This family trip was booked as early as April this year, well the plane tickets atleast, thanks to Cebu Pacific's sale. But due to unforeseen circumstances, my father wasn't able to come with us. We met up with my brother and mother at the airport on the day of our departure. They've already checked in at the counter when we arrived. Joema had work so I had to wait for him before going to the airport. But all was well after we've checked in. We ate first before proceeding to the gate. Here's the hubby getting some zzzz's because he came straight from work.
Our flight was supposed to leave at 3:55pm but it was delayed for over an hour. Tsk Cebu Pac! When it was finally time to board, we lined up with the other passengers and walked towards the plane only to be told to turn back and wait again. Ugh! But we only waited for a few minutes after that and we were already boarding the plane. We were supposed to arrive at 8:45pm Korea time (they are one hour ahead of us) but because of the delays I think we arrived there after 10pm. Good thing there was someone who picked us up although he was complaining a little bit about how long he was waiting for us there haha. The ride from Incheon to Seoul was more than an hour so we arrived at the hotel before midnight. But look how busy the streets of Seoul are even at that time of the night.
We stayed at Young Dong Hotel which is located in the district of Gangnam-gu. The nearest subway station is about a block from our hotel and the station is called Sinsa. It was a fairly good neighborhood because there were a lot of restaurants within the area. But on our first night because we were starving, we just went to the first Korean restaurant we saw - Korean Restaurant Sinseon Seolnongtang is the name of the place (based on their posters). No we didn't oreder those in the picture below.
We ordered the Korean Sausage. It looked good on the menu but it wasn't good in real life. Blech! It's like ground beef or something..like gluten and then made into a sausage. It's rubbery and slides inside your mouth. My husband only ate the vegetables, my brother was happy with the kimchi. In every restaurant we ate in in Seoul, they always serve kimchi as side dish, you don't even have to order it. Although we were all not satisfied with what we ate. Okay, I looked happy there because I haven't tasted our food yet hahaha.
Cute cup we took at the restaurant.
After eating we went to a nearby 7-11. Look at all those Korean products ahehehe. We are definitely in Korea because we can't understand a thing!
We bought soju which we drank when we got back to our hotel. That drink is something else! Lakas tama! No wonder the Koreans we saw at the street that night were lying there without a bit of care in the world because they were sooo drunk! We didn't even finish the whole bottle (it was me, Joema and Jay drinking). It lasted for the three nights we were in Korea.
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