Last weekend, Mel dragged my sick ass out of bed to do some sightseeing. We decided to go see the Chicken Art Museum near Insadong and then check out the Cherry Blossom Festival near the Han River.
The Chicken Art Museum kind of seemed like a place for someone to display their chicken knick-knack collection that had gotten a bit out of control. Unfortunately, there weren't really any funny chickens and in a place called the "Chicken Art Museum" you do expect some foolishness. It's also a very small place- the above photo is the first floor of the museum.
And here's the top floor. There, I just saved you the 3,000 won admission.
I did enjoy this painting. I'd love to hang a print of this fellow in my living room.
After approximately 15 minutes in the museum we traveled to Yeonaru station to see the cherry blossom trees. Mel
really wanted to do this. Once again, I have to begin a description of the events with "unfortunately".
Unfortunately, the weather in Seoul has been colder than usual for this time of year and there were hardly any blossoms. We were well aware of the weather situation, but the festival had started the previous weekend so we were sure that by now the park by the river would be full of beautiful, photogenic white and pink blossoms. As you can see from the photo, it was a little dead-looking.
We did find a few blossoms, and if you zoom in close enough they don't look too dead. With two fails in a row behind us we got some smoothies in the 63 building and I went home to blow my nose for the rest of the night. Summer, plz!!
The Chicken Art Museum kind of seemed like a place for someone to display their chicken knick-knack collection that had gotten a bit out of control. Unfortunately, there weren't really any funny chickens and in a place called the "Chicken Art Museum" you do expect some foolishness. It's also a very small place- the above photo is the first floor of the museum.
And here's the top floor. There, I just saved you the 3,000 won admission.
I did enjoy this painting. I'd love to hang a print of this fellow in my living room.
After approximately 15 minutes in the museum we traveled to Yeonaru station to see the cherry blossom trees. Mel really wanted to do this. Once again, I have to begin a description of the events with "unfortunately". Unfortunately, the weather in Seoul has been colder than usual for this time of year and there were hardly any blossoms. We were well aware of the weather situation, but the festival had started the previous weekend so we were sure that by now the park by the river would be full of beautiful, photogenic white and pink blossoms. As you can see from the photo, it was a little dead-looking.
We did find a few blossoms, and if you zoom in close enough they don't look too dead. With two fails in a row behind us we got some smoothies in the 63 building and I went home to blow my nose for the rest of the night. Summer, plz!!
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