New Friends!!

On Friday night, I packed my bags and headed to Shannon’s house for the weekend. We have the weekend plus Monday and Tuesday for Chuseok. Woohoo!! On Saturday morning, we woke up and got ready to go into Seoul. We met up with Sarah, Shannon’s friend from one floor up, and we all headed to the bus stop. On our way, we stopped at Rotti Bun, which is one of the restaurants inside Lotte Mart. They serve really delicious pastries that basically melt in your mouth when you eat them. That was the perfect start to my morning.

Sarah, Shannon, and I took the bus to the subway, where we rode to Seoul Station. There, we met up with five of Sarah’s friends, Anna, Duncan, Claire, Amy, and Doreal. We all walked around town and did some shopping. We stopped at a delicious restaurant for lunch where I had chicken teriyaki, something that I haven’t had since I’ve been in Korea.

After that, we all split up and went our separate ways. Sarah, Shannon, Amy, Doreal, and I all went to another area of Seoul, Myeongdong, where we walked around some more and did more window-shopping. At around 6pm, Sarah, Shannon, and I started heading back towards home. Sarah was ready to go all the way home, so she continued on. Shannon and I decided to hang around Seoul Station and look around a little bit. We went into all the expensive shops, and then walked around the Lotte Mart there.

At around dinnertime, we decided to go to Itaewon. Shannon had never been there, so we wanted to go check it out. (Itaewon is the really Westernized area of Korea.) We walked around a little bit, and then went to The Frypan for some chicken and chips. :) We walked around a little bit more, went to the Foreign Food Market where Shannon bought some peanut butter, and then caught the subway back home.

On the subway, we decided to finish a movie that we were watching last night on her laptop. We invited Sarah and Reuel to join us, and then stopped at GS 25 for some snacks on our way home. You can’t watch a movie without snacks, right? :)