Okay, I'm turning back the clock a bit to our ninth day of the trip. On Day 9, we were back in Seoul and staying at Mari's uncle's place. We started the day with Jin Wan and Young Son and went to a traditional Korean village and park near the N Seoul Tower. Unfortunately, we picked the one day a week when the village interior was closed to visitors so we took some pictures around the gardens and headed out. It was freezing anyway!

Later, Young Son dropped us off in Insadong and Mari, Jin Wan, and I did some more touristy stuff and then visited the Jogyesa Buddhist Temple. This place was awesome! Hopefully you can get a sense for the coolness of the outside of the temple from the pictures. I wasn't able to take pictures of the inside, but it was even cooler. There were three giant 20+ foot tall golden Buddha statues inside and all kinds of ornate stuff inside the building. There were plenty of people there doing their meditation and prayers inside. Neat stuff.

Later in the day, we caught back up with Young Son and his wife Pok Soon and we headed out to play some pool and do some bowling. There are some cute pics there. On the way out, I was able to snap a few random evening shots of the Seoul city lights down a random street and the pics actually turned out. Woot! Anyway, this was just one little random street. Almost all the streets throughout the city are lit up like this at night so you can imagine driving through the city at night is a real trip.

Lastly are a few pics I snapped in the alleys around Young Son's place. There was an older lady selling cheap vegetables and frozen seafood in the alley each day ... hence the odd picture of the box of frozen fish in the street.