Dear Mookie, Aug 17 and 18- A Whole Lotta Seoul
Our dearest mookie,
Yesterday was our big adventure in Seoul with Grandma, Aunt Jung Eun, and your cousin Heeyeon. First stop, getting lost on the way to visit the first Sticky Fingers Bakery in Korea. Once we got there, it was awesome. Sticky Fingers here is slightly different than the DC one, in that there are no cowvins or little devils. There are still a few decadent cake options, cookies, and sticky buns, but the bakery seems to be catered to a more health conscious set. Low to No Sugar. Less Sticky. More Bun. And breads and muffins. Green Tea Biscuits. But still very tasty and moist. Apparently we're not the only ones who think so because not only have THREE of them opened up in Seoul alone in the past year, a fourth bakery is slated for Gangnamgu. We love the SF "No Milk. No Eggs. No Butter." Banner. Not a whole lotta chocolate, so it's mookie friendly too. They have a fridge of soy delicious too, who have conqured the health food store veg restaurant scene here.
Next Stop on our Veg tour of Seoul is the second seoul veggie restaurant we explored: Country Life. Yummy Korean Vegan Buffet. (and yes, we stopped for dessert before lunch)
Then off to the National Museum, until they kicked us out. We rested on the front steps while Heeyeon ran around the courtyard. She's like your daddy, loves running, hates walking. She's also really good to have around when you are learning korean because she likes to repeat and chant phrases like. An a jueo An a Jueo (Hug Me Hug Me) and Ssanda Ssanda (I'm gonna pee my pants, i'm gonna pee my pants). Useful stuff they don't teach you in phrasebooks.
As we mentioned before, this trip is largely about food and dinner was our third veg dining experience in Seoul at So Chim. Good Times.
By this time it was dark and perfect time to explore the Cheonggye Cheon stream restoration. It was amazing. This was an old stream that ran through the city. Women would do laundry in it and kids would play in it. They built little foot bridges and walkways over the stream and it was a place where wan's dad used to bathe when he was a little boy. As urbanization set in and more people migrated and set up homes by the stream and contaminate it, the government thought it best to cover it with concrete and build a road over it, so this lifeline and symbol of culture in the city was buried. But in the last few years, a big restoration happened, where they dug it up restored parts of the stream and turned it into an big eco urban park. Night time you find so many couples strolling, kids hanging out dipping their feet in the water, skipping on hopscotch stones across the stream, or walking across the restored foot bridges and arches. Not too deep, so you could just run across it mookie without having to worry about that swimming issue. PLUS it was sooooo clean. Could never imagine something so clean in NYC. The stream both compliments and contrasts the surrounding ultra modern streets. Imagine Broadway in Times SQ restored to an urban water park. Okay, so you've never been there.. how about Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn?
We continued our Seoul adventure today with Jung Eun and Heeyeon and returned to Insadong where we met friends of Min, Chris and Irene. Irene went to elementary school and college with Min in Korea and is now working on feminist issues in Korea on sex workers in particular. Her husband Chris, is an anti-war activist and aslo doing his PhD on return migration and interviewed your daddy and Jung Eun about this subject. So we had a nice chat about identity politics. I'm sure you would have had a lot to contribute on the subject being a pit bull combined with your other features like your frog butt, mouse tail, and cow facade, plus that whole experience of being a vegetarian dog in a carnivorous canine world. Chris asked daddy whether he would come back to Korea, and Wan said only if it would be good place for Mookie to live.
We're back home now. Grandpa came home from the week at the farm hooking up the electric, water and gas lines. We ate a lovely dinner at home and are gonna relax for a little bit. It's been a fun week, but we are tired and would love to snuggle and nap with you right about now. In the mean time, enjoy snuggling with chris and jules. We miss your big deep breaths and sighs.
Love you
Uma and Upa
Much Love
Yesterday was our big adventure in Seoul with Grandma, Aunt Jung Eun, and your cousin Heeyeon. First stop, getting lost on the way to visit the first Sticky Fingers Bakery in Korea. Once we got there, it was awesome. Sticky Fingers here is slightly different than the DC one, in that there are no cowvins or little devils. There are still a few decadent cake options, cookies, and sticky buns, but the bakery seems to be catered to a more health conscious set. Low to No Sugar. Less Sticky. More Bun. And breads and muffins. Green Tea Biscuits. But still very tasty and moist. Apparently we're not the only ones who think so because not only have THREE of them opened up in Seoul alone in the past year, a fourth bakery is slated for Gangnamgu. We love the SF "No Milk. No Eggs. No Butter." Banner. Not a whole lotta chocolate, so it's mookie friendly too. They have a fridge of soy delicious too, who have conqured the health food store veg restaurant scene here.
Next Stop on our Veg tour of Seoul is the second seoul veggie restaurant we explored: Country Life. Yummy Korean Vegan Buffet. (and yes, we stopped for dessert before lunch)
Then off to the National Museum, until they kicked us out. We rested on the front steps while Heeyeon ran around the courtyard. She's like your daddy, loves running, hates walking. She's also really good to have around when you are learning korean because she likes to repeat and chant phrases like. An a jueo An a Jueo (Hug Me Hug Me) and Ssanda Ssanda (I'm gonna pee my pants, i'm gonna pee my pants). Useful stuff they don't teach you in phrasebooks.
As we mentioned before, this trip is largely about food and dinner was our third veg dining experience in Seoul at So Chim. Good Times.
By this time it was dark and perfect time to explore the Cheonggye Cheon stream restoration. It was amazing. This was an old stream that ran through the city. Women would do laundry in it and kids would play in it. They built little foot bridges and walkways over the stream and it was a place where wan's dad used to bathe when he was a little boy. As urbanization set in and more people migrated and set up homes by the stream and contaminate it, the government thought it best to cover it with concrete and build a road over it, so this lifeline and symbol of culture in the city was buried. But in the last few years, a big restoration happened, where they dug it up restored parts of the stream and turned it into an big eco urban park. Night time you find so many couples strolling, kids hanging out dipping their feet in the water, skipping on hopscotch stones across the stream, or walking across the restored foot bridges and arches. Not too deep, so you could just run across it mookie without having to worry about that swimming issue. PLUS it was sooooo clean. Could never imagine something so clean in NYC. The stream both compliments and contrasts the surrounding ultra modern streets. Imagine Broadway in Times SQ restored to an urban water park. Okay, so you've never been there.. how about Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn?
We continued our Seoul adventure today with Jung Eun and Heeyeon and returned to Insadong where we met friends of Min, Chris and Irene. Irene went to elementary school and college with Min in Korea and is now working on feminist issues in Korea on sex workers in particular. Her husband Chris, is an anti-war activist and aslo doing his PhD on return migration and interviewed your daddy and Jung Eun about this subject. So we had a nice chat about identity politics. I'm sure you would have had a lot to contribute on the subject being a pit bull combined with your other features like your frog butt, mouse tail, and cow facade, plus that whole experience of being a vegetarian dog in a carnivorous canine world. Chris asked daddy whether he would come back to Korea, and Wan said only if it would be good place for Mookie to live.
We're back home now. Grandpa came home from the week at the farm hooking up the electric, water and gas lines. We ate a lovely dinner at home and are gonna relax for a little bit. It's been a fun week, but we are tired and would love to snuggle and nap with you right about now. In the mean time, enjoy snuggling with chris and jules. We miss your big deep breaths and sighs.
Love you
Uma and Upa
Much Love
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