Greetings from Seoul!

Greetings from Seoul!! This is a quick video from our hotel room when we checked in this morning!

We love how San Francisco-esque Seoul is -- the hills, the fog -- it so reminds us of home!

Our first stop! (Seoul)

A market -- of course!

Namdaemun market is a local market. I thought it would be filled with Korean crafts, but instead it was where the locals shop -- for anything! From food to housewares to clothing -- the market had it all!

A street scene from the entrance to the market!

Cheesy Meghan -- I know. But I love street markets!

I love the subway! (Seoul)

One of the really interesting things about Seoul, is that South Korea is in the process of romanising their alphabet. Practically what this means, is that all signs (everything) is written in characters. There are some English translations of names and places, and we have a good map, but you don't quite realise (or at least I never did) how much you rely on roman lettering!

Regardless, we are having a great time getting around on our own and using the subway! Its a bit like the Tube, only there are many more lines that go farther out to the suburbs. As far as city travel goes though -- its fantastic!

We were trying to get the characters on the sign, but the flash slightly distorted the picture.

So here it is without the flash! Much better!

This is the wall of the station. The arrow points in the direction we are heading in, and Noksapyeong is the station we are at and the other stations on the sign are the station before this one and the station after.

Just because.

Doesn't Jason look nice and relaxed??

Mui Ne Flowers.

Because its my blog and I adore flowers. We spent a half an hour walking the grounds of the resort photographing flowers. The resort gardeners are awesome to say the least!

Dragon Fruit. (Vietnam)

Dragon fruit is a local fruit. Its pink on the outside and white on the inside with thousands of tiny black seeds. We liked dragon fruit -- its actually a bit bland given how cool it looks, but its very good. I noticed when we were driving to Mui Ne there were these trees all over the landscape. I couldn't figure what was growing until we stumbled across one of the plants at the hotel. Its the coolest plant. The fruit grows in the strangest way so I have to take a few pictures!
See the fruit at the end of the branches?

Unripe fruit -- still green.

Ripening fruit. Its much pinker than this when fully ripe, but you get the picture!

We've been quiet. (Mui Ne)

I've been quiet because well, for a week our lives were fairly quiet. We were in a mini-paradise. It was lovely, and we enjoyed considerable pool time, good food and lazy days. This was our room.

This was our pool.

This was our deck, pool and view.

The resort.

The main pool at the resort.

See why we were quiet??? :)