Enjoying Seoul Some More..

Yesterday was another great day here in Seoul! The best part was knowing that tomorrow (today now) we get to see Jackson again for a few hours in the morning. We can’t wait!!!

To start off the day, we headed over to the Itaewon area. This is most westernized (Americanized) area we’ve seen so far. It is close to the US Army base and is known for shopping.

We walked up and down the main shopping street, stopping in quite a few shops. We came across some great finds. One of my favorites being a big plush Pororo for Jackson. We bought Gracie a Hello Kitty dressed in traditional Korean attire at the Insadong market yesterday (grandparents don’t tell her ;) ). So, we were really happy to find a cute matching snuggly animal for JJ today.


The shopping street and grabbing a diet coke..


We had some time to kill before our shuttle returned so; we walked around looking for an interesting place to have lunch. We ended up having our favorite Korean dish, bibimbap, at a trendy Korean restaurant just off the main shopping street. It was delicious, as always.

We do seem to be doing a lot of shopping and eating, huh?

From Itaewon we headed to the downtown business area. We had intentions to go to another market but, spotted the Deoksugung Palace. The Deoksugung Palace is smaller than the palace we saw yesterday but, just as interesting and so full of character. It is fascinating seeing this ancient palace right in the middle of large business buildings. All that tradition mixed in with business suits and Dunkin D*nuts....so interesting. The best part of the visit to this palace was our timing. We just happen to walk up right at what we thought was the charging of the guard.




As we were exiting, people were starting to gather with cameras outside the entrance to the palace. We weren’t sure what was going on at first and then saw the guards marching up the street followed by a full procession with instruments. We realized this was the full changing of the guard reenactment. We have a great video but, can't get it to upload. So here are some more pictures....