Saturday in Korea

We had huge plans to leave the house at 6 AM to go see the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). Instead, we got up at 10:30 AM, Yenji puked, we lounged around, and picked up some baked goods at the "Paris Baguette". We went to a park by Rachel's house to eat it while watching kids playing basketball. Yenji layed down for a while, puked in the bushes three times and then we took the subway to Seoul to the War Memorial Museum.

On the subway, a special woman was selling candy and gum on the subway. She put a box of gum in Yenji's hand, helped herself to Yenji's bottle of water, and then asked for money for the gum. Yenji gave her 1000 won for it (and gave her the water bottle too). Eric was holding a loaf of green tea bread with red beans, and this small child (about 3 yrs old) asked Eric for a piece of it. The slice of bread was as big as her torso and she looked sooo cute eating it.

The museum is huge. That's all I have to say about that. We learned about the Korean war, but maybe some things were lost in the translation because we still weren't sure how and why it all happened. For a snack, we had "mini melts" which are little beads of ice cream that you eat with a spoon out of a plastic baseball cap. Outside, there is a huge statue of a South Korean soldier hugging his younger brother, a soldier from North Korea. War sucks.

We had plans to meet Rachel's friends for dinner in Seoul, but we missed them so we headed home first while Rachel went to meet them. We made our way back to Rachel's apartment via the park where Yenji puked 3 times again in the same location.

Somehow, we managed to find our way back to Rachel's apartment via the Family Mart, where we picked up some coffee and seaweed snacks. When we got back to the apartment, Yenji slept and Eric called Rachel to order some food for us. Rachel arrived home about 5 minutes before the food, which is nice because with the lack of cash register, communicating the cost would have been difficult. The food was great -- it came with full dishes and appetizers and everything. When we were done, we just threw all our dishes out the door and apparently the restaurant came back later to pick them up up. Fantastic.

Off to lunch soon... Last day in Korea :-(