We decided to have a picnic in a nearby park on the first fairly warm day in April, roasting steaks over a charcoal grill. Look who joined us!

Here is our special pile of roasting embers. it worked great with tons of lighter fluid, which made our steaks taste like lighter fluid also. But hey! We were bbqing for the first time in Korea. Pretty good for a first time if I say so myself.

We had fun trying to tan our snow white bodies while being accosted by little girls.

The Biggest Palace in Seoul!!

The Palace!!! It's called Gungbyeongbonggyeonggong or something to that effect. Our Korean is not up to snuff. There were a lot of G's and B's though -this we remember. This used to be the King's palace a few years back (the photo being the inner gate to the palace), and was rebuilt in the 1800's and 1960's. This was our first palace experience, and an oodley good time. Oh yes, and this is Jennica wearing Who.A.U outer shirt, with A.E. pink spring hoody, glasses by DollaSto, and hair by Prada.

This is supposed to be the "I just love Korea... don't you?!" -geek pose. We give Hil's performance a 9.5 The guy behind Hil in the red suit thing has a fake beard. They're like the British dudes, but these guys let their eyes wander everywhere, kinda like they're just waiting -dontcha know- for the invading Mongols. It's a really exciting experience to see them stand there.

Here's one of the gates to the old temple. The palace was really interesting in that there was all this empty space everywhere. It was like a gate, and then a football field, and then another wall-ish thing, and then a b-ball-sized court... either the architectural designer was like "oh, we'll find stuff to fill it later -trust me!" -and then he turned out to be completely WRONG, or the ancient Koreans had a soft spot for MASSIVE games of chess with REAL players. Just like Harry Potter. It's a good book. You should read it.

Here we are -out of focus, and so in love.

...and here's the museum section to the palace -the whole place was very beautiful with the flowers in bloom, but as most museums go, you couldn't touch half the stuff there. Oh ze well. It was wonderful to see!

ahh, street chipmunks!!! This gives me hope that perhaps one day they might make a nice pet in our home too!

We went to Incheon and found a dude!

One day, we met up with Adrian's friend Bongseok (met at Douglas College whilst Adge was assistant-teaching ESL) and he showed us all around Incheon, a neigboring seaport city to Seoul (where we flew in at originally). 'Twas a fun day.

...the gate to Chinatown in Incheon. It felt like a different world. Sometimes the city feels so the same-same (yes, even in Korea!) so it' s refreshing to see other cultural stuff about.

a pagoda, pretty like Chinese.

homemade Korean food at Bongseok's aunt's place - to DIE for - the best Korean food we've ever tasted, hands down. Starting from bottom right we have kimbap (like sushi), then chupcha (excellent Chinese noodles with crab and veggies in it), deepfried veggies, more veggies in hot red sauce, teriyaki bulgogi (beef - our favourite), kimchi soup a la spam (it's never tasted so good, seriously), as well as kimchi and rice (the staples with every meal here).

Our un-adventure of Lotte World!

Lotte World, oh Lotte World, your enchanting walls are so alluring; your animals always manuring; your blue paint!!! How we wanted to feel the excitement within your walls!!!!!!!

But with these dudes blocking every entrance...

...we had no choice but to do this in your general direction, and then leave.

Oh Lotte, your innards are fantastical!

It took several tries to get this shot to happen. There was huge papparazzi, security, and not to mention fan presence around her. When it came down to it, I just had to be a man and do it. So I busted through the crowd, sweating hard mind you, pretended to be taking a picture of some girl's head, and snapped the best picture ever to grace the internet. Of course, with Pink the Poodle as the subject, any shot is the best in the world.

War Museum

Voila le war museum, from the outside, which we didn't get to see the inside of as yet... but we checked the whole outside out and are pretty pleased with the pictures. Voila le war museum, from the outside, which we didn't get to see the inside of as yet... but we checked the whole outside out and are pretty pleased with the pictures.




























So, here's a long shot of one end of the museum (the outside part that is). You can see the tanks behind the two planes in front. Most of these vehicles were Republic of Korea property, and some of them were Russian-made recoveries from the war in the '50s between N. Korea (occupied by Russian communists) and S. Korea (heavily defended by the U.S.) So recent.

The view inside a tank. Adrian had to squeeze to get into the seat at the front left side, and I couldn't believe how cramped it was in there. You seriously had to be tiny, and short. He is in his element however.