Day 12

• Today Chin and I walked along Olympic park. It is nice even in the fall. The trees are changing colors, and the carp are still swimming (the river should freeze by December) and there are public exercise machines to use. These machines are amazing! They use your own body weight as the resistance!
• After our walk in the park we stopped by a street vender who was selling the Korean version of a churro for 50 cents a piece. They are round and have cinnamon, brown sugar, and toasted sesame seeds inside of it. Mmmmmmm!
• For lunch I had a sweet potato and cheese pretzel. Wetzel’s Pretzels needs to get on that because it is soooo good! It’s almost like a calzone. Melissa, when you come here make sure to get one because you’re gonna love it!
• Once done with lunch we took the subway to the shopping hub known as Dongdaemun market (Melissa this is the one you took me too). It’s nice because I can use the same bus pass I got the other night for the subway, and it also works to pay taxis too. So convenient! Anyways, Chin got a new purse and after selling it to her the vendor proceeded to remove its original metal tag and attach a Prada one! So now it looks like an authentic Prada handbag! I was shocked! Also at the market, they sell nylon stockings that look like jeans. Which brings new meaning to the phrase “those jeans look like they are painted on.” They look so much like “skinny jeans” it’s hard to tell if they are real or not!
• Outside of the Dongdaemun market they sell something that can only be described as a Korean corn dog. It is the strangest looking food I have ever seen. It looks like a big wad of French fries served on a stick. Apparently nestled within the mass of fries is a hotdog. I don’t know how they make it, or how it tastes, but I do know it is very popular.