Our last full day in Seoul
Today we started off at Starbucks. From there, we decided to go to Namdaemun Market which is an outdoor market where you can shop for traditional Korean items. We popped up from the subway exit and couldn’t find the “gate” to the market, so we wandered around for a while. We came across the Deoksugung Palace. We decided to pay the whopping $1.00ish to walk through it. Since it was the only palace we visited, we thought it was pretty cool and we’re glad we took the time to do it. So, how did we find the market? There happened to be some sort of “information festival” in front of City Hall. One of the booths happened to be a booth sponsored by the American Consulate. The lady there spoke perfect English, of course, and was able to point us in the right direction. We finally made it to the market, but we didn’t buy anything. It was really an interesting place to walk around…felt very Korean/Asian to us. It was hands-down the most crowded place we’ve been (besides the subway line #5) since we got here. We passed a pot full of boiling something or the other. The smell was not appealing and Brad said even he wouldn’t eat it!
After we finished the market, we decided to eat Korean BBQ one last time. We really enjoyed that lunch…very tasty! After lunch, we took our last spin through the Hyundai Dept. Store. We bought something called a cheesecake which turned out to be more of a sponge cake type thing with a hint of cheesecake flavoring.
Ok, I have to admit we just spent an hour watching some sort of Korean game show. It was hilarious (even though we don’t speak one bit of Korean)! Brad will post the video on our website…you’ll see why it was funny (I hope;-).
We are anxiously awaiting our farewell ceremony tomorrow. We know it will be a bitter-sweet moment. Benjamin will finally be ours to keep forever, but it will surely be a sad time for his foster parents. Keep us all in your thoughts and prayers.
Signing off…We’ll post again when we’re home sweet home.
