Four Schultz's and a dog in Seoul: Gyeongbokgung palace

Today thanks to my lovely husband I got to go out and explore, WITHOUT the kids. So with new friends Kimberly, Milana, Erin and her husband Paul we went to Gyeonbokgung Palace. We took the subway there and was very happy to find out we only had to change trains once so it was less than an hour away.

Us with our tour guides.

We arrived at the subway station to be greeted by a bunch of middle school students that were acting as free tour guides. So we said sure we would love a free tour around the palace. Our guides Brian was in 8th Grade and our Jason (I think) was in 6th grade. They did a fantastic job, gave us lots of interesting facts about the Palace we would not known otherwise. I really cant imagine me in the 6th grade giving up my Saturday to give a bunch of strangers a tour around a Palace in another language. They did think we were different to the other tourist they had, more into the details of things they thought.
The Palace was really cool, lots of people (well until it started to rain AGAIN). Brian our tour guide did get slightly concerned when it started to rain, and we asked him if he knew about the Typhoon expected on Monday. He was quite shocked by this news and was concerned because he would have to go to school. At KIS they might cancel school for the day (to be made up on a Saturday) and when we asked if they might cancel school for him his answer was NO, trees could be broken, roads flooded there would still be school. That is the Korean attitude to school though, most kids will finish there normal school day then go to another school, and also so some school on the weekends. For example our tour guides above, practicing their English skills showing tourist around.
The Palace cost less than $3, it was huge. We did not see all of it you could easily spend all day there as well as in the attached museum. Anyway here are some photos.