It was a dreary looking Sunday...
The pollution was thick and we were feeling like it looks. But luckily Edward (former SAU student, now teaching with us here in Korea) had invited us to go with some of his level one students to a palace.
Happily we rode the subway. See their smiles?
We are learning to smile with "peace" signs. We are becoming so culturally aware, don't you think?
At first the guards were menacing!
But they warmed up after a while!
First we had to pass over the bridge and cleanse ourselves of our wicked thoughts. The statues were there to scare the evil spirits away.
And boy were we glad we did! Otherwise these two statues would have come to life and killed us with their horns!!
Some statues were not as scary.
Edward and I even tried to sneak up close to one!
There were beautiful things to see, each building was colored brightly.
This painting is over 150 years old.
A beautiful private get-away location for the royal family.
We all think we are royalty and should be allowed to go there...
but sadly we were not allowed and had to only look like royalty from the outside.
Otherwise the man-eating carp might have gotten us!
Even so, Matthew and I wanted to make sure and show our love for the place.
There were more statues to befriend and so Edward and I (being of the Tiger zodiac) were able to get up close and personal with this one.
Natalie and Matthew were even able to tame this pig statue as well (since they were of the pig Chinese zodiac). We were very proud of ourselves.
At this point Matthew began to feel rather hungry.
But he didn't want to eat the "silk" worms that were being sold on the streets.
So the students took us to a traditional Korean restaurant in Insa-dong. We are not totally sure of everything we ate, but certain things were pretty yummy.
Then we went for a walk and saw many more building and people. Statues were now limited, so we were a little sad.
But we were able to be entertained with music and art!
All in all it was a very full and good day.
More or different pictures will be put here.
1 comment:
the palace looks really cool. I like the guards.
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