Our first trip to Seoul

At th Gyeongbokgung Palace

We just got back from an amazing three day weekend in Seoul. Seoul is an extremely massive city that populates 42,000 people per square mile. The city has 25 different regions which contains of thirteen different lines on the subway. However, to our surprise, we found it pretty easy to get around. It can be a little overwhelming when you have to transfer to four different subway lines to get to your destination, but it is relatively easy. This gave us confidence that we will have no problems with the subway lines in Tokyo when we go there this summer. 

Breakfast at one of our new fav. places, One Tree Hill.

Enjoying coffee with Sunhee and Jason

We enjoyed our time in Seoul so much that we did not want to return to our current residence in Daegu. In Seoul, we got to meet up with two very good friends, Sunhee and Jason, who have lived in Seoul there whole lives. They both went to Central Washington University for a year to study English, which is how we met them. Actually, Sunhee and Jason met at the University as well and now they are married. While they were in Washington I showed them around, and in return, this weekend they showed us around Seoul. We also went to Seoul with eight of our very good friends and all shared a hostel within the city. We sure are going to miss them all when they leave in August.

In Seoul, we went to a dog café, which is a café that allows domesticated dogs to rome around while customers enjoy their drinks. Some of these dogs are brought in by the customers and others are owned by the café store. All in all, there were about 40 different kinds of dogs while we were there. Alexa found a special little friend that would not leave her lap and was sad when we had to go. This dog reminded Alexa of her dog back home, Gus, which helped relieve her of doggie withdrawals that she was having. My two favorite dogs were the golden retriever and the massive husky that tended to keep me company while we were there.

At the Bau House dog cafe

Alexa also got to enjoy some shopping as they have many western stores such as Forever 21, H&M, Abercrombie and Fitch, etc. However, Alexa did not get to shop as long as she wanted because of other time commitments. Therefore, we will probably go back to Seoul a few times, not only for the shopping, but to do all the things that we had on our list but were unable to do. A few of those include going to an old Japanese prison, Korean War museum, and the DMZ (De Militarized Zone).

            During our stay we saw some ancient palaces, went up to Namsung Tower (One of the tallest towers in the world), enjoyed lunch and coffee with our Seoul Native friends, enjoyed celebrating Jen’s birthday, went to a dog café, found our new favorite café (One Tree Hill), learned the subway system, enjoyed an art festival, ate Taco Bell and Subway in the same day, and booked our summer trip to Tokyo. Overall, it was an amazing weekend and we are looking forward to next weekend as we are going to Busan for the sand festival!

Namsung Tower