Korea (the South one)

This is possibly the most surreal day weve ever experienced. We left the Tallahassee airport 25 hours ago and the sun still has not gone down. We flew straight from Atlanta to Korea on a 14 hour flight. The craziest part is we went waaaaay north, almost to the North Pole, and then came back down flying north-to-south into Korea. Guess thats the whole curvature of the earth effect or whatever. We had this one meal on the plane that was some sort of rice and steamed "stuff" that I thought was pretty good. Jen "wasn't hungry" aka couldnt stand it. But the ride wasn't to terrible. Jen had the window seat, I had the middle, and a ~85yr old Korean woman was in the aisle seat. Wish I could have seen us trying to communicate with her the whole flight: priceless. Anyways, she was hilarious. But when we touched down, we were SOOO excited! Its around 55 degrees here though so our plans of visiting the beach tomorrow probably wont happen. Were staying at a hotel near the airport which isnt actually IN seoul, but on an island near Seoul. Anyways, I dont know if this is all of Korea, or just here, or just this day, but it is dreary-er than those towns you see in eastern europe from WWII footage: there is NOTHING going on here. But after the travel, were grabbing some food and passing out. Well update when we get to Singapore!


P.S. Im updating this before we head out but this place isn't as depressing as it once seemed. Its nothing to oogle over, but we stumbled upon the beach which had a bunhc of really interesting restaurants. The only downside is it was purely seafood which jen does not like. It wasn't exactly appealing to me either, however, since NONE of it was cooked: not the clams, mussels, stingrays, conch, fish, crab, etc. We just had mongolian beef at the hotel, but it is safe to say we are looking forward to not having Korean food...Singapore, here we come!