This is just a shorter post about the end of my vacation in Seoul. That is to say, Saturday. Oh Saturday. What a day. So, Ellen and I woke up with a plan. It was a good plan, a pretty plan, and like all plans it went out the window fairly quickly. Originally we were going to go see this artificial river thing (stream!), and then go to Hongdae (which is near a university and has a cool flea market like thing, and some other interesting places), and then I was going to go see a movie with Michael and she was going to....I forgot. So the first wrench in the plan was the movie was not showing, which was sad, but not too bad, it just mean that I got included in Ellen's other plans (which I still can't remember). Then Ellen said it would be better to see the river at night because it apparently lights up cool (or something, maybe that happened first and I'm just confused. Doesn't really matter the order). The point is, we went to Hongdae first (I really think I'm spelling that wrong).
So, we got out of the hotel and I wanted to get Japanese food for lunch. We decided to wait until we got there to eat and by then I was starving. So, in a fit of knee-jerk decision making we went to this burger restaurant called The Joe. BEST IDEA EVER! It was delicious! (oh, don't shake your head at us eating 'American' food while in Korea, sometimes you just want a taste from home, so there~!) Cheered by this happy development, and already feeling we were going to have an awesome day we promptly got lost (this may or may not have been partially my fault). So we ended up wandering around looking for this flea market, in circles, for a while. It was really fun though. The area was gorgeous, the day wasn't too cold, and we had a good time and took pictures. So then we went to a Cat Cafe (or was that before finding the flea market? No, I think it was after), called Tom's Cafe. For those of you who don't know. A Cat Cafe is the most brilliant idea in the face of forever! Basically, it's exactly what it sounds like, it's a cafe with a large number of cats wandering around for you to pet, cuddle and play with. There are large structures for the cats to play on, and you're given toys to entice the kittens to your side. The cats range from fairly young kittens to older more stately cats. SO MUCH FUN! Pictures are up on facebook (more to come from my iPod). So then we decide to wander around some more. And eventually decide to grab Japanese for dinner. We half-decided on Ramen, couldn't find the restaurant, and, half-an-hour (probably closer to an hour) later we go into a Japanese curry restaurant. Once again DELICIOUS!
So, after our adventure we head back to the subway to head for this river stream thing (I'm still unclear as to what exactly it was, it starts with a C though...). And what do you know, there's the Japanese restaurant we had been searching for! Much groaning was had, but we were pleased with our dinner so we just laughed and got over it. So then came the EPIC ADVENTURE OF EPICNESS IN THE COLD!!!! We got lost again. Turned around. Asked for directions. And got lost again. Called Ellen's friend who didn't know where we were. Ended up by Myeong-dong again and decided, Screw it, let's go get ice cream! Seriously, we wandered around for an hour or so trying to find this place, and we couldn't. So we went, got ice cream, and retreated, still fairly happy with our day, to spend our last night in our sketchy hotel. I ended up passing out early (oops, guess the walking tired me out a lot) so our full plans for the night went unfulfilled (nothing you would be interested in...just J-drama sillyness). All in all, it was a successful vacation, very fun, pretty relaxing, wish it was longer. Back to school tomorrow. Though, happily, I am armed with happy thoughts in the form of Audio books (Vol 1 and 2 of the complete works of Tacitus as well as Juvenal's Satires) and a podcast about the History of Rome. Let's see if I'm actually ready to go back to work....
~Lyn
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