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Slumming it in Business Class

Here's us on a Dragon Air flight from Seoul to Beijing in business class on a 777.

posted by Pete @ 5:12 PM 0 comments

Korea

We started the big Asia 2007 trip with a 01:00 AM flight out of Chicago, landing fourteen hours later in Seoul.

Here's Robert in the Chicago 1st Class Passengers lounge around midnight...


Finally there! This is some sort of temple-y facade in front of our hotel




Here's me getting mobbed by Korean school kids who always acted very excited when they saw us, sometimes all saying "Welcome to South Korea" very slowly in unison and then cracking up...


Here's one of the remaining historic gates of the city


Naturally, it is heavily guarded...




Here's the famous Live Octopus Lunch place


One of these poor guys was Robert's lunch....




These pix don't do the scene justice... the octopus tentacles are literally writhing around on the plate, their suckers attaching to everything they encounter!


Here's one clinging to the end of a chopstick


And here's one stuck on my finger!


Next, we followed our nose to the local seafood market






And yes, it was a long day!!!


Here's some temple outside of the DMZ


Here's us in front of the tour bus we took out to the DMZ








More of the DMZ...






Our tax dollars at work....


Next, it was off to some historic Korean palace, where we got to see the Korean equivalent to the changing of the guards
















This was the recycle test: where do you throw your empty bottle???


This is the entire menu at this place we found for lunch...




Lunch here turned out to be one of Sam's favorite meals. Very spicy, very good!!

posted by Pete @ 11:12 AM 0 comments

Great Wall 'o China

This was a fun day. Talk about something you've heard of your whole life but haven't ever seen... Luckily it's only about 45 minutes outside of Beijing, so we took a tour, first of the Ming Temple and then the Great Wall. Despite being blisteringly hot, it was a beautiful day, and it was a thrill to climb up and down the wall for a bit. I think I lost about two pounds of sweat though!!

This first pic is from the van on the drive in

posted by Pete @ 9:22 AM 1 comments