I just got back from Knoxville, Tennessee where my daughter’s Destination Imagination team was competing at the Global Finals. I had meant to finish up my Korea posts while I was there, but limited bandwidth in the dorms we were staying in, a packed schedule, and sheer exhaustion delayed things a bit…Without further ado, here is my penultimate Korea post:
The Scoop on Poop
I didn’t know it was possible to be spoiled by a toilet. It is:
After ten days of sitting on a heated seat in the Westin Chosun, regular toilets seem so cold and primitive!
Sometimes the toilets were so high tech, I couldn’t even figure out how they flushed:
The toilets weren’t always so fancy:
I’m not the only one who couldn’t figure out how the toilets worked…Because of the existence of squatter toilets such as these, you sometimes see signs like this:
On our last day in Seoul, my sister and I walked to the National Folk Museum, which also has a Children’s Museum. This was the featured exhibit:
Food, glorious food
The Spam aisle in the Lotte Department Store Grocery:
The 12th and 13th floors have nothing but restaurants:
I was fascinated by the snacks…Mmmmmm, squid gristle!
Shopping
The 9th floor of Lotte is Duty Free cosmetics. The place was full of people with gigantic suitcases, prepared to drop some serious change on face creams!
Exit through Star Avenue:
These pretty, pretty boys made me feel like a big ugly lumberjack every time I walked past:
Shinsegae Department Store is the grande dame of department stores:
We caught a sweet, temporary installation called Journey in a Dream on the top floor. The Australian installation artist Pip & Pop created depictions of paradise made of colored sugar and figurines she had collected in Korea:
Tomorrow: Last Day in Seoul
o wonderful, wonderful 