Ruminants and fermented rice

Asia, South Korea, Seoul



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Only real intention was shopping, eating and seeing another sliver of Seoul. Laura identified a number of brands that fit her stringent requirements of products worthy of going on her face, and I found since hobby shops in the same area.

Taking the train back to the college area we struggled to find the basement hobby shop, but in so doing found an Uninsured, an all natural cosmetics store that happened to be running a franchise wide sale.

Laura was very excited to finally find The products she was looking for, I was excited for her, I know how disappointing it is to go into shop after shop finding almost the right thing, but always walking away empty handed. She bought a bunch of stuff, at fantastic prices, the price rang up in wons, which we then knock 15% of because of the exchange rate (about 1120 KRW to USD at the time), then the sale discounts kicked in, and then no tax cause we weren't from and there.

An then we went to breakfast with some sheep

It's a cafe with fancy waffles and sheep outside, but kinda inside. This place was in the e basement of a mall, but it had an open air patio. and here, peotected from the elements but still getting fresh air were a pair of sheep, that were super chil, and mega fluffy.

I got an espresso waffle, i think espresso was actually in the batter, or dough, i dont know the semantics of waffle production, and it had coffee and vanilla gelato on it, and laura had the banana and chocolate waffle, with chocolate wafle, covered in bananas and ice cream. We also opted for smoothies, I a blueberry, and she the citrus.

the food was very good, and very comforting.

We then wandered through a few more cosmetics shops, before going to the last hobby shop, where i spotted some rare stuff, but held off on the big ticket items, and got a small thing to remember korea by.

Around there was a shopping district slammed with college students, bought more gifts for people, and then hurried home.

We hurried home because we wanted to hit up the post office and send back another load of stuff, because the Korean Post is very inexpensive, like half the price of japan for the same services.

we successfully mailed a box of candy to lauras work, and a box of stuff to the Olin household for ourselves.

Stopping in the quickmart in our apartment building we picked up some local liquor to try, spending 12USD we got a little bottle of rice wine, a bottle of blackraspberry wine and a bottle of some flowery stuff. for booze purchased at a convinience store, costing so little we were not disappointed,

a little drunken we walked up to a canal that has a fancy lighted cultural art installation thing. big inflatable caricatures from presumably korean myths and stories were in the middle of the canal. We stepped away from the canal to eat. we found a chicken place that was very full, always a good sign.

we ordered the glazed chicken, it was divine. essentially a wholechicken, scissor cut, fried up, and covered in their sauce. korean barbecue is strongly encouraging us to reevaluate our future residence considerations.

by the time we got out the canal lights were done, but we still walked the path all the way home.

going to bed a little early in advance of our departure from korea.