Love Lockdown (Mar 24)

• We got a pretty early start this morning – though, since it’s me, Anna and PP, we were running late. Our first stop (after breakfast of course) was Nam San Tower. We used the directions from our hostel guy to find the right subway stop…and it was a little tricky from there. I hiked up to the tower during orientation, but we came out at a different spot this time. We ended up taking the STAIRS all the way up! (Over 800 of them! For reference, the Eiffel Tower has 364 stairs and the Washington Monument has 897) It was a HUGE workout that none of us (except maybe PP) were ready for. Oops! But today’s weather turned out really nice so, other than the steep incline, it wasn’t too horrible. And the stairs led us right to the tower. It was fun to be there again, and show PP and Anna my favorite parts. We looked at the love locks, shopped around (and bought matching tourist-y t-shirts), and found the place where Gu Jun Pyo meets Jan Di!!! That was really exciting :D Oh and these 3 younger Korean boys asked to take their picture with us! So cute.
• We decided to take the shuttle bus back down to the city, both because we were tired and because we were running late. Exciting thing: my bus card worked on it! Cool. Funny thing: at the point where we turned left to go up the stairs, we could have turned right and gone up the path that I knew. Oh well. Awesome thing: another Korean man helped us figure out exactly when to get off. :)
• Myeondong is really cool. There is SO much there! Restuarants (Korean and Western), street food, shopping (mostly higher end, but also some street booths), theaters (this is where we were seeing Nanta) and everything is so lively and colorful.
• Nanta was fantastic again :) Honestly, I think the one we saw during orientation (which was a different theater...duh self! I thought it was the same until we found the building and I was like, "Oh...this doesn't look familiar") was better, but that might also be because that was my first time seeing it. I'm really glad I decided to take PP and Anna and that I decided to go with them.
• After Nanta, we met up with Sehee! It was so fantastic to see her again, though it was also weird to not have everyone from TaLK around...since that's the only time I've ever seen her. She took us to this yummy restuarant where we had a dish with ACTUAL cheese. MMMM! Then we shopped around Myeongdong for awhile before heading to shop near Ewha University. It was so nice to hang out with her and PP and Anna. They all got along really well and we talked the whole time. Sehee's profile picture is even of her and PP now! Can’t wait to see her again.
• Even though we returned to our hostel before 9 pm tonight, we are being lame, staying here and relaxing for the night. It's so nice to be in a room by ourselves and we had such a long day. I know lots of people go to Seoul to party, but we are totally okay with not doing that - and I love that about my besties :)