Chuseok is a Korean holiday that's very similar to America's Thanksgiving Day. It's a day for giving thanks to family and ancestors, getting together to enjoy traditional meals and visiting ancestral burial sites to pay respects. Unlike Thanksgiving Day, Koreans have a very specific routine that many people follow: prior to the holiday, families prepare traditional food; on the first day of the Chuseok, a family will go to the husband's parents and have a traditional meal, then visit their ancestors graves. Following that the family will then visit the wife's parents to have a traditional dinner and furthermore spend the night there.
Of course, we are not Korean, nor do we have any family to visit in Korea, so during this 5-day holiday Amanda cooked the two of us a delicious dinner that consisted of a juicy boiled chicken with double-baked potatoes and cheesecake!
We also met up with Iris and went bowling, and then went back to her apartment and played Nintendo Wii!
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