Weekend #1

Two days into the four day weekend and it has been fabulous. On Saturday, Ashley and I met for Butterfinger Pancakes (BFP from here on out) and it was freaking fantastic. I had never been, but Loren and Ashley had been raving about it forever so it was nice to have my first BFP experience. We had to wait about 20 minutes before we were seating, but it allowed ample time to look over the array of food on offer. For starters, it is hard to find Western-style breakfast in Korea because most Koreans eat the same thing for breakfast (kimchi and rice) as they do for every other meal. The menu consisted of everything one would want/need for breakfast. All sorts of pancakes, including ginger, pumpkin, pecan pancakes and mozzarella and cream cheese pancakes. I settled for blueberry pancakes and a side of crispy hash browns. We also ended up ordering a desert pancake. Chocolate pancakes with one scoop each of vanilla ice cream and cookies and cream ice cream. The whole thing was drizzled with chocolate sauce. All in all, my first BFP experience was amazing and I will be returning. Later in the day we walked around Itaewon and then watched Burn After Reading.

Today, Ashley and I met at On the Border for lunch and were planning on seeing The Changeling, but we ended up seeing Valkyrie, which was great. I'm not a huge Tom Cruise fan and didn't really like him in this movie, but I liked the movie. I'm a sucker for World War II movies. Anyway, after the mvie it was desert time and TGI Friday's has a great brownie sundae which we split and had a cocktail. We ended the evening in Gangnam at the Rainbow Hookah Bar. This place was amazing. It's in a basement and the atmosphere was really chill. The place was straight for the 60's and had tapestry cloths and scarves hung on the wall. Ashley and I decided on cinnamon flavored hookah. We also had a few drinks and just relaxed in the amazing atmosphere. I wish I could write more about it, but I'll have to go back and take it all in again. It was just such a great day and I'm so glad that I have 2 more days for my weekend!