Upon stepping out of the hotel, the cold air just blasted into our faces. We hurriedly went to an Angels-in-Us-Coffee near our hotel for cafe mochas. After we bought our coffee, I spotted something opposite the road and squealed in excitement.
PARIS BAGUETTE!!!!
I bought a salad and the hubs bought a sandwich.
Honestly Paris Baguette ain't cheap in Seoul either, contrary to whatever else others said. And the food wasn't very fantastic either. Maybe they are famous for their cakes? Just so happened that the branch we went to had no cakes. :(
After breakfast, our next stop, Trickeye Museum!
Trickeye Museum is relatively easy to find. What a lot of people failed to mention is that it is actually underground, like at Basement 2? Basement 1 is some Love Museum. Anyway as it was a Sunday and also near year end, it was really really crowded but not unpleasantly so. It just meant some waiting time for photo taking in the particular scene that you want.
I was worried the hubs would think it's a silly place as sometimes he likes to portray the "I am macho" image. Surprisingly he had as much fun as I did and we had a good laugh over the photos after. I would highly recommend Trickeye Museum to all tourists to Seoul. After all, it is fun, doesn't take up too much of your time and entrance costs only 7,500won, if I didn't recall wrongly. Also, there are lots of things to look at and eat around the area!
Do print out their map or get your directions clear before setting off from your hotel though!
We actually walked around the area a bit before heading to Namsan Tower. In the morning, we asked our hotel's reception to help us book a dinner appointment. The first dinner seating is only available at 5.30pm and will end at around 7pm.
Around 4pm, we were tired from walking around so we decided to go to Namsan Tower earlier to look around before dinner. We took a cab there and we were SO fortunate to have decided to go earlier, because Namsan Tower cannot be reached by cab (or it probably can but no one would go up!), you have to take a cable car up and the queue for that cable car was sooo long.
When we reached the tower, it snowed! Both of us were so happy! Especially the hubs who was in such awe, like a little boy seeing Transformers for the first time or something to that effect haha. For the first time in our lives, we both knew what it was like to feel snowflakes falling onto our cheeks and to see snowflakes for the first time in our lives. It was such a wonderful experience.
Anyway since it was 5.30pm when we got there, we took a few photos outside and immediately went to the restaurant. The restaurant is situated higher than the observatory. When we reached there, the waiter asked us whether we wanted to pay more for the window seat and since we probably wouldn't be going back, we said ok. The window seat costs about SGD$100 more and comes with complimentary sparkling wine and a chiffon cake.
Window seat with a semi-circle couch that gives couples privacy between tables.
The view from the top
The table set up is so simple and cozy~!
Here comes the food! Some smoked salmon thing
Another appetizer that had zucchini, brinjal and cheese. This was surprisingly good, considering I don't eat brinjal. I tried this anyway and it was nice!
Some fish thing...lol sorry I know I suck at details but anyway the food is not bad lah!
I know what this is! This is the hubs' octopus thing. We didn't like the vegetables that was on it...had a pungent smell
This one I know! Mushroom cappucino!
Finally our main course arrived! We could either choose a main course each or share a main course set for two. As we are both steak lovers, we decided to go for the steak set. The set comes with creamed spinach, potato gratin and some condiments. The steak that came were the Striploin, tenderloin and something else which I forgot. :D
The couple seat came with complimentary sparkling wine (one bottle) and a pretty chiffon cake!
Dessert was pretty ordinary, nothing to rave about. This was meringue something hahaha
The sky turns dark really quick in winter, so the 5.30pm seating is really good coz it allows you to see Seoul in both day night mode. :)
I purchased this lock for about SGD$10 at N Seoul Tower souvenir shop. Well, I suppose you can bring your own lock as it'd probably be cheaper? :)
The lock came with a free marker pen (with N Seoul Tower on it no less), for you to inscribe your names and date and love on the lock forever~~~
I suppose a trip to N Seoul Tower would be incomplete without a trip to the wall of locks. Here, couples often "lock" their love here. So that's what we did! Although removing our gloves to lock it on the fence was tough as we were freezing and so were our fingers! Declaration of love at the risk of frostbite. -_-"
After N Seoul Tower, it was time for some serious action!
The hubs is a huge fan of gun shooting, so when I first found out that there's a shooting club in Myeongdong, I had to bring him there. It is really not cheap, 10 bullets for 40,000won and 25 bullets for 80,000won (buy 20 get 5 bullets free). 80,000 won was about SGD$100 but since this is not something we can do in Singapore, I thought should just make the hubs happy and let him play. There were lots of tourists (we met a Taiwanese couple and some Japanese tourists too).
So this is the hubs shooting, with the instructor by his side. There are a few different ranges to shoot I think there is 25m and 50m. Also, different kinds of targets. My favourite was the one with the bad guy and the hostage (pretty girl) haha so the shooter has to be careful not to shoot the hostage.
Anyway the hubs really had fun and he brought back the targets as souvenirs. :)
We returned to the hotel early as we had to wake up at 6+am the next morning for our skiing trip!
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