South Korea

Well in just 5 1/2 days we will heading for Seoul, Korea. We leave from SFO on Sunday and will arrive in Seoul on Monday 5:25pm and have the evening at our leisure. Our flight is about 12 hours so that may be an early bedtime after we get to the hotel and unpacked and calmed down or maybe not.

Tuesday the 25th will be a visit to a 243 acre Korean Folk Village that is a reconstruction of huses from all over the county and from the Choson dynasty (from July 1392 to August 1910). We have a traditional Korean lunch and then visit the branch at Kyunggi-do.

Wednesday the 26th we visit Kyongbok Palace, from the same dynasty, after lunch we get to shop at Insadong Street.

Thursday - Sunday 27-30 is the convention.

Monday the 31st we vly to Beijing China and have the day to leisure.

Tuesday the 1st we go to the Temple of Heaven, Peking Duck lunch and off to Tiananmen Square and then the Forbidden City.

Wednesday the 2nd we head to the mountains to visit the Great Wall of China. After lunch we evisit a cloisonne factory (this is the art used for decorating bowls, jewelry, etc). An optional foot massage is being offeren in the evening on our return to Beijing (SO THERE!!).

Thursday we head home. Well that is the outline of what we are scheduled to do, we'll see how we can fill it out with adventures and escapades! TTFN! lj