Image of the Day .4
March 11, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Here is another image from Elephant Island. It’s Chris and once again, he’s impressing me so much with his images from our trip. The mothers were extremely shy and almost seemed to feel unworthy to look at us in the eyes. It was sad for us to see. I admire Chris’ perception of this and showing how he viewed their disposition. 
Image of the Day .3
March 10, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
One of our favorite parts of Thailand were the elephants. They were everywhere. We were able to see one taking a bath in the ocean early one morning. His care taker had lead him into the ocean and they swam and washed up. It was such a joy to see. Here is the “little” guy getting of his bath tub. We thought you might enjoy a part of the country like this.
Image of the day .2
March 9, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
We’ve been sick and dealing with jet lag. So please do me a huge favor and count this image as yesterday’s. Sorry it is a little late. This woman has been on the blog before. I just loved the wisdom in her face. She’s probably just in her 50’s, but the harsh sun and living has aged her.
Image of the day .1
March 7, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
As I am sifting through all the images we took in Thailand and preparing the images for our show later this month, I want to display one image a day. I am amazed by this one that Chris took. This is exactly what they all did when we arrived and we taking pictures. They all watched us as they peaked their heads out of their homes. I love the view of this couple that he captured through a window in their home. 
Home Safe and Sound
March 5, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Wow, the last 30+ hours were quite the whirlwind. We left Bangkok at 1:40am on Korean Air ( a WONDERFUL airline by the way) and arrived in Seoul around 8:45 am which includes a two hour time change. We were there and even though feeling horrible, still forced ourselves to get out in the city to experience Seoul. We checked our luggage, bought our bus tickets and headed out.Seoul is very clean, progressive and orderly, yet also eclectic and colorful. We really enjoyed looking around. We stepped off the bus to meet large snow flakes flowing freely. We are now having chills from lack of sleep and not feeling good from the flight before, tired, cold and wet. Yet we went on. We walked the streets some and then came to an area that a friend of mine recommended. Insadong. It’s a quaint little area with artists and vendors lining the streets. There were smaller side streets coming off this side street. We wanted to venture out and see if there was something on it. The road was very short and winded back. It had a few little restaurants on it. We went in one and walked right back out due to the smell.Then we saw what we were looking for this adorable little restaurant that looked like a cross between a little European cafe and a Korean kitchen. It was so little with three tables. All were a blonde color with shutters opening up to the little street and showing the snow. It gets interesting here because, even though we knew some Thai, we knew NO Korean. Ordering food was a little bit of an ordeal. We really wanted to just have them give us anything at that point. We were so wet and cold anything would have been fine. (I say that, but some Korean food scares me.) My friend had emailed me something to eat. I LUCKILY had my laptop with me and pulled it out and showed her the email. We wanted Bulgogi. It’s beef marinated in pear juice. Finally we had communication. Our sweet Korean waitress reminded me of a caring mom and she wanted to take care of us. She was even wiping our camera off from the snow that had melted on it.
Once we were able to order we were relived and she was equally excited. We ate and were content with our warm broth, meat and rice. It could not have been more picturesque. We then walked back to the bus stop and went to the airport.
The ride from Seoul to Atlanta was on Delta and we went over the Pacific Ocean this time. It was a good flight for that length, and we were able to pass the time away with many movies. We are now nursing our jet lag, and Chris is off running errands and picking up Asia. It’s wonderful to be home, but we are still dealing with some reverse culture shock. Here is a picture for you of me taking a break from the snow. Note the KT. : ) I was all over that country.
Here is the view out our little lunch stop. 