So, as a little keepsake for ourselves (and anyone else who is interested) we just wanted to document everything we did on those splendid & blissful days together.
Here goes nothing...
Sunday 23rd December
We landed in Korea and the 10 hour flight from Sydney & took a real toll on our energy. Even though we had only been up for half of a day, it was night time by the time we landed AND IT WAS ALSO WINTER! Crazy because we left Sydney in Summer. There was also snow on the ground and it made me SO excited.
It took almost an hour of crazy Korean bus-driving to get to the Royal Hotel of Seoul. It was Freeeeezing. It was -16 degrees. After running back to the bus to check for a lost phone, we checked into the hotel and felt very sick.
But we didn't want to go straight to bed because it's not everyday you go to Korea for free (the airline payed for our stop over & hotel, sweeeet). So at 11:30 at night we put on our warmest clothing and went out and ventured into the Korean night.
It turned out that all of the shops were open. The streets were full of people, lights, snow and weird people crawling on the floor on a skateboard with trailing boom-box and a bag over their feet WTF (no seriously, we stared at this guy for a solid 10 minutes wondering what the heck he was doing... but i'm not going to judge what somebody finds fun. Seriously, though... what the heck).
The weirdest feeling was that instead of us looking at the 1 Korean in the crowd, 100's of Koreans were looking at us, the 2 white people in the crowd. We stood out, but in a good way. Aside from that, the city was amazing; there were lights everywhere! It was 12am and it felt like it was 4pm. The city of Seoul thrives at night.
We found a cafe like Starbucks and ordered a $5500 Hot Chocolate to warm us up (it wasn't really that expensive, Gideon just likes to make jokes). We could hardly talk, as if our lips froze shut, so the hot choc warmed our every fibre and we were able to trek on.
We found a cute make-up store on a corner called Etude House and Clarissa went cray cray. Imagine the most bubblegum pink, girly, amazing thing and multiply it by 10000000 & that's Etude House. We spent about 80,000 Won there, I couldn't resist IT WAS SO CUTE. There was an Etude house on every corner so it must've been popular. They loved us there because we were foreign and gave us 3 free things. I have a feeling they felt sorry for us because we couldn't understand anything they were saying, most of the time we communicated with hand signals & somehow we managed to work out some weird English-Korean sign language.
Etude house-- amazing! Korean sky scrapers-- Gideon with locals -- Myself in an alley way.
We got back to the hotel and tried to sleep... TRIED. Flying and the cold really took it's toll. We woke up dead tired, and somehow made it back to the airport. Went through the whole airport experience and got on the flight. This flight SUCKED. Some guy in front of me reclined the whole trip ALL 13 HOURS.
We were also stuck next to a smelly Chinese woman who kept farting.
But hey, the food was good.
Next up, New York; love at first sight.
-C
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