zachary turned 30. pecan pie, mocha cake and dr. pepper floats. that's how we roll. zachary got the only root beer float, thanks to our friends: agatha who, a few days back, got us all a can of root beer from itaewon (korea's mini america) and jade & joseph for saving their can and giving it up to the birthday man. 

visitors! we spent the morning and early afternoon with kun-wesamchun (my mom's oldest brother) and kun-wesuma who were visiting from chicago. saechung unni took us to lunch at a restaurant with 5 or 6 or 7 courses. i stopped counting after round 3. 

we're lucky to have family here and family visiting. especially to help celebrate occasions like birthdays. seeing wesuma and wesamchun meant a lot to us.

dj fest. (pics were stolen from agatha who stole them from tomasz).

waiting for our train to take us home after walking around the crazy namdaemun market and hanging out at unni's place.

ridiculous.

outside every seafood restaurant.

lots of photos from our roadtrip.

snippets will be posted here and there.

feeling a little lazy with the uploading process...

resting under some good lookin' trees before heading back to seoul.

i asked the man in blue if he could take our photo under the tree. 

we had a weird exchange:

man (in an excited voice): you kazakhstan?

me: no?

man (still excited): uzbekistan?

me: no?

he then took our photo, went back to his store, back to hanging out with his friends who were sitting in a little room getting drunk in the early afternoon. as i was walking to the car to grab the roadmap, the gang of men stopped me and asked, "you korean? no!?" they then sat me down and poured me a drink. we all ended up hanging out with them as they fed us hard-boiled eggs, korean pancakes and popsicles. this is how we ended our trip....hanging out with some koreans who laughed a lot and just wanted to feed a bunch of foreigners, even if we weren't from kazakhstan.

old arcade games we wished we could play.

last stop: gwanchoksa.

hanging out with more lanterns and korea's largest stone buddha.

and some more...

the view from the top.

korea's smokey the bear. and son.

the falling rock warning (3rd illustration) is the cutest, but least helpful.