Honestly, now.

Another post of mostly photos.  I went into Seoul a few times this weekend to do some Christmas shopping.  And while I REALLY want to take pictures of what I bought and post them, that would ruin some surprises.   But near Damdaemun (I think I’m spelling that right.  I’m really just too lazy to get the Loney Planet and check) there’s a temple in the middle of an intersection.

It was a long weekend, but a good one.  It’s Monday and I’m feeling a bit guilty for skipping Tae Kwon Do, but I’ve slept for ten hours and I’m still exhausted.

So I decided that I would stay home and  be lazy instead.  Oh yeah, I figured out how to work my heater.   Wow,  radiant heat through the floor is wonderful.  I can see why people sleep on the floor.

I could get used to this.

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The weekend was cold.  (And you know it’s cold when the Canadians are complaining.)  But honestly, it wasn’t too bad.  It’s a dry cold so it doesn’t seem as bad.

At times, it was quite windy as well (and that wasn’t fun).  But it never fails.  Just when you think that you’d really like to own a parka, a Korean woman will walk by in a mini-skirt that I wouldn’t wear in the summer.

My friend Chris finds this aspect of the country rather endearing.  (But then again, he claims if he were ruler of the world, women would get government-issued mini-skirts.  Well, only the hot women and there would be a screening committee.)

But other than cold and windy, it was a great weekend.  Sarah, Kerri, and I ate a nice Italian place on Saturday.  They forgot my order, so we each got a free glass of wine.

Oh yeah, and I went to the book store and picked up a few books for my winter reading.

Last picture is a bit random.  These are my Tae Kwon Do instructors.  On the left is Master J.  and on the right is our junior instructor (affectionally called Chuck Norris).