Livin' the Blessed Life: Date Night: Zelen's

We have been so busy here this week with VBS, finishing up registering the kids for post activities, and other things, that I'm a little behind on the blogging :). Hopefully, I can catch up in the next couple of days!

Last week was our 13 year anniversary, so we got a WONDERFUL babysitter ( that's a whole other post in itself) and headed out to Itaewon. I had asked around to find a great place for us to eat....we wanted something nice, but not too expensive, and somewhere that had great food! Out of the 5 people we asked, 4 of them suggested a place called Zelen's, so of course we wanted to go check it out.

Zelen's is a Bulgarian Restaurant here in Seoul. Josh and I had never had Bulgarian food, so we were looking forward to trying something different and everyone we spoke too just raved about how great their food was. We arrived at a great time ( around 5:30 )...there was only one other couple there and it stayed like that until about 6:30. After that it started filling up really quick!

Our dinner started out with a bread basket and dipping sauce. Then came our food...and OH MY WORD!!! `Not only was it some of the best food I have tried in a long time, but there was SO much of it! Even Josh couldn't help finish it all. Since we had never eaten Bulgarian food, we decided to order the Couples entree. It was so much food, two couples could easily share it!

After dinner, we decided we wanted to go see a movie at Ipark Mall. We didn't know quite how to get there. So, after walking back to our truck and dropping off some bags we had a taxi take us.

Walking down the streets of Itaewon...

For some reason this made us think of Josh's brother, Jonathan...lol.

Ipark mall was HUGE!! As a matter of fact, it's one of the biggest shopping complexes in Korea. I believe it had 7 stories. Here's a description of it from their website: "In I'PARKmall, you can purchase all kinds of items. There are I'PARK department store (Fashion store, Living store, Culture store ), Digital Specialty Store and E-Mart (discount store), Fashion Street ….. and more. As entertainment, cultural space, there are CGV IMAX(Movie Theater),Event Park, the first E-sports Stadium in the world, Culture center and Putt Putt golf & game, Fitness center, Weddinghall and more convenience stores."

It took a little bit of walking around, but we finally found the movie theater. However, we didn't realize how popular the movies were going to be. Both "Batman" and "Spiderman" were sold out :(. The only other English speaking movie they had was "Ice Age", so we decided just to walk around Seoul a little bit, then head home. We plan on coming back to Ipark and checking it all out one day when we have more time :)