We Made It!

We made it! And we finally succumbed to the many blog requests and started this.

So, it's Saturday morning, and it kind of even feels like it, which is good. Yesterday we weren't as lucky. We tricked ourselves into believing that it felt like morning and woke up and left the house. After two hours we realised that it was necessary to return to the house to "pick something up" and slept until well into the evening.

At least by doing this, we were able to keep up with Rachel and stay out well past the time I normally turn into a migraine having pumpkin and play a mini version of Jenga at a flair bar in downtown Uijongbu.

Important facts from the past three days:

Wednesday morning:

• Yen got a few hours of sleep, me not so much
• Penhy came to pick us up at 6:30 and had to literally force us out of the house (we thought we were ready until faced with the prospect of leaving)
• Disgusting grease meal at the airport
• Terrible flight to Chicago
• Brief but substantial Yenji puke at O'Hare
• Even more terrible flight to Tokyo (12 lengthy hours)
• Excellent reruns of some awesome Japanese game show with competing groups of people that just create weird and wonderful visual simulations with creative costumes and a few props. I'm not sure I can do it much more justice than that...
• Additional Yenji puke at Narita (the turbulent flights did not serve her well)
• Longest two hour flight to Inchon (near Seoul) from Tokyo ever
• At this point I probably hadn't slept for more than a total of 100 minutes since Tuesday morning
• We managed to figure out a pay phone and call Rachel from the airport. Conversation summary: Hi. Hi. We're here. Great! Kay, bah.
• We caught a bus from the airport and it turned out that it may have been the most comfortable bus in the universe. Both Yen and I couldn't manage to keep our eyes open for more than ten seconds at a time. Sleep... finally.
• Two hours later, we were standing in the middle of downtown Uijongbu. We met Rachel and then used a random bathroom beside a dunkin donuts. I knocked the mirror off the wall with my backpack, so we peed and ran.

Friday

• Woke up
• Went to Rachel's school
• Ate the best Bibimbop ever! They mixed cheese into it for the most delightful twist ever. I'm going to see how favourable I'm looked upon back in TO when I demand that they mix in the same tastiness.
• We checked out Rachel's school and it was a crazy wonderland. It looked like so much fun compared to Ada B.
• Her kids were really cute. That's all I have to say. They enjoyed looking at large white man.
• We saw them perform they're pre-hospital play routine, and in return, Rachel and I juggled and balanced stuff on my chin
• Yen and I took a cab home and pretended we were just going to pick up some Pepto before hitting the town and slept until Rachel was done work at 7pm... Terrible.
• We finally dragged ourselves out of bed for dinner at 10pm
• Delicious dak calbe (chicken and stuff in a big pan on the table)
• Saw a really big crab
• We then hooked up with Rachel's friends at a loungy restauranty bar where Yen got a Peppermint drink of sorts that was really just Listerine with crushed ice. Alcohol and mouthwash... excellent preparation ;-)
• Then we hit the "speed bar" a cool place where the bar tenders all do flairy type stuff and they have electronic dart games and jenga stuff. It was fun.

Now were getting ready to head to Seoul to check it out and hit the war museum and stuff.

Tsit for now!