Rachel and I slept until after 12 today! Ozzy tried to get me out of bed sooner by scratching on the door and crying for about an hour, but I ignored him and willed myself back to sleep. That cat just can't stand being ignored for longer than a 6 hour night. He's so spoiled. There wasn't much for us to do today, as most everything was closed in Seoul for the Lunar New Year. Traditionally, Koreans travel to their ancestral homes to give honor to the memory of their ancestors with certain rituals, and to visit with family. It was estimated that 21 million people would be on the roads from February 8-10. Can you imagine 21 million people driving around a country the size of Indiana? Quite a traffic nightmare. A normal weekend is bad...
Anyway, we did get out of the house tonight. We went to see National Treasure at the movie theater on post. I had already seen it with Chris, but didn't mind seeing it again with Rachel. It was a pretty good movie-made me think of the Da Vinci Code. I know they're making that into a movie soon with Tom Hanks, so that should be interesting. Anyway, movies are free here, which is quite a change from the $9.25 they were charging last summer in Maryland. Outrageous... The only thing here is that you have to sit through the Korean national anthem, as well as our own before the movie starts. Some of Rachel's friends who have never lived in the U.S. assumed that all movie theaters played the U.S. national anthem before movies! Of course, Rachel, being new to military movie theaters, had no clue what was going on the first time she went to a movie. The theater here plays pretty decent movies-they're a couple weeks behind the States, but they do get new features every week or two. Not too bad, really. We're going to try and see some Korean movies-I heard of a couple theaters that will use English subtitles, so that foreigners can be introduced to Korean cinema. I've seen previews for a few that I would love to see. And of course Rachel's dying for anything with Won Bin, her favorite Korean actor.