While out holiday shopping one of the places my friend wanted to go to was Electro Mart. I didn't have a clue what it was, though I should have guessed. Electro Mart is a giant electronics shop that's seems to be a branch of E-mart. Only unlike E-mart Electro Mart is peppered with back story to [...]
After having lunch at the Alice Restaurant I didn't have much else planned. It had been suggested to visit Tokyu Hands for souvenirs, so I thought I'd give it a try. Tokyu Hands has a bit of everything, but also special hand made things that were somewhat cheap. I went to the one in Shibuya which was huge. [...]
When I was small, like super small, back when vhs and video rentals were a thing, our local Kroger use to sell movies and rent movies and amongst all the VHS's for sale I found "My Neighbor Totoro" and managed to talk my dad into getting it. It was the only copy, with it's case beaten [...]
Saturday our first stop was Shinsegae: The World's Largest Department Store. It's easy to get to from Centrum City Station off of line 2. It has it's own movie theater, amusement park, ice skating rink, golf course, and spa amongst all the shops and restaurants. Nathalie and I first went around the first floor to [...]
On our last day of vacation we went to Coex mall to check out the Kakao Friends store. Like Line, Kakao has a range of characters to help users express themselves. A cat and dog couple (Neo and Frodo), A radish/rabbit (Muzi), Con the evil scientist, Apeach (a peach brought to life by Con), Jay-G, [...]
Line Friends are the mascots/stickers for the Line app. An application from Japan for keeping in touch for free around the world, calling or messaging. They also have special features that allow you to add one of their official accounts to your chats that will translate for you and your friends. Super handy. There are two stores in [...]
Bolder Junction Wisconsin was the small town near where we stayed on Fishtrap Lake. So we drove into town for supplies, wandered around, went to events and shops. Bolder Junction is home of the musky, a dinosaur like fish. The gas station is also the grocery, which when we went was still in the midst [...]
The Renegade Craft Fair happens usually in early September in Wicker Park. It's a traveling craft fair. A person could spend all day looking at each of the booths, at all of the interesting wares. Because it's outside there tend to be several dogs out walking around with their owners and sometimes there are even [...]
