Dan & Catt in Korea!: Catt - Dan's 26th/27th Birthday Celebration!

Well, Dan turned the big 2-6 several days ago, and we celebrated Korean style of course! Now, aging is different here in Korea. On New Year's Day, technically everyone turns one year older. So that makes Dan 27 and me 26 in Korea. It's a strange system in many ways. For example, if a baby is born in December, it will still turn 1 year older in January with the new year. Even though its technically only one month old. Get it?

So anyways, we started the night at Dan's favorite restaurant, Self Bar. Its an all you can eat Korean BBQ place. We ate there to our hearts content for only 10,900 won! (About $10) After, we went out for coffee. Coffee shops here are different than in America too. They don't open until about 10am in most cases, but then stay open until around midnight. Its common for people to go for coffee with coworkers after work or dinner. That's why they stay open so late.

At the coffee shop we of course had coffee but also dined on Dan's birthday cake, an ice cream cake from Baskin Robins that our lovely friend Choua got for him! (pictures below) After coffee and ice cream we headed out for some good old fashioned noraebang, Korean karaoke. Noraebang places are as common as coffee shops and convenience stores here, as in, there are A LOT. We went to one in our favorite neighborhood and spent about an hour and half there.

To end the night we came back to my place and played Cards Against Humanity with our friends Choua and Matt. All in all, it was a great birthday in my opinion. Can't wait to see what happens for mine in a few weeks! :-)

Love and miss you all!!! <3