I didn't have to get up early to make anybody's lunch so I slept until 9. Then, we leisurely had breakfast and walked to the nearest subway station to see Gyeonbak Palace. We witnessed the changing of the guard and then joined a tour given in English. We saw the kings place and the queens house. We learned that she can't leave the palace grounds after becoming queen. Although, once her husband dies and her son becomes king, then she is the kings mother and has more power and can visit away from the palace if she wants.
Then we ate at the museum restaurant. I had the lotus salad wrapped in a lotus leaf. Salad was good, but the huge leaf was not. We also toured part of the museum, which happens to be free for the year 2009. We returned home via subway. I wanted to read, but it seems we weren't home long before we left again, to go to a restaurant so busy that we could only get seated if we were there by 5:30. We ordered pork and ox entrails and raspberry wine. It was all good. We even brought home some of the ox dish because we couldn't eat it all. Spicy!
Finally we returned home, where I finished the book "Life of PI" about a boy stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
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