Four in Months Now: Boo-urns Seoul!! Yay Seoul!!

It’s been a while since I have made a post. I tend to go underground at the end of each month because of report cards. I usually have between seventy and eighty reports to do each month. It sounds bad and it is the worst part of the job, but they are fairly simple to do. I’ve posted a massive photo album upload over at my msn space. There’s three or four albums, sort of a photo essay of what me and K are up to out here in Korea. We’ve been to the zoo, a tomb, and Seoul.

Seoul was good and bad. The start of the trip was completely awful. We went to an Indian restaurant which was bad, left it for a good one, and then wound up spending about $200 canbuck on the Itaweon Hotel. Actually it was the Shit-‘eh’-‘wahn’ if you care to pronounce it. The mini-bar was empty, there was no water in the room, and no tooth-brushes or mouthwashes (which is a pretty standard thing here in Korea, even in your typical $50/night hotel). If that wasn’t bad enough… Me and Rob were turned away from the hotel bar because it was for ‘Koreans only’ MARAWLRAWLRAWL. Fuck the Itaweon.

The next day started with a trek to McDonalds for breakfast. I picked the slowest damn line in the world. When we finally reached the front of the line, the cashier just walked away and started messing with their coffee machine. Eventually we did get served, we got our precious Mcmuffins and got going. From here things get better.

First we went to a Palace in Seoul. It was awesome. I always enjoy reading the information plaques in around here. Lots of great info and trivia, for example, it turns out an entire section of the palace was destroyed during Japanese occupation and was rebuilt in 1999!

Next was Yongsan electronics market. This place was awesome. Brand new top end electronics and nothing is priced so you can haggle, and it is huge!! Then we went to an open market, this is even more fun for haggling, Me and K are gonna go back there before Christmas to do a little shopping.

We finished our trip with the Thai Orchid back in Itaweon. It was one of the best meals I have eaten in Korea. Probably in my top five or ten all time. After the Orchid we went to the train station and came back home to Daejeon.