First Snow and a Christmas Display

This week we had our first snowfall of the winter.  Actually the first three snowfalls of winter.  We woke up Wednesday morning to find a dusting of snow, most of which was gone by the end of the day.  Thursday it snowed heavily during our work day but we came to realize that there was much more snow at the places we work in than near our home in Seoul.  The place where Eric works, Hopyeong, Namyangju, especially got a lot of snow on Thursday.  All of the snow and slush from Thursday quickly turned to ice that night as it was very, very cold on Friday.  Then on Saturday we got another dusting of snow at our house and there is still a lot of ice on the sidewalks and back alleys so we have learned to be very careful while walking, and also a little ice skating too.

On Saturday evening we went to the Seoul Hilton hotel to see their large Christmas tree and and village display they have set up in their lobby.  The tree was huge and very beautiful!  It was a real tree, not just strings of lights strung together to look like a tree like we saw at Seoul Plaza last year.  They had a little village with several trains running through it and a display of Santa dolls from around the world.  There was also a Santa you could take a picture with but trust me, he was NOT Santa!  After we saw the display we decided to try a Vietnamese restaurant we had never been to before for some Pho and Gui Cuon.  It was very delicious and we are really beginning to realize how much we will miss all the different Asian foods we have come to love when we leave Korea.  We will definitely be busy exploring new restaurants and Asian food markets when we get back! 

On Sunday one of Eric's coworkers got married very close to our house and after the wedding two of his coworkers came over to our house for dinner and to visit for a while.

Tomorrow it's back to work but Eric only has a week and two days left before he gets a week of vacation and I only have two full weeks (minus Christmas day) before I get to work shorter days teaching English camp for the month of January.