Vacation!!

Happy holidays everyone! Alexandra and I finally get to explore the city and spend some quality time together, but we're both suffering from a terrible cold! Mine is not as bad as hers, but we've been confined to my apartment for more than 24 hours, which really sucks.

We went out last Thursday, just the two of us to Hongdae for dinner and a night out on the town. It was Christmas eve and we had dinner at midnight and went to two bars until 5:30 a.m., which is so not like me, but time sort of flew. We had a good time, got into a tiff, got into a cab to take us home. When we arrived back at my house, I told the cab driver that I didn't live here and Alexandra was like, yes you do!! Then I went straight to bed and she stayed up making a list of why we got into our tiff. So when we woke up the next morning she asked me if I was still mad at her and I told her no, then she read me the list, which I can't stop talking about. She says that I have too many rules at my house, which I never noticed I had. So I'm trying to work on that, but not trying that hard.

Last Saturday we went snowboarding two hours away from Seoul. It was a trek and a half to finally get on the mountain, which was all faux snow, but we had a good time. It took me two times down the bunny hill to finally get my snow legs back, and it was Al's first time snowboarding, so she had a difficult time, but she tried her darnedest! I have two huge bruises on the side of my leg from thinking I was cool enough to take off my board while standing on it...I fell right on top of it! Hilarious!

We have become obsessed with finding warm hats and have recently purchased Dunkin Doughnut hats with bears on the sides, where our ears are. They were only $3 or 3,000 won, and now we want these penguin hats that are all the rage from Baskin Robbins, the only problem is that they won't sell them to us, we have to purchase an ice cream cake to get one penguin hat, and the ice cream cakes are at least $20, which economically don't make sense. I mean we could get almost 7 Dunkin Doughnut hats with that kind of money!

Then we went to explore the city with one of my teacher friends, Meghan and her visiting brother Keith, who we have given multiple names since then which include (KeithEKins, Kikers, Kiki and K.K.). We tried to go to Seoul Tower, but it was snowing so much that the taxi drivers wouldn't take us there. So that night we decided to have a dinner at "Pig & Cow" which is just what we call the restaurant behind my apartment because they have a picture of a pig and a cow on it. We proceeded to drink mass amounts of Soju and beer and have a fun dance party. I videoed part of it and may post it, but may not....I still haven't decided.

We've sampled a couple different noodle places and have named them Nice Noodle and Mean Noodle. At mean noodle, when you walk in the door they basically ask you what you want right then and there. The only problem is, I always think that they are asking how many in my party, so I simply respond with two and throw up the peace sign. We found nice noodle the other day and the owner is awesome and speaks English. So far Al and I have been there 3 times in the last 3 days. We tried this awesome seafood noodle soup last night that was really spicy and loved it. It may be our meal of choice and it was only $6. So you can't do better than that. I will promise to start posting pictures of the food, kids, Seoul and whatnot as soon as I take some good ones. Hope you are all doing well and enjoying the holidays! I miss you a bunch!