Seoul

Hi all...so here are the pictures since the last time I posted.

1. Korean style dressing room (in a little vendors spot,...no room for a door and small room) ...pull a skirt over your head and wear it like a curtain.

2. Fake brand name shoes from China. they are really cheap and look identical.

3. walking through vendors

4. 5 and 6. a little river they made in Seoul...we weere lucky the sky was blue that day because the 2 days before it wasnt so blue from the smog.

7. a funny sign in the seoul subway, click on it and read it. they say old, not elderly

8. Myundong, seoul...downtown

9. goofy guys shirts at a vendor in seoul. some shirts have english words on them but make no sense at all.

10. the sting rae at the aquarium is smiling because he likes me!

11. poofy cheek fish. though he looked funny. it reminds me of the bad guy octupus man in pirats of the caribbean.

12. fish in a toilet at the aquarium.

13. fish andkari

14. fish and mong.

15. seven monkeys coffee...look familiar?

16. a guy making rice cake the traditional style, smashing it with wood.

17. Insadong... a little artsy part of seoul

18. random small alley street

19. Mong and a rat statue---he was born in the year of the rat

20-28. Me looking sweaty dying in the humidity carrying a heavy backpack. we were at the former king's palace, Gyeongbokung---its spread out and the grounds total area is about like 5 shasta college campuses. prettty big. The other pictures are from there as well. It was originally built in 1395 by a king, but then 80% of the palace was destroyed by a japanese invasion in 1592 and then reconstructed in the mid 1800's. Now they are restoring 40% of the buildings. A famous emperess was also murdered by ninja's in the picture 28 (the one ith the small round building surrounded by water, not the big one surrounded by water---thats where the king had his parties). The big red throne pic is the kings throne. The guys in red are the guards...they all wear fake beards hehe. they are very serious despite random people standing next to them and taking pics...i decided to look angle and serious like him.

29. Thats the view to masan bay from our window on a stormy day.

Seoul was fun, but too humid and way too many people. I looked it up---10,000,000 people live in the city and 25,000,000 in the metropolitan area. Too big! Really it was just a big city, but he kings palace was cool and we went to an aquarium. Next time we go we'll go to the big tower and look out and I'll take more pictures. I like it better down here in Masan/Changwon---I like the weather---not near as humid as seoul---it was worse than germany and houston!!! And we are near the ocean and there are less people and the moutains are closer. This weekend we're gonig to a creek where Mong and his friends used to go to a lot---he showed me pics, it looks like madrone, im excited!

Blog freeze

I am going to Seoul tomorrow until Sunday night...so I won't blog this weekend, just so you don't have to worry about bugging me for more pictures or such, Pop. Hehehe. I'll post something as soon as I can thought. Love you all! PS everything has been going great and yesterday we had an awesome raging storm but it was like 80 degrees outside, it was sweet! And today sunny and warm, perfect!

Second batch of pictures

1. The family: mom (Young-ae), dad (Han-suk), Hwayon, and Mong being goofy. 2. People shuffling muscles picking out the bad ones at mong's dads friends seafood company. 3. Mong with the prettiest dog I've seen here yet...havent seen many, but I want this one! 4. There he is again, he was so precious. 5. Mong and dad on dad's small boat. 6. Some sea creature dad's friend pulled out of a tangle of seaweed, muscles and other things. He peeled the soft shells off and ate it. I ate one too...dont know what it was but it was salty. 7. Fishing poles and random things. oh, and we caught nothing. 8. Me sticking my head through a peak window in the boat. 9. "Driving" the boat. 10. Tiny cabin under the little bow. 11. At the elementary school I went to--the kids have to put their shoes in cubbies and wear rubber slippers so they dont scratch the wood floor. 12. Some 5th grade boys and I, they lovvvvvved the camera 13. Part of the class. 14. The class. 15. Busan, 2nd largest city in Korea, in one of the downtowns. 16. Haeundai beach in Busan, very famous but too many people. 17. Yep, I caught an eel and two starfish! 18. View from our apartment, 12th floor. 19. Another view. 20. Mong and some of his friends being goofy. 21. And last, so far my favorite soup. It translate to bone soup, but it has a big bone with pork on it and its realllly good. with all the veggies, tasty!