3 Years - Our Anniversary Trip to Seoul Tower

January 5th 2008 I married the love of my life, Brad. Three years later, we find ourselves in another country, with 1 more kid, a pet, and on a fun adventure. We have never been an a trip for anniversary before. We have pretty much always been travelling home from visiting family since our anniversary is right after the holiday season. This year we decided that we were definitely going on a trip together. We dropped Riley off at school, Elijah off at daycare and headed to the subway. When we finally got off at the stop that is closest to the Seoul Tower, I started taking pictures.

We had to take a cable car at one point... or I guess we could have walked up the stairs that go up the mountain... but it was 15 degrees outside and well... I'm not much for walking all the way up the side of a mountain =) Here are the views on the way up:

We did have to walk a little ways after we got off the cable car, but I got some really great pics of the scenery:

We bought a lock to attach on the fence at the base of the tower. It something that pretty much everyone does when they visit here, so we found our spot and put our little piece of metal on the huge canvas of locks:

Our Lock!

Another part of the fencing that was COVERED in locks

We travelled up into the tower and visited some of the other places that were around like souvenir shops and a little restaurant.

Our Chicken Salad that we had with our meal - YUMMY!

It was a great day to spend together. When we left we got lost in underground Seoul, yikes! That's not something I'm up for again, but we made our way to the Army post in Seoul and shopped at their PX then headed home on one of the buses. What an exhausting but awesome day!

Date Night 8/20/10

Tonight was date night!!! We started out the day at the BX buying clippers for me to cut Elijah's hair and we decided that we might as well head over to the beauty salon and get my hair cut since we had been discussing it for a few days. I got it cut, shampooed, deep conditioned, blow dried and straightened for only $32. Not bad for all of that I think. Here's a few pics of my new hairdo:

After I got my hairdo we took the kids over to the CDC (Child Development Center) and dropped them off in their classrooms then headed over to the Enlisted Club for membership night. They had free steaks, baked potatoes, rice, rolls, salad, corn on the cob and drinks. It was really yummy. We left there and headed to the community center to play a few games of pool... just the two of us and we had a blast!!!!I taught Brad how to play 9 Ball and then we ended with a few games of 8 Ball. I think the end results were a tie we each won a game of each. It was really warm out and REALLY humid but we decided to go into Songton and shop for a little while. I got some great stuff!!! First was a shop that sells Jade carved into shapes. I got a set of owl book ends and a really cute bracelet all for 60,000 Won... that's close to $50. Here are some pics once I got them home:

When we finished at the little shop we walked a little further down the road and saw a flower place and I just had to have some! Here they are:

We also made it to our favorite bakery, Brioche and picked up a few favorites of ours. We got a bread that has chocolate in it and some cookies for the kiddos:

After our excursion off base we headed back and decided that we needed desser from Chili's... Soooo off we went... and had Molten Chocolate Cake:

 

Then we walked around and talked to a few people we knew, headed over to pick up our kiddos and headed home! What a GREAT date night!!!!!!