A quick recap on my life for the past couple months!!!

Since Christmas a lot has happened and changed and life has been very busy, in a good way.  We spent the entire months of January and February doing things before a few of our friends left for the wonderful life of being world travelers.  Among some of our goodbye festivities was a dinner in the dark, which was exactly what it sounds like.  We literally ate dinner in a pitched black restaurant with one other Korean couple, listening to the sound of the ocean, it was the theme that night, and sticking our fingers in our food course after course.  At the end of  dinner the hostess read a "love letter" I wrote to our friends that were leaving.  In her really bad broken English she butchered my loving words and left Dan confused and convinced the couple next to us were having a special moment. I also planned a bar crawl through Itaewon, which is where we frequent most weekends and consists of all expats, way too military creepers and the Korean locals looking to brush up on their English.  The bar crawl was a great success, leaving us all miserably hungover, but with wonderful and complete memories of the entire evening.  We all really I impressed ourselves to say the least.  We also took a second trip to DMZ, per Azzurra's request as she is completely obsessed with NK.  Our trip pretty much consisted of me making two cocktails Friday evening and blacking everyone out the night before our tour, needless to say North Korea is way more interesting when you don't feel like death while visiting it.  

Azzurra ready and willing to sleep with the Vampire dear in North Korea!

A group of us also had a very belated Thanksgiving dinner, compliments of the Army base in Seoul and finally got to cure our craving from turkey and stuffing.  We each brought a few bottles of wine totaling in around 15 and we were 100% positive we'd have plenty left over.  Well many servings of turkey later and a few pieces of pie all the wine was gone and our Monday morning was one of the worst of all time.  Next time we will have our turkey day celebration on a Saturday, so that we will have at least one day to recuperate. 

This one didn't exactly make it to work the next day...you can see why!

We also went a snowboarding trip to YongPyong, where the 2018 Olympics will be.  The mountain was decent, but the resort was as American as I believe is possible to find in Korea.  They really like to night ski because the mountains are so insanely crowded, but luckily in March it wasn't too bad.  I impressed myself with how well I did for not having boarded in a year or so.  I'm definitely looking forward to getting on the slopes a lot more next season, especially at $60 bucks for a left ticket and rentals!  Korea pretty much can't do anything right, but how cheap things are here is really nice, especially coming from a place where ur  constantly overpaying for everything, such as an $8 bagel and coffee!  

YongPyong.  It's not exactly the Rockies, but I've learned to not be so picky here!!!

We also finally went to Namsan Tower (Seoul Tower) and locked our love!  It's a tradition to lock your love, literally, at the bottom of the tower.  Not exactly sure why or what it means, but we did it regardless.  The sights from the top weren't nearly as cool as the tower itself, but it's definitely a must do when in Seoul.  

Namsan Tower

Pretty much the basis of this post is that we've been doing an excessive amount of partying, some things never change haha!!!  There are a lot of fun plans and trips that await us and I'm extremely anxious for the spring weather that's hit all of America to finally make its way to Korea, it's starting to finally happen thank god!  We are planning a trip to Busan at the end of May, which is a beach city all the way down south, as well as a trip to Singapore this fall, which is going to be amazing!  The other extremely exciting thing that has been going I is that I'm an aunt to two beautiful baby girls!  While its been pretty tough being far away during both my sister's pregnancy and missing the birth of both Olivia and Emma, I'll be home this July to meet the newest members of the fam!  I'm looking forward to a trip home this summer, I'll have confirmed dates next week, so keep your eyes out!!!!

Until next time!!!

xoxo
Ashley