Going to Seoul for Chinese New Year

So to anyone who may read this blog and may do it in the future (or to remind myself to never do it again). Do not try to spend Chinese New Year in Seoul. To be honest, it sucks. You would think that the largest city in South Korea, with by far the largest ammount of foreigners, would have everything open on a day when government workers are going on holiday. Nope, it turns out next to nothing is open.

Cody, Fallon, and I came down to Soeul to plan on shopping for a few more Korea Soveniers and just do some things, like visiting a Dr. Fish Cafe for a pedicure done by tiny fish. We couldn't find the fish and most of the shops we were interested in were closed.

We started in Insadong, and since there was nothing there, we made out way to Itaewon, the foreigner district, hoping for more since all the foreigners would be off work looking for something to do... nope, next to nothing. We spent most of the day walking among the few shops open, just walking looking for stuff to do, eating indian food when we found the couple of open resteraunts (Foreign Resteraunt and Namaste), and riding the subway a lot. Although, we did visit What The Book and I picked up a Martha Stewart wedding magazine so that I could get some ideas.

Fallon's leaving for Thailand tomorrow morning, but Cody and I will be here a little bit longer tomorrow, and we are really hoping more stuff is open...at least in Insadong because then we can get something out of our trip. If not, I guess we'll just have to go home early and not really have done anything, but have gotten out of Mokpo for a couple of days.

I realize I complain lot in these blogs, so I will say... I guess we should have expected it because the first day or so of Chinese New Year is all about staying home with the family and cleaning for a new start to the year, so i guess we should have expected that the majority of the Population would be at home doing that.

I think I need to start some actual reviews of the places we've been though...that would keep me from complaining too much...