On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
We were in Korea for 15 days. It was W's 2nd time visiting Korea, and my 1st time visiting the country!
We flew with Air Canada on Nov 28 from Denver (CO) to Vancouver (BC, Canada) then from Vancouver to Incheon Airport. I don't remember how much our airfare was, though I remember it was the 2nd cheapest option. W actually didn't want to fly with Air Canada because he's had bad experience with the airline before...but he agreed to fly with the airline again for better logistics & price (flights with other airlines at the time were either more expensive or had multiple connections with long layovers).
Nov 29
Took A'rex train to get to Seoul Station and then to Myeong-dong
Nov 30
Issac to-go for breakfast
Walked around / window shopped in Myeong-dong
Went to a currency exchange "shop" (or trader? it was a small counter in a basement) to exchange money
Korean BBQ at Wangbijib for lunch
Coats shopping at Uniqlo
Picked up W's parents & brother who just flew in from Taiwan
Seolleongtang for dinner
Watched a performance at The Seoul Cinema - The Painters: Hero
Evening walk along Cheonggyecheon Stream
Samgyetang (Ginseng Chicken Soup) for dinner
Dec 1
I threw up on the tour bus on the way back to the hotel...think I got carsick😣?
Evening walk along Dongdaemun Design Plaza and History & Culture Park
Ventured in Myeong-dong to search for Haemul Sundubu Jjigae for dinner (because W and his brother ordered fried chicken from Nene Chicken while I was taking a nap, delivered straight to the hotel room, and they ate all before I woke up😣)
Dec 2
Guided tour at Changdekgung (one of the five palaces in Seoul)
W's parents & brother went out shopping while W and I Visited Namsan Seoul Tower
Had a buffet lunch at Namsan Seoul Tower
Had fun with coined "karaoke pop-up booths"in Namsan Seoul Tower
Korean BBQ at Wangbijib for dinner (2nd time in a row!)
Dec 3
Breakfast at a coffeeshop nearby the hotel
Visited Ewha Womans University
Lunch near Ewha Womans University
Parted ways with W's parents & brother
Dec 4
Visited an arcade mall
Samgye-tang for lunch
W visited Dongdaemun on his own (he bought some socks) while I rested at the hotel (the prescriptions I was on made me feel very drowsy)
Dinner with friend HJ in Seoul (first time seeing so many banchan dishes at once!)
Dec 5
Visited a market & had breakfast in Dongdaemun
Window-shopped in Itaewon (Seoul's international district, known place to get foreign food fix)
Lunch (poutine) at Canucks in Itaewon
Dinner with friend L in Seoul
Dec 6
Random Japanese sets for lunch
Took a bus to visit Running Man Insandong
Visited Gongpyeong Historic Sites Museum
Dec 7
W & I each got a haircut in Seoul, I also dyed my hair red!
Visited Gravity just because 😉
Dec 8
Visited Jagalchi
Went to a BBQ buffet restaurant in Jagalchi for dinner
💟 Visited BIFF Square (Busan International Film Festival) for night market / street food / local shops
Dec 9
Visited Jagalchi Market
Had seafood buffet at Aria in Jagalchi
Visited Haeundae, had a nice walk from the subway station to Haeundae Beach
Watched sunset at Haeundae Beach
Visited The Bay 101 in Hareundae
Evening walk alongside The Bay 101
Shabu-shabu for dinner near Dongbaek Station
Dec 10
Took on an adventure of searching for a glasses shop / eye clinic so I could buy an eyeglasses case to store my glasses (since I couldn't wear it while still in recovery from the "nose job")
Check-out from Best in City Hotel
Took KTX (high speed train) from Busan -> Seoul
Skewers for dinner at an izakaya, but we were still quite hungry afterwards so stopped by a family restaurant on the way back to the hotel
Dec 11
Saw a stylist for a hair & make-up session at Play Ground in Seoul
Rented hanbok (traditional Korean clothing)
Took a taxi while wearing hanbok to visit Changdeokgung (another Palace in Seoul)
Visited Tongin Market and had lunch there (dosirak, exchange Korean won for old times coins to buy food and fill up the lunchbox)
Tea time at Gong Cha
Shopping at Lotte Outlets and Lotte Mart (Seoul Station)
Spicy cheesy food for dinner in Sinchon
Dec 12
BBQ & skewers for lunch in Jung District
Visited Bank of Korea Money Museum
Walked around and got lost in Jung District
Sampled some desserts and pastries in a random fancy department store
Walked to a Nene Chicken shop and bought fried chicken as to-go (we love their "snowflake chicken") for dinner back at the hotel
Dec 13
Issac to-go for breakfast
Hotel check-out, stored luggage at hotel until we we ready to leave Seoul
Shopping in Ewha Womans University shopping district
Picked up luggage at hotel, then took an airport shuttle at a bus station to get to Incheon Airport
Last minute dinner at the airport (orders got delayed and we got our food just when boarding began and we were not close to the gate, literally ran to the gate while the gate was making final calls for boarding)
Incheon Airport -> Vancouver (BC, Canada) -> Denver (CO) with Air Canada
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