Captain's Log, Day 153

Scarily enough, I have been in Korea for FIVE whole months as of yesterday!

Another weekend, another trip to Seoul. I have decided that I love Seoul. I am perfectly happy living in Daejeon but it is so cool to be able to hop on a train and head up to Seoul. The purpose of today's trip was to pick up my ticket for my trip home at xmas...hahahahah...oops...I mean for my trip to THAILAND (don't worry you only have to put up with comments like that for at least another two months). My friends Marta and Mark were also planning on heading to Seoul for the day and Lauren decided to join us as well.

We split up upon arriving in Seoul with Mark and Marta having their own odds and ends to take care of and Lauren and I in need of a little retail therapy. We jumped on the subway and headed to COEX Mall, the biggest mall in Korea. It was fantastic. I bought a few shirts, a Lonely Planet Guide for Thailand, and various products at my favourite store, Skin Food. Skin Food is the best body product store ever (and coming from me, that is high, high praise), they have all sorts of funky products (mushroom deep cleanse, tomato face packs, cappucino face scrub, celery face wipes, etc) and it is so reasonably priced. Which for me, really only means that it easier to justify why I can't walk by a store without getting something. The best part of the store though, and what enourages me to keep buying is the free samples you get with each purchase. Today I bought tea tree face scrub and a new foundation (to replace the one I shattered all over my floor a few weeks back) and I got at least ten different free sample packets (peach serum, black honey foam, beer shampoo, anti wrinkle cream, face whitening toner...maybe I shouldn't use that, all sorts of great stuff). Okay I will stop because I know that this stopped being interesting after the line, Skin Food is the best body product store ever...

So anyways, we shopped and shopped and shopped until it was after six and we were to meet up with Mark and Marta for dinner in Itaewon at a popular spot called Geckos, which is highly populated with foreigners and army guys. The food was great, I had a steak sandwich and salad with a Belini martini, delicious. By this time it was 8 or so and we decided to make our way back to the train station and to Daejeon as we were pretty wiped from the day.

The only problem with today was the fact that I got all caught up in our shopping and eating and what not that I didn't actually make it to the travel agent to pick up my ticket...oops...guess I will just have to make another trip out there soon!