Nonsan Strawberry Festival

Yesterday, Hannah, Maggie, Alex and I hopped a train to the Nonsan Strawberry Festival. It was about an hour and a half train ride out of Seoul. It was a typical festival seen, tents with food vendors selling corn on a stick, fried goodies, noodles, ice cream, and so on. There were no strawberry fields nearby as we anticipated and it was 10 bucks to take a bus to pick strawberries, but you could only eat there, you weren't allowed to bring any home, so we opted out of that.

There was a strange and alarming section showing off animals in cages. Baby bears in a tiny cage, an assortment of birds, snakes, turtles, rodents, a wolf, and a donkey. The most baffling off all there were the 3 cages of house cats and the single caged area with two rabbits, a tortoise, a skunk and a monkey (which was on a very short leash). It was a pretty sorry sight...

Oh and I dressed in my strawberry skirt from a Halloween costume from 2 years ago, I couldn't resist! Maggie went themed too with her polka dot red dress and green sweater. We already got attention enough for that, but when we founded and added on the strawberry headbands, bring on the laughs, photo taking, and gawking. It was pretty funny in the festival, but in the bathroom at the train station after, I did feel a bit sheepish washing my hands with the line of waiting people's eyes on me. Oh my! haha. SO fun though!

Anyway, on with the photos!








Mushrooms!







Poor little baby bears.






Baking contest!!



Of course, cutesy characters abounded!





Entrance to a weird indoor display, underwhelming to say the least. lol.











Thanks Hannah for the shot!




Mags captured some random college students taking photos with me. hehe.





There was a little concert going on outside the festival. And by that I mean 2 old Korean men in flashy suits dancing and singing karaoke style here behind us.