Travel Day!

Thursday, June 22nd, 2023

1:30 Minnesota Time: 

Hello Family!

    I hope you are doing well. As you know we are traveling to Korea today. In my opinion, I feel like the flight will be pretty long and pretty boring but it will be all worth it because I'll be connecting more with my identity. Today won't be very exciting, it will just be traveling. I am excited and also nervous but I hope I can work through it and have a great time with my family. I am most looking forward to the food though but just the magnitude of being able to see where I was born and partially raised is a cool feeling as well!

Love,

Max and Family

We made it!

Friday, June 23, 2023

We finally got to bed at what would have been around 7 am on Friday morning in MN after a long day of travel.  It was around 9 pm on Friday evening in Seoul.  We got to our hotel at about 6:30 pm.  Our hotel is in a fun, happening, downtown area.  It is full of shopping and the streets are closed to traffic and full of food carts.  We made a dinner out of street foods (while you were all eating breakfast).  We had skewers of bbq pork, kimpap (which is like a California roll... sushi, without the raw element), and japchae (which is a stir fry of a rice/sweet potato noodle with vegetables.  Then we all went to bed and slept well.  

We are heading off to breakfast and then our first, very full day of our itinerary.