Insadong

After viewing the palace we decided it was time to eat. Since the original plan was to wander around Insadong, we headed that direction. We took stock of out options and then settled on a place that said "Spagetti" in big red letters on the side of a building. It was delicious! We all enjoyed our meals and had a good time chatting with Shin-hok and Hokunani.

Matt met up with us as Amber had plans to meet with a separate group of friends. Since he didn't have a cell phone, it was a bit difficult to know exactly where we would meet up. We walked in the direction of the subway and saw Matt lumbering towards us. Huzzah! We did a 180 and headed back in the direction of Insadong. The first shop on the right hand side of the street was a guitar shop. It had beach guitars (3/4 size and more narrow) in the window. Matt stopped on a dime and asked if he could take a look. We went in and the vendor showed us the guitar. Matt started to enquire about other ones and in 15 minutes Matt chose, tested and bought a guitar. We love Matt for his spontaneity!

After that we continued looking around. We actually entered all of 3 stores and then headed to an artisan building. It was about 4 stories high and instead of stairs most of the floors had a small incline. It was similar to the rest, but a bit more condensed. Matt stopped in at a tie shop just browsing, but it was interesting to see all the shades of pink and purple. I was keeping my eye out for a new purse, but didn't find anything I liked.

At then end of the browsing we headed to Red Mango for delicious frozen yogurt. With our bellies full and our hearts content we took the subway back home.

The next day we were thinking about going to Yeouido to see the famous cherry blossoms. We weren't quite sure what time all the festivities took place and were skeptical about what we'd actually see because all of our cherry blossoms had already been replaced by leaves. With too many doubts and enough of a desire to chilax at home, we did just that. We heard later that Yeouido was completely disappointing this year as the cherry blossoms did indeed come early.