Tuesday Afternoon

After meeting the babies we headed out to explore. When we met Quinlan, we were lucky enough to stay a bit longer in Korea and so have already covered a lot of areas on our "places to see." It was raining all day so we opted for some inside activity and headed to the Coex Aquarium and Mall. The mall is similar to MOA with product specific stores, anchored by the very nice Hyundai Department store.

(Quin's Thomas the Train made the trip and is posed atop the shark.)

Our favorite part of exploring came when we had lunch. We decide to order Korean lunch at Hyundai; there is a Marketplace area, kind of like downtown Dayton's. There were tons of professionals in their suits and fashionable outfits ordering their lunch at one main checkout (called Forty Tomates?) The one checkout rings up sales for all of the vendors in the marketplace. You get a slip, wait for a flashing display board to show your number, then you go to that vendor and pick it up. Seems to work great. The only problem for us was everything was in Korean with no English.

We decided to write down our selection in Korean, based off of what the vendors had displayed in their windows, and handed it to the clerk. It worked! Here's our attempt at writing Korean:

And here's our delicious food! Yum!

To say the least, we were very proud of ourselves.

We later treated ourselves to a waffle on the street. This is for Charissa and Tom!