Chuseok- Korean Thanksgiving

This weekend is Chuseok, thanksgiving for Koreans. It's great because we get American and Korean holidays off, so it was a 4 day weekend for Matt. They always get the day after the holiday off and since it's technically on Sunday, they get Monday off. He also got Friday off because everyone at the conference had an opportunity to go tour the DMZ. kids under 10 can't go, so we didn't go. We've heard traffic is ridiculous though and that we shouldn't plan to travel south at all. 

Anyway, yesterday there was a Korean ensemble who performed Korean traditional instruments at the library, so we went to that. 

Harper wants to learn to play the instrument listed above. It is like a harp and has a very rich sound. I would love for her to learn something like that. 

After the performance, we went to this park that Matt had been wanting to visit. It's formed around a little fort that was made for the Koreans to protect themselves against Japanese pirates, or something like that. We need to read more about it. There is a statue of a guy in the park who clearly had something to do with it all, but the explanation was mostly in Korean so we couldn't figure it out. 

At the end, we decided to slide down the hill on our booty's. It was a pretty steep hill and proved to be pretty fun. We will have to take something like cardboard or something like that to slide down next time. 

We have some fun videos of it but I can't upload videos until we get our household goods (computer). It was a pretty fun time though. We all went home and crashed for the afternoon after that. We headed into the city that night to go to Daiso (their version of family dollar, but better). It was a great day!