西洋오랑캐

On the morning of the ninth, 진희 had to get a massage, so I headed off to meet my family and spend the morning with them. After getting a quick bite to eat together, the family and I head back to Insadong, since we had cut our previous visit short due to having to pick my sister up at the airport. Insadong was all about shopping on this day, and I was seriously playing translator due to the fact that aside from my sister and myself, no one in my family can speak a word of Korean.

Basically anytime a member of my family had a question beyond “How much is this?” I was summoned into action like I was some sort of Pocket Monster. “FAMILY MEMBER WITH KOREAN LANGUAGE ABILITY…I CHOOSE YOU!!!” My family seemed to enjoy the shopping and picked up a fairly random assortment of loot. Also Ailinn bought some meat on a stick.

At roughly 1:30, 진희 appeared and we all headed back towards the area in which I now reside. The women were going to go with 진희 and get some sort of spa treatment…the men were left with me, and I intended to do something “manly.” So after a way too lengthy bus ride we were at the beauty salon dropping the ladies off. I then headed off with the men.

We first stopped off to get our eat on. The menu du jour: “New York” style pizza, which my brother rated as “Pretty alright,” and my aunt’s fiance (a current NYC resident) rated, “amazingly cheap.” With something lining our stomaches, we headed to a bar / cafe called Goodfellas, but since it was decided that “What happens in Good Fellas stays in Good Fellas,” I’m not really at liberty to discuss what happened there.

At the appointed time we ran through a sudden rain storm to meet up with the ladies. They were all throughly refreshed, as were the fellas, so from there we headed off to Jamshil to ride a boat on the Han River. By the time we arrived, the rain had stopped, which was totally awesome. We got on the boat and got our cruise on, learning all about the various bridges along the river, as well as some King that wanted to live with seagulls and built a pavillion in order to do so…though perhaps I heard that tale wrong.

At the end of the cruise, we headed to the 63 Building for some dinner (돈까스), and then we intended to view the city from the observation deck. Unfortunately the observation deck was broken, or under repair, or just closed for the evening, so a viewing of the city was scratched and we all headed back to our homes.

So concludes part 3 of my wedding. If you want to see some of the photos from the days activities, be sure to check out my Flickr account, and tune in next time for even more tales from my wedding!