A Little Trip to the Fremont Hood

'Sup, you!

     Finals are over, and our very own P took off to the Fremont neighborhood to check out what it's like. Too bad it's winter and she had to make the trip short if she wanted to get home before dark.

P rode on a no. 5 bus and missed her stop (for the umpteenth time), and so she ended up walking a few blocks. Don't be like her and make sure you know where to get off each time you ride the bus!

Anyway, she strolled around the N 35th street area, and got too excited wandering around. This part of Fremont was so lovely — antique shops and consignment boutiques lining up the street, with a fair amount of pretty cafés and yum eating places. Unleash the pics...

Theo Chocolate's very own factory!
(3400 Phinney Avenue North, Seattle WA 98103)

P saw a factory-looking brick building, and went for it. Apparently there's this pretty famous U.S. chocolate brand, Theo, and P just happened to stumbled upon their factory. Talk about luck!

Their chocolate bars come in fun flavors like sea salt and chili.
And notice those plastic boxes? Customers get to walk around trying different flavors!

A... packet.

Gotta get a few for the folks back home.

Moving on, remember the antiques mentioned above?

Old vinyl records! Those round black thingy that people before 2000s listen to? They're stocked in front of Jive Time Records.
(3506 Fremont Ave. N, Seattle WA 98103)

Right next to the vinyls, there's a small rack of reads from the store next door, Ophelia's Books. The place is tiny and used books are crammed into wooden shelves, the classic style. Even if you're not fond of books, this lovely store is worth checking out!

And then P smelled some nice stuff going on right across the bookstore (I knowww! The places are so closely placed one another), she just had to follow it.

Was supposed to take a picture of the 'Pie' store plank, but the cool frame was in the way and P didn't mind.

Yup, a gourmet pie place!

A 'Turkey Pot Pie', fresh from the oven! One pie is enough to make you full, but P recommends the English Meat pie for meat lovers like herself.

But remember that at the end of the day, the highlight will always be the clothes. There's a lot of vintage boutiques in the area, but the sky was getting too grey and P failed to take decent pics, hence the lack of photos...

Oh well, you get the idea.

Fremont Vintage Mall is THE ultimate vintage store in Fremont, we tell you!
(3419 Fremont Place N, Seattle WA 98103)

The vintage heaven is located in the basement. Cool walls, no?

Tweed coats, vintage leather bags, roller blades, John Lennon-style shades... the whole place is like a photo shoot set. P went here at the end of her trip, and it sealed the day perfectly.


There's more!

We'll be making some nice changes for the upcoming 2013! Castor Pollux, as of this post, moves to Google+ to store our pics, and we'll also be making changes to our header & layout soon. We might even come up with a logo! Are you as excited as we are?!

Drop your comments below and as always, thanks for stopping by to hear from us! <3>

That Summer

안녕!

How's everyone been doing? We sincerely hope you are doing well, wherever you are, whoever you are... Haha!

This post is kind of special. As we're typing this (well, one of us handles the keyboard, two people can't type at the same time on the same keyboard), we are already at Shoreline! In case any of you don't know, and trust us it is totally understandable since it's not a big city, Shoreline is a city of the North side of Seattle, Washington. It is a nice and calm small city, extremely different than the metropolitan Jakarta. We'll share more about our new life on the next post, which we don't know when we'll be able to post it due to our hectic schedule (have we mentioned we're college kids now? hurr to the ay!)

It's fall now in U.S, even though some parts of the country have already experienced snow. Particularly here, in Shoreline, the weather is toooo coooold! These days, everyday is somewhere between 5-15 Celcius! (We are still not accustomed to Fahrenheit) Although there's sun, the sky is mostly grey, making us miss summer.

Yes, this year we experience summer. No, by 'summer' we don't mean the everyday-sun that we always have in Indonesia. We actually get to feel the summer hype because we went to Seoul last June! A dream come true? Well... We may say so. Though we have been to Seoul once back in 2007, this time, this trip felt special because, oh you guys know this, we're both a huge fan of Korean music (or K-Pop, does 'Gangnam Style' ring a bell?)!

The trip was a BLAST! We went with our Mom, aunts, an uncle, and cousins, 8 females and 1 male. How's that sound? The suitable word would be "FUN"!

Hope you like holiday photos! (No? Don't scroll down...!)

The beauty of Jeju Island

A must-visit destination in Korea

In Jeju Island, Teddy Bear Museum can't be missed.

Louis Vuitton-ed Teddy Bear,

is claimed as the most expensive Teddy in the world, obviously

A labyrinth can also be found in the island.

From the entrance, try to find your way to the center of the maze where you should ring the bell to announce your success, so much fun!

Hiking, on our way to Namsan Tower!

Namsan Tower a.k.a N-Seoul Tower

Not as high as we imagined when we saw it on Korean dramas.

The famous keys of love ♥

So many keys that they make trees of keys.

More Teddys at Namsan Tower... Koreans seem to love Teddy Bear a lot!

We were that far from home???

A part of Seoul

Our very own love key!

P drew the three siblings LOL

 

Myeongdong area, shop, shop, shop (that explaines the lack of photos, eh?)

We saw no american-style clothing's, pure korean-style clothing which screamed "pretty"! We found it was so hard to not spend all our wons here.

 

 

Random pictures that P managed to (secretly) snatch during our visits to random stores at COEX Mall

 

Dongdaemun Stationery Market

A hidden heaven of cute pencil case, pens, notebooks, dolls, toys, you name them!

 

   

Coffee stop at Dongdaemun after walking in and out of the alleys at the stationery market under the blazing sun.

These two people caught too much sunlight.

Another cafe stop in one day, this is Cube Cafe.

A very famous cafe among K-pop fans, as it is owned by an entertainment company and the 2nd floor is the singers' practice room.

Patbingsoo (Korean shave ice) Cube Cafe style

There is no way we went to Seoul without fangirl-ing.

We went to the local TV station to watch the live recording of a very famous music show where we got to see many singers.

A-Pink!

The most rising Korean girl group. C and our cousin got to attend their 'fanmeeting', it was an event where the singers met the fans to answer questions, chat, take picture, etc.

Samgyupsal a.k.a three-layered meat.

Super delicious and was one of the most unique eating experience! Grill the meat, put it on the lettuce, also put onion and kimchi on it, wrap it, dunk it in your mouth. Don't forget to slurp the miso-like soup.

Officially declared as our new favourite food!

"Tosokcan" Samgyetang,

is often named the best chicken-ginger soup in town.

A bowl cost about 15,000 KRW and it tastes...superb! The long queue of hungry people outside the traditional-themed restaurant told us how good it was.

"When in Seoul, do as the Seoulites/Seoulers/Seoulnians (?) do."

And that meant, dinner beside the Han River. We had Seoul's Pizza Hut pan pizza and coke.

Thanks to Lee Eunji who taught us this!

The pretty lady is Lee Eunji, our kind friend we'll never forget!

No, we haven't visited all the good places in Seoul, namely 'Idae' (Ehwa University area) and Hongdae.

That's why we plan to come back again... Soon!