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When the summer began, we visited the local well being resort and vowed to visit many more times. But it soon got too hot to go there and sip designer coffees. It's much cooler down south in Tongyeong, where Auntie, Little Samchun, and Ddori live, so we made frequent trips there and enjoyed traveling around the South Sea area of Korea. During one visit, Big Samchun and Big Auntie came down from Daejeon on their summer vacation, and we spent a few enjoyable days with them, all of us crammed into the apartment. In Sacheon, a nearby city, as the first photo in today's deck shows, we took a short break near a cable car ride. We were on our way to Namhae to see a famous Buddhist temple that sits atop a mountain. Kids like me couldn't visit the temple, so I toughed it out in the air-conditioned car with Ddori and Auntie while everyone else trudged up and down the mountain in the blistering heat. 🧠
Back in Yeongdong, during the day we usually stayed indoors to beat the heat and only ventured outside for very early morning walks.⏰ One morning we drove through the fog and went to the well being resort to take a walk. Preparations were underway for the 2023 Yeongdong Wine Festival and several other festivals to follow. We had the entire resort to ourselves and enjoyed strolling across the large plazas and up and down the hilly sidewalks. We were there too early to visit the cafe, so we brought our own drinks! 🥤
Not even a few weeks later we took another trip to Tongyeong. By then, the summer's heat had landed there, and even taking a stroll in my luxury stroller with it's air-conditioning vent became difficult. 😪🥱Mom always had some water ready for me, so the walks were challenging but bearable. Despite the heat, I enjoyed going outside as often as I could. Dad says I averaged 5 walks a day down there. There's more shade in Tongyeong than in Yeongdong, and Dad always found a great place to take me. One day we visited a museum in Geoje-do, a large island next door, and Dad and I posed with some soldier statues. On another day, near sunset we all went to an an oceanside park. Dad had just gotten a new Samsung phone, and he took the first pictures with it of me in the late afternoon sun and shadows. 🤳
We'd hoped cooler weather awaited us when we returned to Yeongdong in mid-September. Wrong. But Mom and Dad always do their best to keep me cool. I'm their prince, they tell me, and out comes the hand fan. 🪭What a wonderful life! 😉
Thanks for visiting my site! See you next time.
Tango 🐾
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