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Friday, March 6th - Seoul, Korea
I visited my first Korean palace today. You can't tell by these pictures, but it was about 15 degrees outside, and the wind was a-blowin'. This combined with the audio tour thing-a-ma-jig not working properly (I couldn't get it to stay in English), resulted in a pretty quick tour of the grounds. This place was huge, but all the buildings started to look the same after a while...
Here's the first gate:
Here's the second:
I won't bore you with the third, it was the same as the first two. But they shore don't make roofs like they used to...
Here's where the king conducted his official business:
I probably wouldn't get any work done, I'd just sit there looking up and thinking how cool my ceiling was.
All around one of the main buildings they had stone representations of the Korean Zodiac, and I started walking around try to figure out what they all were, and where the Ox was (my sign).
This was obviously Rooster, and I figured my sign had to be cooler than this.
But being a dragon would be awesome!
What the...? Oh. Sheep.
"My Precious...". (Monkey)
By process of elimnation, this was Ox. Or a tribute to Where The Wild Things Are. Hard to tell.
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And thus endeth our trip to Seoul. Back to the tropical grind tomorrow....
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