Seoul Searching Saturday/ Sunday

This weekend was another amazing weekend in South Korea. Friday I went out with some of the teachers from school and met some of the people who used to work there. It was a blast. We had good food and good times! We were in Iksan Friday night and I went to a couple of new places and met a couple of new people which is always fun. And Saturday we went to Seoul to pick up Scott from the airport.

The weekend was really a weekend of firsts for me as I have never ridden on a train, a sub and I have never stayed in a Korean hotel. We got an early start Saturday morning and got on the KTX train to Seoul. Once we arrived, we were all starving and I wanted Mexican food so bad I could cry so we went to Iteawon which has a lot of foreigners and a lot of variety in restaurants. Mark knew of one Mexican restaurant that he thought was ok and we went there. The food was ok, not at all like Mexican food at home, but it made my belly happy.

Mark and Jason were not satisfied with the meal and decided it was time for Indian food! We went to and Indian food restaurant, I wasn't hungry so I just enjoyed a glass of red wine and laughed at them as they tore up the buffet. To food was pretty tasty there, I wish I had had that instead of the overly expensive and not all all like Mexican food, meal that I had.

Next we went to the Dongdeamum and the Yongsan Electronics markets. At Dongdeamum I was able to find a super cute purse, the experience was a little crazy. There were people all over the place and tons of foreigners! I was in reverse culture shock seeing all kinds of white people walking around! Dongdeamum was full of clothes and purses and I really liked this one coach purse and the guy asked for 90,000 won! That's like, $80! No flipping way! It was a HORRIBLE knock off he went down to 60,000 but I just thought I might find something I liked more for cheaper and I did!

The Yongsan market was just what you would imagine, rows and rows of electrical equipment and ipods and all that jazz. I really like technology all of a sudden so it was fun to look but I am for sure not in the market to buy anything right now.

Scott arrived on time, but sick :( I guess he had developed a little bit of a cold shortly before leaving and it was made worse by the pressure changes and all that couped up and unable to sleep time. He was pretty out of it so we just headed straight for a hotel. We stay in Insadong, an artys fartys district in Seoul. I wish now that I would have taken pictures of our cheap, but laughable hotel room. I was tiny and the bed was like the floor, but with springs gouging your ribs. It wasn't too bad, but Scott was sick and snoring up a storm and I had a little insomnia so I used my itouch to get on the Internet until it died.

Sunday morning Scott was up with the sun and ready to get out of that god forsaken bed so we all got around and went walking/ busing/ subwaying all around Seoul and the Markets. It was a lot of fun, but with each of us sleep deprived, it wasn't as exciting as it should have been. We'll have to all go back when we feel like normal human beings.

We took the KTX back and I'm finally home! I have Scott heavily medicated so he's snoring it up again and hopefully I can get a little sleep before tomorrow and another week of work.

UPDATE - My Magic Time kids were really good for me on Friday and we had a ton of fun playing a game and they are getting the words so so good! I am very proud of my little munchkins. Til tomorrow when I'm blogging about hurling them out windows again!

Times are good! Thanks for the comments, you're not all jerks anymore! Just some of you ;)