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Krispy Kreme! City Hall

1/19/2013

Sometimes when walking in Seoul you will see something that reminds you so much of home that your feet just take control of your body and force you to go in. That is what happened when Hubby and I were out on our date the other day. After the museum we were in search of lunch when Krispy Kreme started singing our names. It was like a beacon in the night. There was absolutely no reason to fight it so we followed that beacon and it led us straight to this:

It has been a long time since I have had a fresh Krispy Kreme. However as you can see Korean Krispy Kreme stores are a little different than those in the states. There is no place to watch the donuts being made....they don't have fresh donuts coming off the conveyer belt but they do have quite the variety of donuts.

After you place your order you are given a buzzer. We ordered 3 donuts and 2 coffees - it cost about $11 USD and WORTH.EVERY.PENNY.

Tiramisu donut...

Café Hazelnut donut...

But the best donut by far was the plain ol' glazed Krispy Kreme. It was so go we ordered a dozen to take home to the kids for afterschool snack. (And for the cab ride home!)

Do you need a Krispy Kreme fix?
Directions:
Line 2 to City Hall Station exit 4
1st street take a right.
There will be tons of restaurants on your left.
Go to the 1st intersection and Krispy Kreme will be on the left side of the street - across the street.

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Seoul Museum of Art - Tim Burton Exhibit

1/18/2013

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A few weeks ago Hubby and I went to see the musical Miso at the Chongdong Theater in the City Hall area of Seoul. While out on that adventure we stumbled upon the Seoul Museum of Art and then we noticed this:

Tim Burton in Seoul, South Korea?! Yes please! We knew we would go back. So yesterday Hubby had a day off work so we grabbed a cab and headed out (might I add that yesterday, 18 Jan was the 21st anniversary of our first date...can I get a collaborative ahhhhh..... :o)

The Tim Burton exhibit is on the last leg of its tour - the grand finale is here in Seoul! It started in New York, went to Melbourne, Toronto, Los Angeles, Paris and now here - saving the best for last! If you haven't seen it you have until April 14th, 2013 before it is wrapped up and shipped back home. I wonder where Mr. Burton keeps all his goodies when they are not on tour. I would LOVE to see his house.

The entrance to the museum - check out the windows.

Aren't they fun?!

I want some for my windows.
You know, just for fun.

This is the first thing you see when entering the museum.
What movie is he from?

And this is where you give your ticket to enter the world of Tim Burton!
Do you have any idea what the red thing is?

It's his tongue!
I hate to admit this, but Hubby had to point that out to me.
I'm not sure I would have ever figured that out. I would have just thought is was red weirdness.

I wish I could have taken pictures inside the exhibit. Oh my goodness - how cool it was and before today I was never a HUGE Tim Burton fan. He has over 800 pieces on exhibit and 90% of it was from his private collection. I saw his first 'rejection' letter from Walt Disney Studios - they liked his first book although they thought it might be a little too much like Dr. Seuss, although it was good.... He had that first book on display too.

He shared many of his childhood drawings, and TONS of napkin drawings! They had his personal drawings set up in themes, couples, men, women, pirates, numbers, aliens and more. I giggled many times at the words he wrote to go with the drawings and many times I thought of my own Boy 2 and how goofy he is when he puts titles with his works of art. Maybe I should start saving all this silly stuff.....you know, just in case he has a collection of his own someday. One that really made me laugh was a picture of something shooting a poodle - the poodles body was split in half and there were brown pieces all over the paper it said (these are most likely not the exact words) "Never shoot a constipated poodle". Bahahaha! Gross I know.

Hubby and I had a great time even though it was CRAZY busy. I forgot that Friday's are field trip days for Korean schools. There were so many little people all over the place. If you go, you should try to go during the day on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. I've heard you have to wait up to an hour on weekends just to buy your tickets!

OK...How much do you LOVE these couches? Are you flashing back to 1977? We cracked up when we saw them, but then we sat on them.....OH MY GOODNESS, they are SO COMFORTABLE!
I think I want them for our basement, you know, when we get a basement.
These had nothing to do with the Tim Burton exhibit, this was just a lounging area in the museum! I love Korea.

The exhibit runs through Sunday 14 April 2013
They are open from 10:00-20:00 (Tue-Fri) / 10:00–18:00 (Weekends, Public Holidays) / Closed Mondays/ and open 10:00 – 22:00 on the 1st-3rd Tuesdays
The cost is W12,000 Adults / W10,000 Teens / W8,000 Children under 12
To get there by subway: Line 2 to City Hall Station exit 2 - turn right at the corner of the palace and follow the palace wall until it ends - at this point you will come to a 't' intersection - you will see The Seoul Museum of Art on your
left!

BUT....just before you turn left to go into the museum, make sure you check out this sweet little family. They crack me up and freak me out all at the same time.

Here is their story:

Happy 21 Anniversary of our first date Hubby. Here's to many, many more! :o)
(PS...we met on the 17th of Jan 21 years ago - our first day was about 12 hours later.)

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Date Night - Miso - Chongdong Theater at City Hall

12/30/2012

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Welcome to Korea where temps don't get much higher than freezing on any given day from Dec-Feb.
Yesterday it was actually warm, 34 degrees F, but it started snowing early in the day and it didn't stop till sometime in the middle of the night.
If I had not made reservations for the show Miso it is possible that last night could have turned into a 'Dexter' night.
(We just started season 7 of Dexter, and OH MY GOODNESS. I'm so rooting for Dexter. Don't judge me.)
ANYWAY...back to MISO!
Of course had to catch an outside train.
The deck was covered.

We took line 2 to City Hall Station and went out exit 2 (don't listen to other blogs, they renumbered the exits -WHY?!?!), this is what we saw to our left:

And this is what we saw to our right:
The Deoksugung Palace.
(Doesn't it look magical with all the snowflakes?)

To get to the Chongdong Theater you will need to turn right at the corner of the palace and follow the palace wall until it ends - at this point you will come to a 't' intersection - you will see The Seoul Museum of Art on your left - and a street on your right - continue going straight for about another minute you will see the Chongdong Palace on your right:

How it works...you make a reservation on THIS WEBSITE.
You do not get seat assignments until you arrive at the theater and pay for your tickets. The box office opens 1 hour prior to the show. There are 2 shows a day 5 & 8PM, ever day EXCEPT Monday.

Hubby and got to the theater early, paid for our tickets and headed out for a little grub. We stopped at the first place we found a little Korean hole in the wall. (We continued walking straight past the theater and it was the first restaurant on the right.) The food was YUMMY! We got some kind of spicy boiled chicken. (You will see the menu on the next "not quite right" post.) This entire pot was 23,000 won and it was more than we could eat. If we had not been going to a show we would have ask for a to go box.

Make sure you notice how nasty the wall is beside our pot of food....I'm afraid they are going to have a fire in here soon.

After dinner we met up with our great friends to get our Korean culture on at the Chongdong palace!
Miso is a love story set up in the Joseon Dynasty - girl loves boy, another boy loves girl, girl goes to jail and is beaten because she loves the wrong boy - love prevails in the end! The costumes are traditional, colorful and beautiful! The choreography was fantastic, the lighting great, the orchestra was spot on. There was laughter, crying and everything in between! There was Korean traditional dancing & opera style singing! Just fun, fun, fun! Overall I think we all had a great time at Miso and would recommend it to anyone above the age of 12.

After the show it was snowing EVEN MORE! Here we are in front of the ice skating rink at City Hall. We considered skating, but the line was FOREVER long - we decided in the end that we will go during the day and take the kids...

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