Day 5: Wedding dresses

Today we started out by going to the Samsung D'Light building. We had to change metro at Gangnam station, thus we had to take a photo there ;)

The Samsung building was a bit disappointing, as there weren't that many new items to see. One floor shows existing and soon to be released smartphones, tablets, photo cameras, laptops and televisions.

The next two floors were more like a museum, whit explanations on how things worked and a few things to try yourself, it was pretty boring.

Unless you really don't know what else to do anymore I wouldn't recommend going to the Samsung building. After this we went to an electronic market, but we were finished quite quickly as this wasn't very interesting either. However, on our way to the electronics market we did stop at Baskin Robins, an ice cream shop that I had read a lot about on Internet. They had a lot of different flavors, so we decided to share 5 scoops of different flavors. It turned out that we had misunderstood the cashier and we didn't get 5 scoops, but a whole bucket filled with 5 flavors.

After we had finally finished the huge ice cream we went to the Princess diary cafe. At the station we bought some bright colored sweets, but they didn't taste as good as they looked.

This time the cafe was open and we were allowed to enter. It is a very cute cafe, with little spaces where you can enjoy a drink before or after you have tried on a wedding dress. We chose the lemonade, which was excellent and tasted really fresh. As you can't drink or go to the toilet when you have a wedding dress on I decided to get changed halfway through my lemonade.

They have a huge amount of dresses (also some hanbok) ranging from 10000 to 40000 won.

Of course I chose the biggest and most princess looking dress I could find, thus having to pay 40000 won (the dresses are grouped according to price, so you can easily keep your budget in mind). There was also a hoop skirt available for this dress. Furthermore, they have a wide variety of accessories for you to use like crowns, veils, and fake flower bouquets. I spend about 15-20 minutes making photos and just feeling awesome, though I definitely can imagine you'd spend more time here if you come with a group of friends. The owner made a Polaroid picture, free of charge, which was very sweet. I've put it next to the dozen other photos that are hanging around the cafe. I would recommend going here, it is easy to access and you will have a great time here.

Dinner this evening wasn't a great success, I think we can begin to draw the conclusion that we do not like typical Korean food.

For dessert we bought a weirdly shaped ice cream cone, which was filled whit 2 flavors of ice cream. The ice cream was okay but I threw away most of the cone.

All photos can be found at my flickr page