Thursday

Sorry, we just vegged out for most of Thursday and Friday so I didn't post anything, but then today was really busy. Still trying to catch up 100%!

Thursday morning we met my wife's aunt and cousin and ate this huge multi-course meal:
Pumpkin porridge, beef carpaccio (picture 1), salad and mung bean jelly (picture 2), seafood nurungji (burned rice? It was cool because they put baked/hardened rice in a hot pot and poured seafood stuff on top - picture 3 is the whole thing, picture 4 is one serving), mung bean pancake and shrimp tempura (picture 5), dumplings (picture 6), sushi and pork belly (picture 7), bibimbap and seaweed soup (picture 8), and rounding it out was some shaved ice (picture 9). We were sooo full afterwards! It was a really fun and enjoyable meal, especially because of her aunt. At one point, her aunt was on the phone and when the dish came out she put her arm out in front of her daughter, stopping her from doing anything before she and I had taken a picture. Then she proceeded to frame and take the picture on her phone, and then immediately went back to talking! Apparently she hadn't even paused the conversation to take the picture. So funny.

Then my wife and I were dropped off at a place called Aqua planet or something, which was like an aquarium and zoo. There were many elementary school aged children, I guess they were on a field trip. We saw jellyfish (picture 10), a short show with synchronized swimmers in a fish tank with a scuba diver, penguins, seals, a very big and funny walrus, some otters, whose cage area had a place where you could shake hands with them (picture 11), jaguars (picture 12 - with an odd Korean girl who happened to have a jaguar patterned cardigan and was bothering them), among other animals.

Apparently owned by the same large corporation is a water and snow park right next door. One of the water slides starts from outside high up and spirals around before going inside (picture 13).

After spending time walking around some nearby shops we stopped for coffee and a smoothie (picture 14), and then her aunt took us to a place that she said had the best tangsuyeok she's ever had (sweet and sour pork, picture 15). I think it may just have lived up to its name. The batter was super light and since it was rice flour, parts of the inside, after you took a bite past the crispy exterior, were kind of like mochi! After that we had a nice hour on the bus back to her grandparents, and went to sleep soon after.