JAPAN AND KOREA VLOG my husband's first trip to tokyo, a week in my life in seoul, bookstores
Dear passengers, we have landed at Tokyo International Airport the local time in Tokyo is 9:45 pm. Hi there, just back from Pilates and I'm setting up a movie that I've been meaning to watch...yes here it is, here it is. Polite Society. It's on Netflix, I've heard good things about it so I'm going to watch that. This Vlog should be pretty fun because in
the middle of this week we will be heading to Tokyo. I said it in my last Vlog but I'm not quite sure how much I'm going to film because this is 100% a Kurt production - I have made no plans. This will be my maybe 7th or 8ty time in Tokyo, it will be Kurt's first so I've handed him the reigns for this one. But that's really what's going on. Welcome to the Vlog and let's just have a cute little movie night so let's watch Polite Society~ Also my friend just opened a vintage shop on Instagram so I bought some things and I'm going to show you what I got. Also the movie was wacky but I still recommend if you
like martial arts movies? Here's the label with her precious puff Mongi - we love him. I think for this I'm going to put a white T-shirt under it but it's a little silky yellow fun little apron looking top. I might take out the shoulder pads for this one...good morning good afternoon good evening. Little cats. I might even bring this to Japan actually. I love the little sleeves. So that's that - I even got a note from the CEO. All right now I'll see you tomorrow!
Hey this is where I get to tell you that I actually didn't speak at all while I vlogged so this is just going to be a little montage of our 4 days there, our three days there and we just had a really wonderful time and it was so nice to for the first time in my life really just kind of be the passenger princess on a trip and just wander around. I really only helped figure out like transportation and stuff like that yeah it was just very relaxing very chill. We're very thankful that we got to take this trip and I hope you enjoy~ Hi everyone very quick checkin. I know I haven't spoken but this is our second full day. Kurt has been calling all the shots, the weather is perfect, we thought it was
going to be a lot more crowded than it was but it doesn't feel much different considering that it's Lunar New Year and it's just been fun to kind of explore with eyes that are not mine. So right now we're in the middle of the like food and like kitchen district? I've never been around here before. Overall it's just been it's been really fun, so sorry that I haven't checked in but I'll catch you guys guys later! And hello we are back from Japan. Thank you guys so much for watching even though I didn't speak. It felt very nice to just kind of record without constantly talking to the camera. Yeah that was Kurt's version of
a Tokyo trip - had a lot of fun and before I dive into what we're doing today, I have a Japan haul for you (mini haul) but first I just want to give a shout out to the sponsor of this video who made our trip to Japan possible which is Squarespace - as always Squarespace is a place to host your online presence. I use it for a personal blog, you can use it for things like a community or a shop because they have monetization features, a great analytics section, they have ways to connect your social media accounts as well as adding email lists and comment sections. They also have a bunch of free templates that makes making a website very simple so right now you can go to squarespace.com and play around with all of those templates and features for free and then when you are ready to launch your website you can go to squarespace.com/ caricakes to get 10% off of your first website or domain. As always mine is linked down below - caricakes. net if you want to see my Squarespace so thank you as always, that information will be in the description box. And what did I purchase?
Neither of us are really like shoppers when we travel. I know that a lot of people when they go to Japan they have very specific things that they like to pick up. Normally I would stop in like Uniqlo or GU just because their jeans are always like for people who are my height but we didn't do any of that. Kurt ended up getting some really beautiful glass cups because he's very interested in that but for me, I hit a tea shop. Luckily Kurt was there to like kind of control me because I did have an empty suitcase so I could have gone ham but I didn't. I ended up getting two different canisters...
