coldness, fall, and games

I haven't posted in a while, as usual, because I usually don't have anything new and exciting to talk about. The weather is getting pretty cold these days, 30-40s, and to me, that's absolutely freezing! I am not looking forward to the winter at all. I don't know how much my body can take, and plus, the insulation here is, need I to say it, pretty crappy. In fact, our kitchen is half window, and it has ONE pane of class. One pane of glass window vs below freezing weather = very cold kitchen indeed. Even if we cook alot, it's going to be cold, and plus, we don't have an oven here so it's not like we can turn on the oven and open the door to let warmth in.

Anyway, at least, we do have an electric heater, and also getting another one. We also bought a heating pad for the bed, so at least at night we're toasty warm, but it probably means less likely to want to leave the apartment. It's already pretty hard to leave our toasty bed to brave the icy winds of outside.

and just think, this was at LAST November . . .

As for new things we did, last weekend (not this weekend that just passed, the one before), we went to Changdeokgung. It is a palace and garden in Seoul, which supposedly has pretty nice gardens and buildings, and you can supposedly only see it on a guided tour, but when we went into it, we saw a LOT of Koreans just walking around by themselves, so I am pretty confused. I really wonder if only certain people like Engilsh speaking people has to do guided and then Koreans are just off on their own? I'm not sure.

I was wearing a tshirt because it was actually warm last weekend, and then it dropped a lot of degrees.

And then this weekend, that just passed, we attended a Boardgame meetup in seoul. We used to be pretty active in our boardgame meetup back in Texas, so it was a great joy to me to find one in Seoul as well. We all went to a Boardgame cafe and played some pretty fun games: Alhambra (which we love and play many times before) and this bean game Bohnanza, which was pretty interesting as well.