Feeling more like home..

Yes, it's true. This is finally starting to feel like home to us.

After going through over two months of adaption, Seoul is beginning to feel like our home. The security guard at the front no longer gives us dirty looks, but now greets us with a smile everyday! The cashier at the local convenience store recognizes us, and is now always patient when we don't know how much money to give him. Does it get any better than this haha.

Although we are still shy to go out to authentic Korean restaurants, we think that soon we will be brave enough to get it a shot. If all else fails, we'll just point at the menu until they bring us something (even though we may not like it).

Today we visited the DMZ (de-militarized zone). This is the area between North and South Korea which is set up to keep the two countries separated. It was very interesting to see this. The area was heavily guarded with troops, high barb-wire fences, and look out points. The most interesting portion of the trip was when we had the chance to venture through a tunnel which had been dug by North Korea. The tunnel stretched from North Korea, through to South Korea. It had been set up for the North to spring a surprise attack on the South. This was only one of 4 tunnels which are discovered. They believe that there are many other tunnels still undiscovered to this day. It's kinda scary, especially when they told us that the tunnels could transport 30 000 troops per hour to infiltrate into Seoul. We also had the chance to look into North Korea from an observatory. However, the troops there were very insistant that we did not take any photos. Anyone caught taking pictures was immediately stopped, and the soldiers forced them to delete the photos taken.

Last weekend we went for a big hike at Namsang park. It was only a short subway ride for us, but the hike was certainly not short. We both felt a little out of shape by the end of the haul, as we were sweating and tired. However it was worthwhile to make it to the top, as we got to look out over all of Seoul. The view was incredible, and we could see how big the city truly is. There is also a special area at the top of the hill, where a large chain link fence stands. On this fence were thousands and thousands of locks which people had attached. The idea is that couples will go here, lock two matching locks onto the fence, then throw the keys over the fence, forever leaving their locks intact to show their love for each other. Cute cute, we know.

We haven't done much else new lately, we've found a few spots we like to visit, so we spend our time at these places. Can't go out adventuring every weekend!