Hello, Land of the Morning Calm

Here are some pictures from our first few weeks in South Korea...

This place could be called the 'Land of the Sidewalk Shop.'
People are selling things everywhere you go.

One of our first restaurant experiences, and one of the reasons I'm learning to read Hangul (wanting to be able to read the menu!).

Here we're eating bulgogi (불고기 !)--a very popular and common dish of thinly sliced marinated meat (usually beef, but can be other meats too). They also usually give you many small dishes of other things (appetizers? side dishes?). Here we have several kinds of kimchi, marinated bean sprouts, cooked potatoes, and a mayonnaise-type salad with Asian pear in it.

A few pictures (mostly of Allison) on the playground outside of the inn on base.



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Andrew and Katelyn using the headsets to listen to information on the Seoul city tour bus.

At Seoul Tower--the things hanging on what look like trees are thousands of locks, often with messages on them. Couples come here to 'seal their love' by locking a lock on top of the tower (they used to throw the key off the top, but now there is a box to safely deposit them in).


These next few photos are from the same day in Seoul, but I can't remember where we were exactly. At a historic palace of some kind...






And, at the cute water park at an army post not too far from us.