Love at First Sight...

Love at First Sight...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

sunday's

only the beginning...
so, yesterday i slept the day away. of course, i woke up around 8 pm last night and got dressed and went to emma's room. i was so super hungry so around 12:30 am (early sunday morning) we decided to go out into the city of Suwon and find something to eat.

cute japanese restaurant...
we decided to grab a bite to eat at this cute japanese restaurant. there were actually a lot of places open for business in the early hours of this sunday morning. we ordered a chicken meal in english. thank God the hostess/waiter spoke good english. emma decided to order a smoothie with her meal. she was under the impression that the smoothie would be equivalent to a smoothie that would receive from smoothie king. not so much? you ask well, what kind of smoothie was it? well, it was an alcoholic beverage! more alcohol than smoothie. it was actually really good. and of course we sat, ate and drank the entire pitcher of smoothie juice.

next stop...bed...
so we paid the tab headed out the door and headed back to our rooms. on the way back to our rooms we came across a cute little shop that had really nice tiles. tiles. yes, the kind you put on the floor inside of a home or building or etc. of course, emma thought they were so nice, she thought perhaps she can grab one and stick a huge block inside of her purse. i have come to the conclusion that anytime emma eats or drinks, she gets the urge to "steal." yes, i guess drinking brings out her "inner thief." i actually thought this was hilarious and egged her on. she stood at the cute little shop for a few minutes, and i guess she came to the realization that the tile was too large to fit inside her bag so she declined (but i must say before i forget many hours later today she mentioned she should have taken the tile to frame for her new apt- too funny even sober she still has "thieving issues."). as we walked further, we came across a seafood market. and in S Korea it is common to pick your seafood from the tank (live) and purchase it and have the market to cook it for you on the spot. so as we were heading home. we saw the live squid, fish, and crabs out side of the market in their tank. emma, then got the bright idea, to "free" the fish because the deserved a right to live. i reminded emma that if she did in fact break the lock to free the fish they would die. we are not close to a beach and we don't and wont have a bucket and or water to put them in. she was satisfied with the advice i gave her and we decide to continue or hike back home. of course since we had a few drinks my sense of direction was so off, if emma hadn't been there i would have been walking in the wrong direction and perhaps wouldn't be here to write this blog now. but then too. if emma wasn't their i wouldn't have drank a pitcher filled with alcohol.

and it begins again...
so, emma and i finally arrive home around 4:45 am. and we had a really good time. good food, good chats and a good walk. we woke up this afternoon and decided to take the bus into Seoul, S Korea.

here we come..
we arrive in Seoul starving. well, aleast i was. so we decided even though the korean food is dirt cheap we don't want that. we would rather have american food. like a mc donalds, burger king or something along those lines. we will be moving into our locations next week and we may not have this luxury for a year so we might as well really eat a good meal today. we come across a TGIF. omg. it was like coming upon a gold mine. we were so excited. we walked to the hostess seating section and were immediately placed at our table. bypassing all of the natives waiting to be seated. ha ha we were seated first because we were foreigners and they thought we were so cool. so we were seated by Tigger (our waiter). yes, Tigger like the pooh bears best friend. that was his name. he was the sweetest server ever. he waited on us hand and foot. and even gave us his facebook name when we got ready to leave and was so excited when he found out that we would indeed actually add him.

street walkers...
so, we ate a huge meal at TGIF. which consisted of a hamburger with bacon meal w/fries for me and for emma a chicken sandwich w/fries and a smoothie (yes, this time it was non-alcohol). of course emma considered stealing the silverware. why emma? how many forks do you need? and why can't you just use the chop sticks. actually emma had a really good reason this time. she needed a knife to go with the fork she stole from the dessert place she and i and josie went to. just as she asked me to watch the door as she grabs her bag. Tigger sneaks up on her and starts asking us a million questions. ha ha ha emma wasn't able to steal the knife. i'm sure she is okay with it. the portion sizes in S Korea are really small and i don't think she will be needing too many knives while here.

cute as a button...
so we said our goodbyes to Tigger and was out the door on a quest for shorts and tank tops. we went to several different stores and we fell in love with everything we saw. everything was too cute and too cool. what did i get? the only thing i really had to have was a cute sailor fedora that i saw. it is denim and stripped w/ an anchor on the sides with buttons. too cute! it was love at first sight. emma on the other hand got everything she saw. so, after we shopped and looked around. it was dessert time.

sweet tooth...
so of course, we found this cute little restaurant that we should have gone to instead of the TGIF. a romantic restaurant. dimly lit with candles and nice decor. what did i get? i got some kind of fancy green tea sorbet w/chocolate and nuts. what did emma get? some kind of mousse. it was so good. the service again was awesome. we were treated like royalty. and of course the cost was so super cheap (unlike the TGIF where the prices were doubled on everything).

back around that mountain...
so, we decided to call it a night, we had spent most of the day in Seoul. how far is Seoul from Suwon? only about 45mins on a bus ride. so, we finally figured out which lane our bus would be in and we boarded on the bus back to our rooms. and once we get on we find that there are no more seats available. of course we had to hold onto the rails for dear life. Lord have mercy the bus driver drove without any concern for the passengers aboard. on that bus ride. we met another foreigner. he shared some advice with us and was even going to the same location as us. come to find out he lives right across the street from where we live. we chatted the entire bus ride and of course shared facebook info.

back at one...
so, we made it back and we were as tired as can be! it was a long day and a fun day. nothing much else to tell. oh well, i did stop by emmas on the way to my room went to use her bathroom to find she was totally out of toilet tissue how embarrassing is that? she had to go over to josie's room (thank God she was home) to get tissue for me. we came back to my room to check to see if we could find the TGIF guy on fbook and to see if the bus ride guy had added us. other than that. that was it. i've got to get some sleep. this will probably be a really busy week for us.

until next time...
smooches!

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