Seoul round two

I should have written this two weeks ago when everything was fresher in my mind, but work started up again, and laziness set in. I'll write about as much as I can remember. After visiting Namsan Tower it was dinner time. We made our way out of the cable car station down onto the main street. We weren't really sure of where the train station was, and the walk back to the main part of town was a couple of kilometers, and we were exhausted from our trek up the mountain the entire day. This cab driver approached us and we asked him where the train station was. He cajoled us into getting into his taxi-van. Cabs in Korea tend to be pretty cheap. But this man's meter was running a mile a minute, and he took us the most round about way he could to Seoul Station. I was pretty pissed off at him. When we finally did reach the train station we made our way to the Itaewon stop.
Itaewon is known as USA street. I think a more fitting name would have been International street. There are a lot of foreigners and shops for most everything you'd want. It was weird stepping into Itaewon. I could understand everyone's conversation. I had to be careful what I was saying because other people could understand me too. Part of me felt like I wasn't in Korea anymore, but rather a college town with much older people.

I have to say, this trip to Seoul was the first time that I actually felt like a tourist in Korea. Even when I first arrived to Changwon I didn't feel like a tourist. I felt more like a lost fish in a big ocean full of people that didn't speak my language, but definitely not a tourist. When I go exploring in Changwon and Masan I'm exploring my own domain. But, walking around the streets of Seoul and in places like Itaewon I certainly did not feel like I belonged there.

I don't think I'd ever want to live in a place like Itaewon while living abroad. It seems pointless to me to go live in a foreign country such as Korea and live in a neighborhood where the things that make Korea, Korea are pretty much non-existent.
Here's a pretty back alley way we stumbled into while looking for a bookstore in Itaewon. We never did find that bookstore but we found a bunch of good places to eat. I will say the one thing Itaewon had going for it were all the places you could eat out. We settled on a place called Thai Orchid because both Nolan and I are pretty big fans of Thai food and we hadn't had any since arriving to Korea.Yupp, it was all yummy in our tummies.
After dinner we did a bit more wandering. The later it got the more crowded the streets seemed, swarming with inebriated English speakers.

The next day we decided we wanted to head back a little early so that we would make it back home at a decent hour. We grabbed lunch at a Moroccan place named, Marrakesh Night's. It was complete with hookahs and authentic couscous.This was one of the things we ordered. I forgot the name, but as all the food we'd had during our stay in Seoul it was just as delicious.

We got back Saturday night, and spent Sunday drinking coffee and reading the entire day. Pretty relaxing, oh and then there is this.In between our coffee drinking, and reading, we like to pop into the arcade from time to time and shoot zombies. I took this picture after a zombie had killed me and I was no longer of any use. There's always one or two kids that come watch in awe as we shoot at our enemies.