It is Monday morning. I didn't wake up with the alarm. I should be well rested and happy, but I still feel a bit -blah- and tired.
Friday was a good day, and Friday night two girlfriends came over. We ordered fried chicken, which is almost exactly the same as in America, the only difference is that one side has ordinary fried chicken and the other side has fried chicken with, you guessed it, a spicy sauce. They wound up staying much longer than orignally planned, but we had a great time.
Saturday I went to Seoul with the giant. He is new to Korea but has traveled a lot in Central America. He is pretty tall, so he towers over everyone here. I'm sure he has no problems controlling the kids. We met up with my friend from KC and her friend at Kybo, the biggest bookstore ever.
We were all hungry so decided to try to find a good place to eat. We found an awesome place to eat down one alley and a small trail. The entry way had a cool well with a stone basin, and we went in and had bulgogi, but they really went all out on the side dishes. There was a boiled eggplant, fried zucchini, these small fish with the heads still on, a vegetable stew, potato salad with apples, two kinds of kim'chi, odan ( a kind of fish but it doesn't look or taste like fish), rice in a stone pot that was still very hot. We took the rice out of the pot then put a broth in, and after we ate we had rice soup. The rice was really good too, with red beans, ginger, ginseng, and sweet potato cooked in.
We went walking and near Kybo is a great park area with a river and they were having a festival so we wandered around there, then decided to walk to Sincheon. Sincheon is a great little area of Seoul with lots of shops, coffee shops and restaurants. We started walking and it was quite a hike. We got a little lost, but I was able to save the day with my Korean. We also found the nicest movie theater. The place looked more like an opera house, and I decided that I have to see something there. When we finally got to Sincheon we had a couple of drinks at the foreigner bar, then went home.
Sunday I left the house twice.
And so it goes.
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Wow. Walking from Gwanghwamun to Sincheon... that's gotta be an hour at least!
Nearly every bus stop in the area has a bus that goes to Sincheon... next time consider the bus (900 won) ... hangeul for Sincheon is "신촌".
A taxi would be about 3,000 to 6,000 won depending on traffic.
Yeah, but it was fun to see things on the ground. We weren't really going anywhere in particular, just walking for the fun of it. We stopped a lot for coffee or beer along the way.
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