Minnows and Peanuts?!?!?

Well yesterday we ventured into Insadong which is a large shopping area. There were many Korean restaurants and we wandered around until we found one that had pictures and some English. I am trying to be adventurous but I am just not up for eel, octopus or squid. I ordered bulgogi which a Korean beef dish that I am familiar with. It was not what I was expecting (it came in a big pot like soup and was mixed with several unidentifiable things) but it wasn't bad. We had several side dishes which is common in Korea. One of them no kidding was little fried minnows mixed with peanuts. How do I know they were minnows you might ask. It is because they still had their little faces and tails. Needless to say I didn't eat much of my lunch and we ended up at TGI Fridays last night for a margarita and a burger. We will try to find another place for a Korean food adventure today.

We are still struggling a little with the time change. We are exhausted by 9:00 and fall immediately asleep but I woke up at 2:00 and couldn't get back to sleep until after 4:00. By the time our bodies have this figured out it will be time to come home.

The weather here has been lousy. We hear you have 90 degrees at home. It was chilly and rainy all day yesterday and today looks to be the same. We think our vacation weather has been cursed since our rainy Vermont vacation with Jeff and Polly. Perhaps we will have to have a successful weather vacation with them before our luck will turn. We had a very strange experience where we were standing at a stop light together under one small umbrella when an elderly Korean man walked up and joined us under our umbrella. He stood there and spoke Korean at us very quickly until the light changed to green. We don't even know how to say we don't speak Korean in Korean so all we could do was stand and smile at him and laugh about it later.

We decided we will go visit a few museums to do something that allows us to be dry. We are off to Itaewon to do some more shopping and have lunch and then we are going to the Korean war museum.