Saturday, October 28, 2006

National Museum of Korea

It's not all about theme parks and shopping, friends. After a month and a half, Mel and I decided to do something semi-cultural (there's lots of time for that stuff, right?) and we visited the National Museum of Korea in Ichon. We had originally headed there to get a voltage transformer for our Nintendo, but when that only took five minutes we had some time to kill.


It's a pretty large complex, built over three floors. To the far left and far right of each floor are the exhibits. They represented a lot of Asian art and artifacts.


There was a whole room full of gongs.

Room-o-heads.

On this world map Newfoundland is still partially covered in ice lol. Did I mention that admission to the museum was free? It's usually only 2,000 won a piece anyway but we always seem to luck out with these freebie admissions and discounts. At Mr. Pizza a few weeks ago we each got a free electric toothbrush!

For supper we had Pho, which is Vietnamese noodles. Pho is freaking awesome! I had chicken and Mel had beef. It is basically meat, noodles and broth, but your table is filled with optional veggies to toss in the bowl as well. Of course, Mel did more tossing than I did but it was still delicious.

It was a little hard to eat what basically amounts to chicken noodle soup with a set of chopsticks, but it got a little easier after a few attempts.

Well, it is a pretty bright and sunny Sunday afternoon here and we are about to go check out the Halloween camp activities the school is putting on this weekend, and maybe even take a hike in one of the walking trails. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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