In mid-April, John and I celebrated our six month anniversary. We decided to be uncool and actually celebrate it, using it as an excuse to spend a night in Seoul and go to the DMZ. So we met on Saturday morning and proceeded to do some more sight-seeing, trying to see some things that we hadn't seen during Seollal. So we checked out another castle complex...
visited the Jogyesa temple to see it all decked out for Buddha's upcoming birthday...
and did some wandering.
We also had a great dinner at an American-style diner before finding our guesthouse in Gangnam. We made an early night of it since we had to wake up early on Sunday morning to head to the DMZ.
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| John took this picture of me. Best photo I've ever taken? It's possible. |
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| John in the castle. He's the handsome one in the foreground. |
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| There was a lovely free art museum inside the castle complex with this fountain outside of it. I like the contrasts of this shot, with the ultra-modern City Hall and various skyscrapers in the background. |
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| palace gate |
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| me in front of the temple |
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| poppies |
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| paper lanterns for Buddha's birthday |
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| a water scene, in paper |
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| elephant lantern |
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| The temple guardians stand below hundreds of lanterns. |
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| There was some kind of a footrace about to start (they later ran past us). I love the monks in their traditional garb with trainers and race tags. |
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| The old temple tree peeks out above the lanterns. |
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| Pikachu! |
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| Cheonggyecheon Stream in the spring |
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| far from home |
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| Yi Sunshin in Gwanghwamun Square |
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| King Sejong in Gwanghwamun square |
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| I can't even explain how exciting country gravy is when you live in Korea. |
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| flashy buildings in Gangnam |
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