Seoul Day One

Thursday, October 28^th and Wednesday, October 29^th

Yesterday was a traveling day. We spent the afternoon in Narita/Tokyo’s international airport. We had beautiful weather throughout our tour and once it was over the rain came. It rained buckets all day yesterday. We felt so sorry for the ground crews out in the rain all day at the airport. That is a fun airport to just watch all the air traffic – 747’s, 777’s, 767’s – all the big ones along with the big air buses – it is a busy airport!

We arrived in Seoul around 8:30 pm and took the Airport Bus into the city to our hotel. The airport is huge.

We had a leisurely breakfast and then took a taxi to an area where we picked up the “Hop On/Hop-Off” tour. It really gives you a great over view of a city. This city is really something. We got off at the palace and spent a lot of time roaming around there. We caught the bus again and headed back to the start area. We did a ton of walking!

I admit that I did not know much about Seoul, but did you know that it is the 2^nd largest metropolitan area city in the world? I sure didn’t! It is really huge! And….Tokyo is the 1^st!

Right now, the whole attention of the city is geared to the “G20 Summit” when we checked into the hotel they gave us a letter saying that today there would be helicopters landing and taking off from the top of our hotel to practice security response. The summit is the 11th and 12^th of November.

Well, we need to go study our guidebooks for tomorrow.