Sometimes things just catch your eye, like a bunch of garlic for sale, or a dirty old junkyard. It's fun to play with them and see where it will take you. The cable was down yesterday so we couldn't update, but trying to catch up and will do another entry later. We're going for a walk, so who knows what we will find ...
Garlic is in season at the moment, and it is sold in bulk in the local grocery stores. I took a photo because I'd never seen it displayed quite like this before.
It's late so I don't have any torrent of poetic prose today - sorry to disappoint my throngs of regular readers .. We decided to hire a car and drive to Seoul. The train ride (with one connection) takes 4 hours, and Leigh can't ride a bus (2 hour trip) because of motion sickness, so we left early this morning and hit the road. One little problem was that our GPS only spoke Korean which sent us in a few circles. Another little problem was dense fog so needless to say our trip to Seoul ended up taking 4 hours and was stressful. We met up with the Han family, friends we hadn't seen for years, and they took us for a traditional Korean lunch - an education in plant and animal life never before seen by me on a dinner plate. After that we wandered around Itaewon, a trendy area of Seoul frequented by a melting pot of international residents and visitors. Fortunately the Korean GPS guided us home via a more direct route and only took about 2 hours. 
This morning we packed up Gideon and all of his attendant paraphenalia (which took awhile) and caught the 11:48am train to Gumi. It was a 45 minute trip through mostly agricultural countryside; rice fields, apple and persimmon orchards, dairy farms and towns of varying sizes.
Mount Geumosan is a provincial park with hiking trails, temples, a fortress, and great fall color on the mountain.
It was a long day, especially for Gideon and we arrived back in Sangju on the 4:50 train. Here are some pics taken along the way.
It's so funny when you're away and completely out of your routine. I don't even know what day it is most of the time - because it doesn't really matter.
Anyway here are a couple of photos taken today - nothing exciting, just spending family time.
The pace is definitely slower - for me at least. Our days are dictated by Gideon's schedule which is predictable for the most part. He is a very good baby, and only fusses when hungry, windy, or dirty. So we shop at the local grocery stores, go for walks, or stay at home cooking, doing laundry, and for the last 24 hours watching the election news on the web.
We have plans to get out and about a little more over the next few days and will spend a day in Seoul over the weekend - second largest city in the world.
