My Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving)
Overnight in the ferry...picked a terminal at near random and got the right one, which was good as was running late..splurged on a room with a bed so got my own bunk bed with a pull around curtain...met these two Korean girls, my age, helped me find a place to charge my cell (kiosk, 1,000 Won)...they wanted to take pictures with me in the morning...I gave the one my cell number...met up with a group of Americans, South Africans, and Australians who I spent the weekend with....Miniature Musuem filled with all sorts of minituarized national monuments, friend's quote, "Americans take note, the Statue of Liberty is smaller than you think."...it was, too, compared to the Eiffel Tower, which STILL towered above us...kicked butt at go-carts (who says you NEED to use the breaks on those things?)....checked out a waterfall that fell directly into the ocean...and another one...which we managed to do a sort of winding snake circle towards, kind of in exactly the opposite direction, hard to explain...
I talked to the taxi driver about being an elementary school teacher...banged myself up pretty well at go-carts...interesting old guy carved a smile into my volcanic rock Buddha...I took video...spent money far too freely...took random pictures with various cartoon figures and buildings...slept in a bed both nights...realizing, of all things, am becoming addicted to the triangular musubi (?), rice wrapped in dried seaweed with some kind of filling, and melon ice cream pops, very creamy and delicious...I shall miss having those, cheap, convenient, when I return to...the States?...wherever...
I want to go to Seoul for a day.
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