Wednesday "CIty Tour" - 1st stop Gyeongbok Palace

This morning we met up with HaeSung Yoon, the tour guide Holt lined up for us for our 1/2 day city tour (the rest of the trip we were out and about on our own).  She was a lot of fun, and it was nice to talk with someone local to get more insight into Seoul life.  We had already done a lot of the things that are typically done as part of the tour, so we went up to see the palace which was almost right outside the door of our hotel....the Gyeongbok Palace.  We saw part of this last time in Seoul - we think - but there was a lot of the palace area and museums which were either refurbished or newly opened from a few years ago.  Here are some shots of the palace architecture and some of the two of us...

By our "year of the rooster" rooster!