Saturday in Seoul

Hi there its Saturday morning in Seoul and we are staying in the Samsung Cooperative Residence -sort of like a student hostel -and I am filling in some time while waiting for the washing to dry in the laundry-Lynds is upstairs reading - and have 5 minutes left on the computer in the lobby -camera is upstairs and I will try later to upload photos -yesterday it took us most of the day to get here from Tokyo ( where we were very sad to leave our friends Ruth and Marco who have been so hospitable and such fun to be with ). left their apartment and walked back to hotel Laforet to get the Airport Limousine bus at 8.20 am to airport which took about an hour, our Korean airlines flight left on time at 12.55 pm and arrived in Seoul 4pm -then took 3 hours in horrendous traffic to get to our hotel -will stop now to post this and come back later.
room is as I thought it would be -very small but quite well organised and as long as we are disciplined it wont be too bad for a week. We are just down the road from the convention centre and the first thing to do today is to find our way there and get familiar with the place.
Had great Korean BBQ meal last night at local place in the carpark opposite our Residence.
now 11.10 am and Imelda the maid(aka Helen) has finished the washing and ironing, we have found an ATM which produces cash from NZ credit card, found our way to the conference venue and I have registered, we have booked a tour for tomorrow at 7.30 am to go and visit the Demilitarised zone and tunnels( at South and North Korea border) and we are now in the conference free internet cafe ( on an English keyboard and English language praise the lord!! ) and behold some photos have uploaded -these are from the visit last weekend to Hiroshima and Miyajima Island.