Saturday, February 22, 2014

New Year's at Seoul Tower!

For New Year's Day we decided to go visit Seoul Tower! aka Namsan Tower for the mountain it's near.   But it turned out everybody else thought it'd be a good day to go visit too.  Austin was such a sweetheart though, never complained about waiting in all of the lines.  And there were some crazy lines!  It was a pretty great day checking out the famous tower.  Here is a visual tour of our trip ;)




We used a few modes of transportation that day.  We drove to the train station.  Rode the train for an hour and half, walked a ways, then rode a cable car up to the actual tower.

treacherous ice hill

Our first line of the day.  Waiting to buy tickets for the cable car!  
"Thank you for using the Namsan cable car.  Have a nice day today"

About 4 hours total into the journey...
I really captured our emotions.

Waiting in line to board
The line zig zagged all over the 3 story building

Our view from the cable car!

 


Almost there!


Part of my convincing Austin to go was that I'd pack us a lunch.  So we thought these benches away from the crowd would be nice to eat at.  They just happened to be near an exercise area (which you'll find randomly all over Korea)  

Ol boy decided to get some quality gym time

SEOUL TOWER!

Before we headed up to the actual tower part, there was still the gift shop to check out

Couple's Blood type key chains
Naked babies dressed as various animals...normal



Next up we had to check out the love locks!





Time to add ours!
Adding a secret message on the actual lock


Can you spy ours?!



For some reason, it took me until we got to the counter to realize the topping choices wouldn't be the ones we're used to... can't go wrong with brownie though!




Such a great view!!


Pointing to my homeland 
Close enough to Florida




Walking around you'll always find some sort of neat "signs"

copy posing
There were a good few signs and they were all random.  On second look though maybe they were representing movies...?  I recognized super woman and the title of this one with two cats kissing..

"The Great Catsby"




 Oh and just in case y'all didn't know... you can look forward to seeing the Seoul Tower in the upcoming Avengers movie! ;)





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