Halloween

The original plan for Halloween was for me to be Snow White and for Jacob to think of a costume. However, when Halloween Eve arrived and Jacob still had no idea what he wanted to do as his costume - we had an idea. The idea resulted in Jacob being Snow White while I dressed as a Zombie Korean school girl. Jacob put on the headband, dress, and even a little pearl necklace to complete his Princess outfit. He was the Belle of the Ball - everyone loved his outfit. He's prolly going to be posted all over CyWorld (which is, apparently, Korean Facebook) as tons of Koreans wanted pictures with him. He got many compliments and words of encouragement for being a Princess. I ended up as the Korean school girl - zombiefied - complements of some blue cream eyeshadow and brown eyeshadow. Make do with what little you have!

We hoped on the train and headed to Itaewon where we met up with a ton of people. We saw lots of random costumes including the cast of The Wizard of Oz and most of the cast of Alice in Wonderland (Korean Alice!). It was interesting to see the different costumes that people came up with. If you didn't order a costume online then your choices were pretty limited. There were a lot of thrift store costumes. This Halloween was definitely one of the more creative ones I've ever seen. I think maybe I saw one or two people wearing similar costumes.
At some point in the night we ended up in a country bar - I know, country bar in Korea. The folks with those strange foreign accents kept saying that this was a redneck bar - but it was no Hiram Station! "Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy" did come on which made me giggle.
We ate awesome kebabs - which aren't like kebabs that we know. Usually a kebab is meat/vegetables on a stick but kebabs in Korean aren't on a stick. They are more like gyros with tortilla wrap instead of pita bread. Tasty little things. Street food rules in Korea.

I wish I had more pictures! I didn't end up taking very many - it was a busy night. But I will steal photos that other people took for your viewing enjoyment.
It was definitely a different Halloween.
Something great/rotten about Korea - everything is alive at all hours of the night. There is always something you can do, somewhere you can go, etc. So 4am rolls around and you don't even realize that the sun is going to come up in a few hours because everything is still so alive. Whereas in the states, you get kicked out of places at 2-3am and have no where else to go. I don't know if Korea ever really sleeps.