Sunday, 7 October 2012

What is basically prostuting cat cuddles

The other day, I set out on a quest. Garrett wanted to poke around in the same general area, so he inadvertently joined said quest.
We first traveled to Seomyeon, a rather long sit on the subway to begin with.
Next, we wandered around the surprising crowded and disorienting area (oh, we also got trapped in an underground shopping mall. Pretty sweet place if you ignore the OCEANS OF PEOPLE).
Now, the biggest problem with this quest was, I actually had zero directions for finding my destination. I didn't even have a name--just a dream.
We wandered for about an hour then stopped at a cupcake shop (Good Ovening, I believe). I had heard maaarvelous things about this place, but I was a little sad. Cupcakes are very different over here (not anywhere close to as sweet, or strong flavours, from what I can tell). While it was pretty good, and maybe even one of the better ones here, I think I'm just never going to buy cupcakes, here, again.
ANYWAY!
We continued on. Up the street, down random alleys. You know it was a bad situation, because Garrett was feeling all claustrophobic or something from the onslaught of people, which left me in charge. Baaad start to a quest. Finally, as I uttered "I think this is it. I'm out of ideas," and Garrett was about to join in the nay-saying, I stopped.
There was a sign with a cat, and I HAD FOUND THE NAMELESS LOCATIONLESS ONLY SPOKEN OF IN HEARSAY CAT CAFE.
The Red Ribbon Cat Cafe
How great was it? Well,
there were cats. and I got to play with them. I think that's a 10 out of 10. More importantly, these cats were pretty happy. None of them gave off an "I feel exploited by the man," sort of vibe. Best part, we got out some of the toys and had the cats all going APESHIT. I'm pretty sure most people just pet them, and maybe get them to jump a couple times, and decide that's enough exercise.
Me and Garrett are not those people. The cats were so freaking excited.
That's not either of us in the picture, btw.

So, 5$ or so and infinite cat playtime (more or less).  There were even tiny little kittens. An adult cat tried to sniff one, and the kitten just snapped at it. The older cat looked pretty miffed, but wasn't going to hit a baby soo it just kind of wandered off. There was also a black and white cat that just really enjoyed hiding in things. It slept in the corner, its butt sticking out into the hallway most of the time. There was also a weird little series of platforms hanging on the ceiling. Only after about 2 hours did we realize there were cats running around above our heads.

Only kind of rough part, we had gotten so disoriented, and even got lost going back to the subway (stupid underground mall entrance, looks just like the subway entrance) that I didn't get the best directions for it. But this is what I can tell you--




Come out of this exit from the underground mall:






Look for this weird ass piece of art (I'm pretty sure it was to the right). If you find it, turn right, and you'll see a sign on a corner or just inside an alley, with a cat on it, very similar to sign earlier in the post.

Sooo, I feel kind of bad for half-ass directions, but if I can find it based solely on "it's in Seomyeon," you can find it.

3 comments:

  1. Sounds weird but at least it gives some cats a home and gives people who can't have cats a chance to be around them.

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    1. Oh, totally! Honestly, we don't find it weird at all; we find it intriguing. We're actually more amazed that such things don't exist in the western world!

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  2. One for dogs would be interesting. I like dogs but i don't want to have one.

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