#47 mums visit - seOul namsan tower

a fence of lockss

namsam seoul tower!

martial arts show

hiking namsan

kids playing at the city hall

after namdaemun, we decided we were all shopped out and decided to go to the namsan tower instead.. we walked there and took the lifts up to the start of the cable cars.. to get to the top of the mountain there are 2 ways.. 1 is to hike and walk up.. 2 is to get the cable.. we took the cable car.. it was a good ride..

at the top u can see pretty much all of seoul... u can ever go higher and pay to actually go into the tower but we didnt and just stayed at the top of the mountain. there were many ppl there just chilling. there was also a martial arts show that was on.

the coolest part of namsan tower is the fence.. hahah ok that sounds gay.. but at the top of the mountain there are fences.. couples when they come here and buy locks.. they write messages on those locks and then they lock it together to the fence and throw the keys into the bushes below so that it can never be opened... some cheat and use combination locks though ahahaha i thought this was a really creative idea.

after namsan we got a taxi back to city hall (where our bags in the lockers were) and then trained it home.. it was a long and tiring weekend.

안녕~

xo m

#46 mums viSit - palace, myeOngdong, namdaemun

the morning after..
the motel we stayed at.. this street was full of love motels

outside the palace

myeongdong

namdaemun

after a good slepe at the motel, we woke up for another long day.. we checked out about 11 and headed to city hall. In korea nearly most of the stations have lockers so we were able to leave all our stuff in there and shop without having to hold them..

first stop was the palace that was located right next to city hall. we walked around.. had a look at everything... couldnt understand the history of it cos everything was in korean so that really sucked. After that we headed outside and there was a show on... i dont know what show it was or what was going on but it was interesting... i think it was just to get peoples attentions to go in and look.

After the palace we walked to myeongdong.. myeongdong was packed out like always ... i didnt buy much from myeongdong.. like i've mentioned before.. everywhere in korea sells the same thing so there was not much to buy. we were quite tired and sick of shopping so we headed to namdaemun so that my mum can take a look at ginseng... mum and dad eat this alot to keep their energy up when they're out shooting weddings etc.

i've never been a big fan of namdaemun.. everything is so cramped and u cant really buy anything.. mum didnt like it much either .. it was pretty much similar to vietnam. we just went for a walk arounf and then left.

안녕~

xo m

#45 mums viSit - hOngdae

hongdae station... always packed with people
the streets of hongdae

shopping..

after coex i decided to take my mum to hongdae for a look around at what nightlife was like in korea... hongdae is packed with uni students so we didnt stay out for very long, first we went to sinchon... checked into a motel then headed to hongdae to eat and shop... i bought cool spartan shoes for myself and my sister.

we didnt stay very long.. prob like an hour or 2.. ate some chicken sticks and then hdeaded back to the motel for some rest.. its been a long long day... another long day ahead 2moro!

안녕~

xo m

#44 mums visit - cOex mall

buying tickets at the kimchi museum

banditbooks.. where inyeong was

서인영!

next up was coex mall... this place was so big! in the tour books it says coex is the largest underground mall in asia.. i guess its true.

at coex we walked around and just shopped... we dropped by the kimchi museum which was ok.. it wasnt that interesting... just a big room with alot of kimchi on display.. hahaha we then went shopping.. some shops had awesome things.. others not so much... while walking around i met 서인영! (Seo In Yeong) for those that don't know.. she's from this korean girl band called jewelry.. she was also in the show we got married. I use to watch we got married so much and at first i hated her but then eventually got used it.. we didn do much at coex.. just shopped and ate =)

아녕~

xo m