Very Very clean place.. Flowers are everywhere and they are experiencing (likely not their word) a great Indian summer. Weather here is a definite 4 seasons including snow and Typhoons..
Every person I have met is friendly and polite,, even when I scared the life out of a few.. I was last in the elevator, and so was standing at the door blocking the sun when the doors opened, there I was , the hulking tower of fear blocking exit and entrance... I hardly even notice people staring up and their jaws going slack saying what ever the Korean work is for BIG...
According to the maps there is a Mall, the COEX mall next to my hotel.. certainly not visible from the street.. so I took an escalator down from the hotel into a 2 story Duty free store, with stuff I would not buy even if they gave it to me... walked a little down a tunnel and.. was able to find the largest gerbil tunnel mall in the world. Clearly more than 200 stores.. with lots of signage and interesting lighting and architectural changes designed to confuse this mouse as he would his way through the maze in search of a meal. Not from Pizza Hut or one of it's fleet of delivery modeps like I saw this morning. but an Asian meal .. embarrassingly I ended up at a TGI Friday's and had a nice mushroom rice with Brocholi and chicken with red pepper sauce dinner.. ( there may have been a local dark stout involved, but alas I can not remember)
In the mall I found the largest book store I have ever seen. I think they have every book ever written in Korean in there, they have books on, 결혼과 신부, and 요트, as well as all the latest 패션과 할리우드들은 잡담. So really quite an experience.. What.. You can not read what I just said.. well.... all you need to do is look up the word in your handy Korean to English phrase translation book.. best of luck ( Bwa ha ha) The record store had a lot of familiar music but I also discovered that Rap in Korean sounds like Rap in English... the good news is I have yet to see a car with 4,000 Megawatt speakers on the streets here that force my heart rate to be in sync with Ensync..(another nice perk of being here)
After a nice rest, The Monks, remember the monks from yesterday.. well this time I was ready.. so at 4:28 my eyes flung open in anticipation. well good thing they did, else I would have missed the drumming that proceeds the gong.. Drumming that is remnicent of a tennis shoe in the dryer.. Something not to be missed.
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