Seoul ....

I really like Seoul, it's a great city, can't wait til I have a chance to go back.
So we caught the bus to Seoul on Friday night, after Sarah had managed to delete half of her song from her MP3 player by accident and wanted to hang around her for longer to fix it, fat chance, like I was gonna allow that to happen, we took the adapter with us.
Met Vanessa at the bus terminal, she gave us maps, then we got an the bus, took about 3 and a half hours. Main problem was that the bus was way too hot, first my throat dried out and then my nose started running, yup only took 3 and a hlf hours for me to get a cold (and now today, monday I am still paying for it, so I took a sick day).
So got to Seoul, well motel with very evil and steep stairs, man was it hard to drag Sarah's suitcase, bot up and down them, just before 2am. Then had to try and sleep, small problem - couldn't breathe, so no sleep for me - so Saturday morning, sore throat, runny/blocked nose and headache (sounds like a head cold to me).
So, we got up at like 10am - took a taxi to city hall and went about looking for the national Museum of History - took an age to find - first went to Deoksugung Palace - am gonna chuck on a piture of the throne room, I'm sure you'll figure out which one it is. Then had lunch, and went to seek out the Museum, on the map it looked like it was directly behind the palace, guess what? It wasn't. It was about a kilometre away, evil bastardy place, weren't allowed cameras, so no pics of that - was pretty boring anyway, so we didn't stay long. Next, we hit Seoul tower, got to ride in a Cable car too - had to wit in line for 40 minutes first though. Did you know that Korea is closer to Greece and Italy than it is to NZ, I am currently about 10,000 km away from home. Will put in the picture with the distance to Aucland and Wellington on it from Seoul Tower. Seoul is one amazingly huge city, could fit all the cities in NZ in it and there would still be plenty of space, the view from the Tower is excellent.
So, got back to the motel just after 5, died for a couple of hours and then went out for food and shopping around 8, found heaps of cool stuff, bought wall hangings, paintings, a cool dragon bell, another jewelry box, this time with a peacock on it (my bird). Plus a buunch of other souveniery stuff for everyone else.
Sunday, after another night of little sleep, we did more shopping, then a sudden rain storm that tried to drench us. Managed to avoid most of it though. Came home early xoz I felt like shit, went to be and took a sick day on Monday.
That's all folks!