will it focus, yes here we go - this is like traditional washi paper around just your classic tea tin. I have a lot of loose leaf teas and I'm going - I have this one and then I got it in yellow as well - and so yeah I have a lot of loose leaf teas that I just kind of forget about. They're sort of like my tea cabinet is very disorganized and kind of chaotic so I'm going to use these to put the teas that I want to finish, like this season cuz I have teas that are definitely like more of a winter flavor versus a spring flavor Etc so I'm going to put my more wintry teas in here to try and push myself to finish them. They're very bright colored, I will put them at the front of my tea cabinet so I will try to go for these whenever I'm going for a cup of tea. So that's
what I got - they had huge ones too, I figured these were just the right size for the amount of loose leaf tea that I buy. So I got this and then I got this apple tea in tea bag form. It's just something Ringo - that's all I know I can't read the the kanji. But yeah it's just a black tea with a fresh Apple flavor so yay that's, this is my haul, this is what I bought in Japan and I'm very happy with it. But now I'm actually going to head out and we're going to do some studying. I want to get more into my like proper classes again, I know that I mentioned I'm doing like canva and graphic design stuff on skillshare but right now I'm trying to do more Humanities classes on coursera so I have a couple that I'm trying to start and I'm going to make it like a weekly thing instead of usually I will get super into studying and on coursera you can just like breeze through a class so I will just like spend two or 3 hours taking a class and then promptly either forget everything or like I never finish the course so I'm going to try and come up with a schedule so that I do a little bit every week instead of like exhausting myself. So that's what we're doing. I'm going to start with - I have a Linguistics course I think I only want to start with one right now that's that and I'll update you on what teas go in here but let's head out and thank you as always for being here. I hope that you enjoyed that Little Tokyo montage and let's go! Checking in from rainy Seongsu - very quickly, I saw the Holdovers which made me cry. Very
great Christmas movie, I could see myself watching that every Christmas. And yeah now I'm over here stopping in a couple vintage stores. I wasn't expecting it to rain / snow as much as it is so we're going to make this a quick run. I might stop and read a little bit of my book. Nobody has umbrellas it's so funny, like everyone is chaotically running around. Yeah I might stop and read a book but then I need to go home, I have an unexpected meeting and I think I got a package from a friend that I'm excited to open so it's going to be a little bit of a messy Thursday but off we go! hi hello is it bright enough? Okay. I have a package - oh my what? - okay so I have a package from my friend Peri and
I know one thing that's in it but according to the customs declaration there's something else! Ooh you taped this real good girl. Okay good Lord I don't think that's how I was supposed to open it but here we are. This is when you know someone really loves books, is the amount of careful packaging surrounding this precious cargo. They're wrapped so beautifully what the heck! Here's her packaging oh my gosh it's tied with such beautiful twine. Oh thank you - so this is from a bookstore that
I apparently must visit. What why is this now my most beautiful book tote? Can you see? Oh my gosh officially added to my collection of most favorite totes, thank you. I'm going to open the big one first because I know what this is. My third copy of Once Upon A Broken Heart...however it's signed.
Oh it even says my name! Oh it actually says to Cari, oh my gosh and then which one do I open first? I'll open this one first - extras from the Once Upon A Broken Heart world? Oh my gosh this is from the tour, they gave out for the book tour they gave out I guess like the first chapter and then these beautiful Apple bookmarks. Did you make these Peri? Did you? I am being so spoiled right now. Okay and then last one - this novel was an absolute masterpiece and had me gripped to the page, it's a literary fiction novella that slowly unravels a terrible secret of a town. Wait wait I know what this is - I know what this is. I think I read this and I wanted...please let - yes okay I actually read this Peri! And I wanted a physical copy. This is a dark little book. It is Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. Right I read this one right? Yes okay. About a phenomenal on that I had no idea existed. We truly share the same mind Peri, thank you so much. This was the best package I could ask
for. I'm going to keep these little pieces as well, I'm going to put this in the book actually. Okay truly the most spoiled girl on earth. Book friends are the best friends, I've got to say. I am so overwhelmed and thankful. I did not expect that cuz we talked about this it was sort of like oh send it to me whenever and whenever was today! Peri, thank you so much. And sort of strangely on that note I'm actually going to end the video here. I have a meeting in...very soon that I need to
get ready for and then I'm going to kind of edit this up and start filming for next week. It's going to be a weird rainy week, I don't know what's happening, I think we might be meeting up with Sissel, I might be meeting up with another friend so good things on the horizon! I also managed to get like one of the last tickets to see Dune in IMAX - I mean within like the opening weekend so yeah we're going to go see that which I'm so excited for. Yeah just overall bright things on the horizon and I will catch you guys later so thank you as always. Thank you for watching that very different style of Tokyo Vlog and yeah thank you again to Squarespace for sponsoring this - information will be down below but squarespace.com caricakes you can get 10% off your first website or domain, highly recommend as always and yeah oh I'm just so tickled. So okay I need to go set my
life up on the computer and I'll catch you guys later thank you always and let me know what you're up to, let me know if you have any content you're interested in seeing, any neighborhoods you've heard about, any new stuff you want me to check out and I'll see you then okay okay bye!
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