This followed the general "non-plan" that Austin and I set up after a bit of a stressful first day getting acquainted with Seoul. See... the day before when we went to take photos of the palace, the doors were closed and we lost each other for 2 hours. While I wandered around aimlessly, he had all of my important things in his backpack for safekeeping, including all money, but excluding my phone thankfully. Internet messaging became a thing when he assumed I was basic enough to panic find a Starbucks and camp there until rescued. This caused a bit of annoying tension from wasting time over something as silly as a basic miscommunication and we became better for the rest of the trip.
To start the non-plan day we decided to rent Hanboks (traditional Korean dress), which gave us free entrance to the palace and had the best couple hours taking pictures everywhere we could, being completely ridiculous. This seemed to be the theme of every tourist in there though and many people came up asking to take a photo with us, including groups of Korean high school students who were just the sweetest. I wanted to go do cartwheels on the METRO as well, but thought that would be a little too much.
My absolutely favorite moment was this sweet little girl who slowly inched closer and closer until she was close enough for a picture and quietly said "you look like a princess, can we take a photo?" MADE MY DAY = Disney moment come true!!!
All photo credit goes to Austin for taking amazing photos, telling me to do things that ended up looking beautiful and editing like a magician!! Poor guy let me use his camera for 5 minutes and I couldn't focus it, but did end up with one usable picture and some general lessons for a non-basic auto focus camera.
