Happy Holidays !!


Well...after a near three months hiatus...I'm back online baby.

As ol Uncle Scrooge sits here listening to some Xmas Boney M music....I thought I would get one last one in here during Christmas Eve in Korea... kind of feeling like any other day...not really like Chritmas ;-)
So, here's wishing everyone a very happy holiday season to you and yours.
I am sad that I couldn't be back "home" in NS with Tara-Lynn, kids and family.
It certainly would make it feel a little more like Christmas !! ha TL

So as I gear up to release somewhat more frequent updates from the land of the morning calm...(Korea's motto) yah right!!! what with the carrot trucks adverstising their wares, circling the neighborhood, blaring with speakers mounted to trucks at 7 am!!

This entry will update those faithful viewers with a variety of photos taken over the past few months including my trip to Japan, Sweet potato picking with the kids and a Korean wedding, bubble and smoke machine and all.

So, as it were with this post, one of my first New Year's resolution is already checked off. Now onto the show. God bless and shout out to TL and her kind words last blog...thanks sis!!

Back to Japan...and a mysterious Kyoto temple rests peacefully at dusk.

Being purified by the holy trickling waters of Kyomizudera.

Contemplating on Kyoto's famed "Path of Enlightenment". If I was enlightened before coming, I would have known not to cart this umbrella around the whole day sans rain.

Practicing my fireball throwing technique like this funky gold sculpture...I AM in Japan after all.

Ahh the memories...back at the Reggae bar in Osaka!

My traveling mates Nick and Kim, getting acquainted to Nobu...the owner.. We had some good laughs going over old times and the crazy happenings in this very spot, even though my Japanese was a little rusty. Reminded me though...you really can never go back...things change.

I used to love coming out to Nara on a Sunday afternoon, so am back here to check out Todaiji, the biggest wooden structure to be found on the planet. Luckily no termites in ol J-pan!

Lighting some incense for good fortune from the Gods, in the only temple in the middle of Osaka...serenity surrounded by the constant hustle of Osakans...bring me a wife!! ha

Nick, Kim and I spend our last night in Japan circling the Osaka night skyline in Tempozan Giant Ferriswheel...you remember doing that together Mom, right?! "Oh, Trev, I don't know...I'm scarrrrred"

Is my head always in the clouds? Back in Busan, Glen,Claire and I enjoy the panoramic view afforded by taking a cable car up to Mt Geumgang...nice view as the leaves change.

Pickin taters with the dear little children...digging halted to a stop when one kid unearthed an unfortunate hibernating frog. It croaked. ha

One of the Korean Staff, Jessica, invited us to her wedding. She looked beautiful..although the custom of parading ALL the wedding guests into a side room to view her like a prize pig for all to see seemed a little strange.

Dressed up for the festivities...wedding's done..let's eat at the Outback Steakhouse...now thats MY kinda Korean food!

See ya nexy year y'all!!