Staycation in Seoul

Having been inspired by Kevin McCallister from Home Alone 2 and his adventures at The Plaza Hotel in NYC; Elisa and I decided that we wanted to stay in a fancy hotel here in Seoul.  Since we live in one of the world's largest (and most wonderful) cities, why not? Well, after a year of trying to get our schedules to match, we finally were able to do our "stay-cay" in Seoul.

 The original plan was to have a nice, relaxing weekend where we could watch HIMYM, order in and sleep in. Well, that sounded nice but a bit too boring for me, the 13 year old. Plus, Kevin would NOT be proud. So what did we do instead? We decided we would go all out and be super tourists.Yep--full blown tourists.

 To make it more tourist-like,  Elisa and I met up at Sadang station. We planned it right: we met up in the same subway car and dressed the part--fanny packs, cameras, LonelyPlanet books and Korea t-shirts. We were even loud and obnoxious.

We stayed at the ArtNouveau City Hotel in Gangnam--the posh district of the city.

Artnouveau City Hotel

The concierge thought we were crazy

Can you exchange these Dollars for Won please?!

Jumping on the bed

Hmm....what should we do?

Our Hotel

Video call

For dinner, we went out for a very Korean meal, mekju and chicken. Later, Jon, Megan and Jacob joined us and we went out to noraebang. We ended the night with walking around, pretending to be lost, and getting a picture with the Korean Flag.

Chicken and Beer (치킨 + 맥주 = 치맥)

Jacob and Megan singing

Chingus

We <3 Korea!

The next day, we went to the gym, explored the hotel and then went out for brunch at Shall We--a new restaurant with a big "Grand Open" sign (so Korean).

Trying out the treadmill

Working up a sweat

Shall We? Took the pic halfway through the meal... presentation is much better)