A mishmash of recent photos that don't really belong in any particular post:
A return visit to the War Memorial.
Mel kicks her legs in victory after winning a game of Yut, a traditional Korean game that plays like the game "Sorry" but you use sticks instead of dice. We got really into Yut for a couple of nights there.
POLOPO SPORTS! This elusive popsicle is the yummiest icey treat available on this fair peninsula, in my opinion. It's impossible to find, too. I've only ever spotted it in three random convenience stores and the last time I found them I bought four so I'd be sure to have some on hand. I think it tastes like white freezies, Mel think it tastes like soap. I'm right.
Mies_Container restaurant in Gangnam. I have never walked past this place and NOT seen a line of people wrapped around the building, waiting for a table. Even in the pouring rain. I'm really curious about what they serve, but from pictures that I've seen online it looks like their specialty is potato wedges covered in cheese. That can't be right, can it? Doesn't sound very well-being.
Sparkling tomato cola to quench your thirst in the hot Seoul summer.
We biked from Jamwon to Yeouido last month. That's the 63 building behind me there.
I just really like the name of this convenience store.
We joined a gym, mainly to pass time. Going to the gym in Korea is an interesting experience. There's a woman at our gym that either lives there or has a sick addiction to fitness. Even when it's 35 degrees outside they will not turn on the A/C (one day last week we hit 40 degrees and they turned it on). I've seen a 70 year old man stand on his head. There are some strange humping stretches that the guys do that would definitely impregnate a vagina if it walked by. Many strange.
The last time we went to Paldalmun Market in Suwon, it caught on fire! We were very alarmed, mostly because we hadn't yet had a chance to shop at the part that was burning. It was a minor blaze, and although some of the stores lost power, none of our favorite shops were affected. Watching the fire trucks definitely gave the shop owners something to watch and talk about that day.
Captain Santa Island- we were bored one night so we walked to Nambu Bus Terminal and back and I noticed this Santa-themed golf store. You could get Captain Santa clubs, polos, bags... everything. Because Santa and golf go hand in hand.
A typical payphone, littered with ads for sexy clubs and massages.
Some hospital patients wheeled themselves to this convenience store to smoke and drink in their gowns.
"Little Pussy" sweatshirt. Meow!
I've never met an ugly beer...
I hate our apartment. It wouldn't be so bad if so many gross things didn't happen and if the poorly made fixtures and fittings would stop breaking. Today our laundry room started flooding. It didn't just flood with water, but with old food and sewage that came up stinking and looking like barf. Several dead cockroach bodies floated up too. Then we noticed that bathroom was flooding a bit too. I am not going to miss Korean plumbing. Or the bugs.
Gangnam. I am going to miss the bright bigness of Gangnam. Life is going to seem so much smaller, soon.
Notepad found at Daiso: "Ostrich. A ostrich has a beautiful double eyelid." And since it's Korean, it probably got that double eyelid at the plastic surgeon's office.
This is actually a store and not an image from the new episode of Hoarders. Actually, a lot of stores in Korea look like this. Can you imagine going in and looking for something you actually needed? You'd probably knock yourself out on one of the bags hanging from the ceiling before you got too far.
Yangjae Stream. Mel had been bugging me for weeks to take a walk down there. They've got a nice pool set up there for the summer.
Packing means throwing out a lot of stuff. We made a lot of progress today.
But a lot of tough choices had to be made :(
A return visit to the War Memorial.
Mel kicks her legs in victory after winning a game of Yut, a traditional Korean game that plays like the game "Sorry" but you use sticks instead of dice. We got really into Yut for a couple of nights there.
POLOPO SPORTS! This elusive popsicle is the yummiest icey treat available on this fair peninsula, in my opinion. It's impossible to find, too. I've only ever spotted it in three random convenience stores and the last time I found them I bought four so I'd be sure to have some on hand. I think it tastes like white freezies, Mel think it tastes like soap. I'm right.
Mies_Container restaurant in Gangnam. I have never walked past this place and NOT seen a line of people wrapped around the building, waiting for a table. Even in the pouring rain. I'm really curious about what they serve, but from pictures that I've seen online it looks like their specialty is potato wedges covered in cheese. That can't be right, can it? Doesn't sound very well-being.
Sparkling tomato cola to quench your thirst in the hot Seoul summer.
We biked from Jamwon to Yeouido last month. That's the 63 building behind me there.
I just really like the name of this convenience store.
We joined a gym, mainly to pass time. Going to the gym in Korea is an interesting experience. There's a woman at our gym that either lives there or has a sick addiction to fitness. Even when it's 35 degrees outside they will not turn on the A/C (one day last week we hit 40 degrees and they turned it on). I've seen a 70 year old man stand on his head. There are some strange humping stretches that the guys do that would definitely impregnate a vagina if it walked by. Many strange. 
The last time we went to Paldalmun Market in Suwon, it caught on fire! We were very alarmed, mostly because we hadn't yet had a chance to shop at the part that was burning. It was a minor blaze, and although some of the stores lost power, none of our favorite shops were affected. Watching the fire trucks definitely gave the shop owners something to watch and talk about that day.
Captain Santa Island- we were bored one night so we walked to Nambu Bus Terminal and back and I noticed this Santa-themed golf store. You could get Captain Santa clubs, polos, bags... everything. Because Santa and golf go hand in hand.
A typical payphone, littered with ads for sexy clubs and massages.
Some hospital patients wheeled themselves to this convenience store to smoke and drink in their gowns.
"Little Pussy" sweatshirt. Meow!
I've never met an ugly beer...
I hate our apartment. It wouldn't be so bad if so many gross things didn't happen and if the poorly made fixtures and fittings would stop breaking. Today our laundry room started flooding. It didn't just flood with water, but with old food and sewage that came up stinking and looking like barf. Several dead cockroach bodies floated up too. Then we noticed that bathroom was flooding a bit too. I am not going to miss Korean plumbing. Or the bugs. 
Gangnam. I am going to miss the bright bigness of Gangnam. Life is going to seem so much smaller, soon.
Notepad found at Daiso: "Ostrich. A ostrich has a beautiful double eyelid." And since it's Korean, it probably got that double eyelid at the plastic surgeon's office.
This is actually a store and not an image from the new episode of Hoarders. Actually, a lot of stores in Korea look like this. Can you imagine going in and looking for something you actually needed? You'd probably knock yourself out on one of the bags hanging from the ceiling before you got too far.
Yangjae Stream. Mel had been bugging me for weeks to take a walk down there. They've got a nice pool set up there for the summer.
Packing means throwing out a lot of stuff. We made a lot of progress today.
But a lot of tough choices had to be made :(
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