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“We live in this cool city.  We need to go out tonight,” I told Adam when I got home from work.  Of course this makes me sound interesting, so I must be honest that most of the time, I’m the homebody face-planted on the bed after work.  But tonight, I wanted to experience our city.

We rounded up La Tisha, took the bus 10 minutes to Jongno, the main drag in Seoul and had dinner at a second story cozy pub.  We laughed at the English translations on the menu.  After a relaxed dinner of bibimbap, bulgoki, jasmine tea and dong dong ju, we mosied back out to the street to the tune of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer.”

LT was craving some Cold Stone ice cream, so we walked down a bustling alleyway to the shop, but alas it was closing.  The alley led us to the Chunngyecheon Stream that I love– part urban art installation, part natural reservoir.  We walked along the stream back to the bus stop where we waited and chatted up a friendly, drunk man.

Our bus didn’t come, so we hailed a cab and found our way home, singing along to the deafeningly loud “Bridge Over Troubled Water” karaoke version that the driver turned up for his foreign riders’ enjoyment.

Nothing special, but I enjoyed feeling at home in our big city.

Good night.

-Jessica