The presentation came and more importantly, it went! I'm finisheeeee! (As the Koreans would say...it is my own personal mission in life to teach Koreans not to put an extra long 'eeeee' at the end of everything. Orangeeeeee. Marcheeeeee. Finisheeeeee. ENOUGH WITH THE EEEE!) It went well-- they laughed when they were supposed to laugh, they volunteered when the were supposed to volunteer--or more I made them volunteer when they were supposed to volunteer--and I think it was a good time had by all, which is really all you can hope for when you're giving a presentation at a conference that nobody wants to be at. And now I'm finished and I can FINALLY rela
x. Probably not for long, but for now. :)Saturday night, Ali and I went to Namsan Tower at the top of Namsan mountain in the middle of Seoul. I’ve been up once before, but only during the day, and there was a big harvest festival going on on the top. This time, we went up during the evening to watch the sunset and try out N Grill–the revolving restaurant at the top of the tower.
We got our tickets to the cable car around 5:30, just in time to catch the sun nearing sunset over the Seoul horizon. The cable car was cool…and quick! We were up in about 2 minutes time! It was a beautiful time of day to be up above Seoul–we stood bundled up with our cameras, as everyone quietly watched the sun dip down over the buildings. It was a serene and magical experience watching the city turn from day to night as all the lights from the buildings, bridges, and cars came to life against the night sky.
Dinner at the top of the t
ower was cool--the view was amazing (Seoul is so huge!!!), the food was average, and price was astronomical. But I guess you pay for the view. And the VERY overly-priced bottles of wine.
After dinner, we bought a padlock and added ours to the thousands of others that people added to the fence lining the top of the mountain. Was a nice way to spend our '2-years-ago-we-met' anniversary. I can't believe it's been 2 years since that afternoon in Beijing when we locked eyes as Ali came in from a day of biking and I was 5 minutes away from a 12-hour round of throwing-up-from-the-Chinese- flu! Oh the memories. :)
Ali leaving our mark on Seoul.
Our lock is in there somewhere!
A view from the hole in the big stone wall surrounding the hill.
4 comments:
very cool. i was there last summer and took the cable car up too. it's so much faster than the meandering hike we did a few years back.
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like the padlock thing. makes for cool pics! congrats on two years. time goes fast. i just realized that its been 4 years minus two months since we all graduated. can it really have been that long? crazy.
sounds like a dream! and Happy anniversary!! :) It feels like yesterday that we got the excited email about your wonderful China trip....from the way it was writen we knew there had to be a guy involved...i'm glad it's Ali!
I can't believe we graduated almost 4 YEARS AGO!!!!!!!! I feel so old...
And Katie...I'm glad it's Ali too!!! :)
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