First post or Off to South Korea

I'm writing this at about 1:15pm Korean time. We will land in Seoul in less than two hours. I'm technogeekily obligated to tell you the iPad is at 54% battery, which is pretty much insane. We didn't use it at all on the flight from Boston to San Francisco, but it's been on the majority of the past 10 hours from San Francisco to Korea. Katie and I watched: an episode of House, Stargate Universe, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother and BBC's Life. That's about three and a half hours of video playback, volume at maximum (split to our headphones), in addition to playing the game HarborMaster HD obsessively until I beat my high score (an hour or more), as well as reading a bunch of blog posts in the excellent RSS reader NewsRack. I'd say that's more than six hours use, aka insane battery life.

So enough about the iPad, here's our tentative plan for the next couple of days.

When we get to Seoul we'll catch a bus of some sort to the hostel we're staying at and check in. At that point it will probably be five or six o'clock so I don't know what we'll be up to - probably explore Seoul a bit and grab some food.

Tomorrow (Friday) we're doing a tour of the DMZ which should be neat. Apparently there are a bunch of tunnels that used to be used to sneak people across the border (I'm not sure which way). I don't think that will take the whole day so we'll probably end up exploring Seoul some more tomorrow night.

Saturday we're meeting Kim (Katie's old roommate that lives in Busan) in Gyeongju to do a temple stay. The name of the temple is Golgulsa. So we'll do that Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon.

Sunday we'll head back to Busan with Kim... and from then on we don't have many plans. Check back to see what we've been up to! (assuming we keep up the motivation to keep writing this)

And.... We're back in the hostel after exploring Seoul for a few hours. We're exhausted and don't have a lot to report, aside from the fact that we are big westernized wusses when it comes to trying new food. For dinner tonight we went into a random Korean place we found on the streets of Seoul and it was... interesting. The food wasn't bad we just mostly had no idea what we were doing. The people working at the restaurant didn't speak any English so we had to sort of point and sound out what we wanted. Then when the food came it was heating/cooking? on our table, but we immediately put it into our plates and the man working there told us to dump it back into the serving dish. Anyway, it was fish with a few vegetables in a somewhat spicy sauce served with boiled rice. The fish was served with skin and bones which was a bit odd to us. All in all it could have been worse, but could have also been better.

Time for some much needed rest.