You are looking out our window now at Seoul: Think big city. Think market neighbornood. Think open air stalls selling anything imaginable. You are surrounded by many vegetable and fish items that you may not be able to identify, but which will stimulate your visual and olfactory senses.
Seoul is one of the largest cities in the world. Yesterday we went to the Olympic Park where the 1988 Summer Olympics were held. It was filled with families blading, pedaling, walking. The park area has been well maintained and appears to be utilized for recreation, though we wondered as we walked around how they recoup costs for maintaining the large venue structures built for gymnastics, swimming, etc.
Make sure that your clothes dry out from Sunday's rain here in Seoul before you pack for the flight tomorrow evening. The meterologists unfortunately got the weather forecast wrong. What was to be a sunny day is filled with heavy downpours. Our outdoor walks through Kim's university area of Sinchon will be modified and we will visit some museums instead.
Tomorrow evening you'll be getting on a plane for Chiang Mai, which is in northern Thailand, on a narrowing piece of land bordering Mynamar and Laos. We'll send you pictures of your arrival there.
