Highlights of my Day... Saturday, November 7

1. Had been anticipating a little day-trip date in Seoul with Snickers all week and so today we headed off to Insadong in Seoul. I love the Insadong Market for it’s constant busy streets that are loaded with a fabulous array of shops ranging from traditional Korean culture souvenirs to high end clothing and hand made jewelry. The streets of Insadong are always cluttered with people enjoying various street vendors, street goodies, street performers, and there’s really something for everyone there.

2. I particularly love the “dragon hair shops” that put on quite the entertaining performances while making their traditional honey sweets that they’ve labeled as dragon hair. They usually have three guys yelling out quite the chant that has the random English word hear and their to appeal to the foreign crowd.

3. I had to snicker over Snickers and the fact that today marked his first time to Insadong. I visit Insadong every year, at least once in the summer and once in the winter.

4. A trip to Insadong isn’t complete without indulging in some super sweet, super creamy, and super thick ice cream. It takes more like Italian ice cream but the performance that comes with buying a cone of this ice cream is worth it’s weight in cold. I really should record what buying an ice cream cone at this place is like. The dude strikes up a conversation with each customer and then does random things to entertain them. My conversation started with the dude laughing at me when I responded with “I’m from Cheonan” in Korean when he asked me where I was from and then I practically made him deaf when he pretended to throw the loaded ice cream cone at me and I screamed out… hahaha.


5. There was really no purpose to our Seoul venture beyond the simple enjoying of each other’s company and well, we definitely accomplished that. Snickers is quite the hopeless romantic and sensitive guy and so today I got an overdose of it from him. He was publicly all over me like white on rice… hahaha. I blamed it on the mockalee (traditional rice wine) that he had drank at dinner. Well, that and the fact that he’s been so super giddy around me lately.

6. Playing dress up at various stores was hilarious and resulted in a bunch of Japanese tourists taking our picture.

7. “Amy your soul mate” Snickers mumbled out in a super low voice. “Who was that?” I jokingly asked. “That was God” was his response. Snickers has been blurting out these lines a lot lately and insists that God has personally told him that he made me for him. He even goes so far as to call me Angel, too. Snickers use to never really believe in God but ever since my mother miraculously went from having her days numbered to being completely cancer-free and surrounded by dazed and confused medical doctors, Snickers has really reconsidered his train of thought. “How come God doesn’t talk to me like he talks to you?” I asked him today. “Because you’re Polish. Polish are stubborn.” Very true… hahaha. “He talks but you’re too stubborn to listen.”

8. “Next year we’ll come back here a different couple” he told me. “We’ll be a married couple.”

9. At Gangnam Express Terminal Snickers and I both went our separate ways. He had to head over to his mother’s house to help her clean it for moving day and so I headed back to Cheonan. I see Snickers everyday but watching him board his bus and leave without me felt rather sad.

10. I contemplated heading over to Little America with some people I know but when I finally arrived in Cheonan I was too pooped to party. I popped in a movie but within 30 minutes or so I was out like a light.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What hotspot do you like in Korea?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
You can fall in love at first sight with a place a
s with a person.
-- Alec Waugh