Notes | February in 10 Photos

February was filled with many sunny winter days spent walking, eating, and exploring, with jackets left unzipped and hats and gloves tucked away in bags, just in case. I’ve never been one to mind cold weather. It gives me an excuse to hole up indoors, drink my homemade tea lattes, and binge read with the kitties by my side.

We really wanted to go snowboarding in Japan this February, but by the time we started to cobble together plans, an unexpected work trip to Seoul popped up for Sly. I guess it was a good thing we never bought tickets. Sigh. One day we’ll make to Japan to snowboard.

Instead, we took a mini trip to Seoul, and even though it wasn’t really for vacation, and even though most of the time Sly had to work, we still had a lot of fun. And by fun, I mean we ate a lot. During the day I gorged on the hotel’s free breakfast buffet and at night we stuffed ourselves with Texas BBQ, Tex-mex, and Korean street food. One afternoon, I made it my mission to take the subway to Gangnam for the sole purpose of picking up a box of cruffins. It was a nearly two-hour round trip excursion just to pick up some fancy baked goods, which in retrospect sounds ridiculously first world (because it was), but at least you can’t say I wasn’t dedicated. Have baked goods, will travel. Somewhere in between all that eating, I walked through museums, did the tiniest bit of shopping, and got lost a million times along the way.

As it turned out, we squeezed in a day of snowboarding after all, but in Korea, not Japan. Neither of us felt like planning anything ahead of time so we did what we used to always do when we were kids with boundless energy who lived for snowboarding: we woke up day of, decided we wanted to go snowboarding, and then drove seven hours round trip just to get in a few blissful hours of boarding time. It was so worth it.