Well we made it....one day down one more day of siteseeing before we can see/get Grace. We are anxiously counting down the hours.......We just want to get her and get on a plane.
We started the day with a walk to my new favorite street vendor. She makes the best egg sandwich--white bread, egg with corn and other vegetables in it, ham (might be Spam), and cheese then she puts some kind of sauce on it, kind of like poppy seed salad dressing. It is really delicious. We have been there the last 2 mornings and will probably go a few more times. This morning we also got a sandwich at another vendor. Very similar but it had pickles, ketchup and mustard also. They made the sandwich and folded it in half and stuffed it into a paper cup.

After breakfast we went on the city tour with a couple here from Nebraska adopting a baby boy. We had a really good time seeing the city. We saw an ancient emperors palace. (picture on left) We also went to the National Museum. It was interested but strange. You know when you go to a museum or something like that at home what ever exhibit you are seeing you already know a little about it? It was not like that at this museum. We knew nothing about what we were looking at. We saw the origin of the Korean written language (Hangul). Pretty interesting. There are thousands of symbols. Our tour guide said Korea has been proven as one of the simplest languages to learn. Can you imagine learning a language with over a thousand symbols?


There are so many people living in Seoul. The whole country of Korea is only the size of Michigan (I think). I am not sure how many million people live in the whole country but it seems like there are millions and millions just in Seoul. Here is a picture of the area where we shopped....can you imagine John shopping in this crowd? The shopping did not last long. Way to many people for John!


We had a traditional Korean lunch with our tour guide and the couple from Nebraska. Bulgolgi, kimchi, rice, seaweed salad, turnips, raw squid in hot sauce and soup. Pretty much the same as we had last night.

Anyway, tomorrow we are going to do some more shopping. Probably Itaewon. It is near the US Airforce Base. Lots of English there. Today we spent the afternoon at Inson Dong. Kind of an outdoor market. Tons of people. Lots of neat things to look at. We bought some gifts to give to Grace when she is older. Also I bought her some of the cute barrettes that she was wearing in her hair when we met her. I looked all over this afternoon for those barrettes but as we were getting back on the subway to come home I made one more stop.....and there they were in a shop in the subway. They are really cool barrettes.....they are like little springs. You pull the spring apart, pull it into the hair and then release....really cool invention.....haven't seen anything like that in the states.

I know you guys don't want to hear about all this stuff but we am just trying to pass the time until we can see Grace again. I know we are in a beautiful foreign country, the birth place of our daughter but all we want to do is get her and bring her home! We are really just passing the time until then. Monday at 3pm can't come soon enough.
Talk to you soon,
John and Krista