Monday, June 25, 2007
Our Last Weekend
As some of you know, this is our last full day in Korea. On June 26th, we'll be flying home to the great west! Since it was our last weekend here, we decided to go out in style and spend one last day sight-seeing in Seoul. We joined our partners-in-crime, David and Jerra, and headed to a beautiful palace. This palace is only accesible by tour, and we turned out to be quite the tour delinquents...we really wanted to get pictures and weren't in a rush, so we ended up WAY behind the tour group. Every time we got to a new spot, the lady was already finished her informational speal and was moving everyone off to the next site. Pretty funny! The palace highlight was the "Forbidden Gardens" (don't worry...no longer forbidden!), where we saw a beautiful pond that was full of lotus flower leaves and some blossoms. The blossoms weren't in full bloom, but the green leaves and occassional blossoms floating on the water was pretty cool to see!
After the palace, we headed over to the Han River. We wanted to go boating, but weren't able to find any reasonable places to do it. We found one dock owner that wanted to charge us $30 for a 5 minute boat ride...ummmm, NO! So, we contended ourselves with a nice walk along the river instead.
Our final destination was Seoul Tower...a space-needle/CN tower'ish structure on a small mountain in the middle of Seoul. We got to see the lights of the whole city one last time. It was really beautiful! Unfortunately, I accidentally left our camera on all day and the battery was drained by that time, so we have no pictures. You'll have to imagine it :0)
Here are some pictures from the earlier part of our day:
Sam and David with the main throne room in the distance. This was near the beginning of our tour, before we started to seriously lag behind.
Jerra and I in front of the throne room.
A pretty shot...I felt very artistic taking this.
Me with the lotus flower pond.
Sam and I outside of the concubine's quarters. No, I was not trying to seduce young Samuel ;0)
Our walk along the Han River.
After the palace, we headed over to the Han River. We wanted to go boating, but weren't able to find any reasonable places to do it. We found one dock owner that wanted to charge us $30 for a 5 minute boat ride...ummmm, NO! So, we contended ourselves with a nice walk along the river instead.
Our final destination was Seoul Tower...a space-needle/CN tower'ish structure on a small mountain in the middle of Seoul. We got to see the lights of the whole city one last time. It was really beautiful! Unfortunately, I accidentally left our camera on all day and the battery was drained by that time, so we have no pictures. You'll have to imagine it :0)
Here are some pictures from the earlier part of our day:
Sam and David with the main throne room in the distance. This was near the beginning of our tour, before we started to seriously lag behind.
Jerra and I in front of the throne room.
A pretty shot...I felt very artistic taking this.
Me with the lotus flower pond.
Sam and I outside of the concubine's quarters. No, I was not trying to seduce young Samuel ;0)Our walk along the Han River.# posted by Becky @ 10:21 AM 
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ok. wow. your friend is SO tall. that's awesome!
you guys looked like you had so much fun! so sad at the same time though. the last of everything. sniff. i promise a lot of firsts when you come home!!!!
you guys looked like you had so much fun! so sad at the same time though. the last of everything. sniff. i promise a lot of firsts when you come home!!!!
Well, I was a bit of a silent reader and it was so much fun reading about your life in Korea. I hope to make it back sometime in the next two years. Thank you so much for sharing all of your pictures. I was able to show my mother some of them and she was amazed at how much the country has changed in the 30 years she has been gone. I hope you will continue to blog once you have reached your home. It has been fun and I know Korea will miss the both of you.
Wonderful reading of you guy's adventures. Looking forward to your return. Hopefully you can make it to the young marrieds next gathering this summer. We've missed you...
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