Insa-Dong

Insa-Dong is an asian version of Newbury street, at least that's how I associate with it in my mind. It's a street full of vendors with their arts and crafts. Most of the items you see are made by the shop owner. It is very fun to walk around and see all the various crafts while they're being made and also fun to meet the people who design and create the pieces.

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This place looks fun

mmm bark

Erik and I bought these really good smelling incense. They are small cone shaped pieces, they were selling 15 of them for 2 bucks. What a sweet deal! So we each got our own packets. Our apartment will smell amazing for the next month or two.  We also bought these pretty pottery necklaces. You'll see me wearing mine in the near future. Erik obviously got his as a gift for his sister. Aww, how sweet.

A popular shopping street is not complete without...

Starbucks!

...up that says Su-tah-bak-su-ka-pi, or Starbucks Coffee as we commonly know it. No, I did not make that up.

we are standing in front of a pretty painted tile mural

 Later we met up with Julie and Kevin from SF Bay area and Julie's sister, Jill, for dinner. Julie bought a fan from this sweet elderly man.

Fan man and his fans

After we got these shaved ices that are popular in Korea in this very cute tea house. It was literally shaved ice, ice cream,  fruit and bean curd, tomatoes, corn flakes and other little things. It actually was really good.

Cute tea house

Hanging out at the tea house

Really good korean shaved ice

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Julie gets serious about her ice cream :-)

We had an early night since Julie and Kevin arrived that day from San fran. Erik and I went to our hotel and drank Soju. Somehow Erik hadn't tried it until then. I guess I failed at making sure he tried all things Korean. Another great night in Korea!