A slept pretty deep, but I on the other hand started waking
up at 3:00am, then every hour, on the hour. I finally gave in and got up at 6:30 to start my day. I think it’s the earliest I’ve ever
gotten up without an alarm clock!
Today was amazing! We started our morning with just about the best breakfast I think I’ve ever had. If you could think of it, it was on the breakfast buffet- American and Korean. Some of the Korean breakfast items included Kimchi, seaweed, rice, broccoli, and salad.
After indulging, we left our hotel at 9:30 for our city tour and didn’t return until 9:30 PM!! It was the LONGEST city tour I could have imagined and my feet and back are most certainly paying the price. But, I couldn’t be more excited to learn more about this amazing place!
We started out with a lesson on the subway transit system…
which by 9:00pm, we realized we apparently DID NOT master. Thank goodness a nice local guy was
willing to help us out-literally- instead of just laugh at us. I think the only thing more frustrating
than being lost in a foreign country is being lost underground.
After our subway lesson, it was time for the Palace tour. It was nice and BIG. We enjoyed watching a small “changing of the guards” ceremony and then were on our way to the throne room. By a wonderful chance, we ran into some other adoptive friends, Heidi and Mark. We were thrilled to spend the rest of the day with them! (Their gotcha day is also tomorrow-Monday- Amanda/Tay’s is Mon. at 12:00 noon/ Sunday 10pm Alabama/Louisianna time.)
We then visited the Insadong (and several others) market. There, we ate a traditional Korean meal that was complete with Pepsi (THANK the good Lord above!!) and scissors to cut the meat! That one was interesting.

3 kind thoughts:
Sounds like yall are having a great time!! How exciting :)
Sounds like yall are having a great time!! How exciting :)
What an amazing and memorable journey, Brooke! Looks like a ton of fun!
P.S. The lady and man in the left bottom corner in the very first picture on this blog are killing me!! I'm pretty sure that lady was wanting to kill you for taking a picture of her. ;)
xoxo
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