. 

Let's take a picture here..before continuing... 

I guess the management did a good job of setting up the flowers of all colors so as to give the feel of autumn-like season. 

hmm my wife did take  lots of pictures of flowers.

I wouldn't take any pic of flowers. so if there are, it must be her works of arts. 

Freya just stopped there..and was looking at something. 

Oh, I see... 

That's what she's been looking at. 

And..the fact that kids could enjoy the view as well as learn a thing or two about plants, flowers, and stuffs....is more than enough to make this trip an enjoyable one.

not to mention...lots of things we'd encounter along the way. 

Now we got to go up the stairs that would lead us to...oh, well..