I learned about this awesome website called Pinterest from my cousin, Jade, a few
weeks ago and that also ate up a lot of my time these past two weeks. I’ve
already spent HOURS on it! It’s amazing! It’s like virtual inspiration boards
you can make on anything, recipes you want to make or try, clothes you like,
wedding ideas, gift ideas, crafts and do-it-yourself projects, ways to stay
organized, teacher resources, books, TV shows and movies you want to watch,
products you love or want to try, etc, etc. I made Dan look through all of things I pinned
so far and he refuses to really get into it. He says it’s a girl’s website and
I can’t say I totally disagree with him. Still, I think it’s a great way to
share fun ideas with people you know and with strangers. I think it is
replacing Facebook for me. I used to
spend uncountable amounts of time on Facebook
and more and more of that time is being devoted to Pinterest. It’s definitely worth checking out!
But enough about that.
On New Year’s Eve, Dan and I went out to eat with Seth, Pete
and Fatemeh to a fun chicken restaurant called HooLaLa’s. They had yummy fried chicken and these delicious plates
with all different types of French fries! We got two of those. :) After dinner,
we went to a GS25 (convenience shop)
and each bought a beverage to drink while we walked to String. Seth and Fatemeh
hopped in a taxi when we had already walked ¾ of the way there. They missed out
too because even though they beat us by a few minutes, Pete, Dan and I saw a
bright, breathtaking shooting star! We were all in awe and it was a great scene
to see that night.
When we finally got to String, it was about 11pm. It was
pretty crowded, but mostly with Koreans. We found this to be surprising since
it’s our foreigner bar. There wasn’t anywhere to sit, so we all just chilled
behind the bar like cool people. Jeff and a few others took turns playing
guitar and singing solo. Then Rock and his band played some songs to ring in
the New Year. As midnight drew nearer, we foreigners were trying to figure out
how to have a countdown, so we just brought up the time on Rock’s desktop and
counted down to that time. Not totally accurate, but it worked nonetheless!
At midnight, we all shouted a loud, “Happy New Year!” which happened to be in the middle of one of their songs, and we hugged and kissed, as is our tradition. It was a fun night. Rob and Renee were out, along with the group we came with and Kate and Matthias. Most people were still out of town on vacation or back home but we still had fun!
Rock, rockin' out... ha ha ha
At midnight, we all shouted a loud, “Happy New Year!” which happened to be in the middle of one of their songs, and we hugged and kissed, as is our tradition. It was a fun night. Rob and Renee were out, along with the group we came with and Kate and Matthias. Most people were still out of town on vacation or back home but we still had fun!
Dan and I at String on NYE, copied Kandee Johnson's NARS Smokey Green Eyes look: http://youtu.be/82SJd7nR0AI?hd=1
New Year’s Day was a very lazy one for Dan and I. We packed
to head up North the next day, but that was about it. On Monday, we took a bus
to Dong Seoul and then another to Bears Town, which is a resort in the suburbs
outside of Seoul. It was much less busy than Muju which was great. We originally
planned to stay until Wednesday afternoon but ended up staying until Thursday
instead. We took a few pictures and videos of where we were staying and of each
other, but Dan accidentally lost my camera somewhere on the slopes or off the ski
lift. No more pretty blue Olympus for
me. :( But that’s okay. I’m getting a Fujifilm
S3200 in exchange and although it isn’t as tough or pretty as my old one,
it should take much better pictures, not that I was complaining about the
picture quality before.
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| Old camera :) |
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| New camera! :D |
When we got back to Gwangyang Thursday night, we did laundry and packed food right away. We also went to visit Lizzie and Iain who were back from the UK. I’ve been learning to play cribbage, a card game, and I finally beat someone! Haha Friday afternoon, Pete and Seth came over to meet with us and head up to Muju. We stayed in the love motel attached to Muju Ski School, the shop we rent things from. Friday night, Dan and Seth hit the slopes while Pete and I stayed in. We left only once, to get some dinner and beer. The boys took Pete’s car over to the mountain and didn’t realize that the light by the rear door was left on. This would present later problems that night/morning.
WARNING: If you drive
your own car in Korea, beware that if your car needs jumping, you better have
your own jumper cables, because NO Korean has them.
This is what Dan and Seth discovered between midnight and 2am
on Saturday. When they got back to the car to head back to us that night, they
discovered that the car’s battery was dead. They called the ski school to get
the English speaking guy, Lee, to call them a tow truck that could jump the car
for them. This ended up costing them a few hours of their time as they went
back and forth between waiting for the tow truck and calling to make sure
someone was actually coming to help them. They made it back around 2am and then
we all slept in the sweltering heat of the floor beds because we couldn’t
figure out how to turn off the heat (Korea uses floor heating).
The next day, we had to check out because we didn’t think it
would be busy enough to need reservations and apparently the place we stayed at
that night along with EVERY OTHER motel in the area was booked. So Saturday
morning, we rented our stuff, had the car jumped again (much faster this time
around when the Korean helping us could tell with certainty exactly where we
were parked), and made our way back to the mountain.
We went to eat at Lotteria,
a burger place, and saw Ivy and Sherly! We also saw them on the ski lift and at
the rental shop when we were returning our stuff before heading home.
Seth wanted to try out snowboarding, which he had never done
before, so we stuck together all day, until I decided to sit and wait for the
boys to finish. Seth picked it up right away, which was pretty disgruntling for
Pete and me. Dan just bobbed back and forth between us taking pictures and
videos of us and trying to have fun while going slow. Haha I managed to stay standing
almost the whole time, but I went really slow because now that I know I have
balance, I’m scared to try going sideways because that builds speed and I’m
sure I’d fall a lot more going that way. Lol
Here are some pictures from the day:
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| See me behind Dan!? :) |
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| Seth snowboarding for the first time EVER... not fair haha |
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| Seth and Pete |
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| Dan's shadow.. I thought this was pretty cool :) |
Since we had nowhere to stay that night, we came back to Gwangyang,
unloaded our stuff from Pete’s car and then ate dinner at our favorite Korean
BBQ place. Afterwards, Dan and I came back, watched Independence Day and called it a night.
Today was a day of cleaning, reorganizing and enjoying my
last day of vacation. Tomorrow morning, Kate and I will be back at iSponge,
which I must say, I’m excited about. Don’t get me wrong, being off of work made
for a nice break, but I miss my kids!! Dan is here for another week, so that’s
exciting too! Kate’s back from the Philippines and so I’m sure we’ll be having
more fun nights soon!
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