Visiting Seoul marked the final chapter of my quest for Alexandra to meet the rest of family who she'd never met prior to our trip, my uncles from my dad's side and their wives and kids living in Taiwan and Seoul. Not having seen my family there for over twenty years myself, it was quite special for me too. I didn't want to arrive empty-handed, so I thought of framing a wedding photo of my grandparents that I knew only my dad owned (first picture after the picstitch). It was a pretty cool moment when I presented the photo to each uncle.
We had a great time hanging out with family (coincidentally, our cousins Jack and Jenn were also in Seoul during the same time we were there), spending an afternoon with Alexandra's former co-worker TaeSun, touring my parents' high school with one of my mom's best childhood friends who's now a teacher there, and of course, sampling some great Korean food, including "brown chicken," pork bone and beef bone soups, spicy rice and fish cakes, all sorts of different banchan, and delicious ice cream with matcha powder and honeycomb. Koreans know how to eat!
