N Seoul Tower, Lantern Festival and Heated floors!

Seoul Tower

One night after work, we went to N. Seoul Tower. Seoul Tower is an observation and communications tower located in the center of the city. It offers great views of the city because it is situated on Mt. Namsam. You can either hike to get there or take a cable car. Which one do you think we did? :)

 At the top, they have various cities of the world and how far away each one is....:)

 I am far away!

Lantern Festival

All of these lanterns lined a large portion of the Cheonggyecheon Stream, which is a 5.8 kilometer stream in downtown Seoul.

Ondol:온돌

So it's been getting cold here...really cold. Okay it hasn't been terribly cold for your average person but for me, anything below 70F is cold. You know how I feel about winter! So of course, I wanted to turn the heat on. After getting help from another teacher and googling it, I didn't figure it out. Stash did. Haha. 

Heating here is really neat. Ondol is underfloor heating and it uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to the underside of a  floor. Translation: my feet are nice and toasty when I walk around my apartment. 

My thermostat:)

More adventures to come later!