A Bit Anticlimactic

Saturday, November 1, 2008

I guess I am making myself out to be quite the liar these days....

I am kinda in a bad mood right now, so I am not sure how long this will be. Let's see...

Last weekend we went to Seoul on Saturday morning and met up with a friend of ours and went to the Seoul Grand Park zoo. It was a lot of fun. A lot of animals that we had seen before, but we able to get a lot closer to (good or bad, not too sure) since the regulations here are nothing up to the standards of North America. Took a bunch of really good pictures. It was funny, at one point we went inside and everyone was crowded around this one cage. We thought it was a very tropical animal or something, but it was a beaver. We laughed. Quite the attraction here I guess. We saw some mountain lions fighting and that was quite loud.... but it was a lot of fun until it started to rain.

We left after that and searched for a costume shop, that we never found and then headed off for our Prov reunion in the Insadong Starbucks (the only Starbucks in the world with their sign in Korean). It was great to see familiar faces and catch up with people. It is amazing how many of us are actually here in Korea at the same time, not even half of the people were able to make it to the reunion, but it was mostly people from our years there. It was a lot of fun. We thought it was cold out that day and that there was no humidity, but Mark Little who came to visit was dying from heat and humidity. I guess we have just gotten used to it. I wonder what it will feel like to be in the prairies again??? It was so nice to have a Caramel Macchiato done properly.

After that we headed to a house warming party for the boys. It was fun. We met some more people, but I found myself mostly just talking to the prov people that we there. Kyle and I get a lot of reactions when people find out that we are married, so we kinda got tired of the reactions of "oh, you're too young" or "you will never get to meet new people" or "why would you do that" or any other rendition of those.... so we stuck with people who knew us. I get tired of saying the same things to everyone over and over again sometimes. So, its nice to speak with people who already know you and where you are in life and who can fully understand you. It was a great relief.

Not long after we took the subway back to Krista's house and slept there for the night. I was up all night sick with the cold (we both have a really bad cold right now). It was so nice of Krista to let us stay with her. We had a great time and it was nice and cozy fitting three of us in a bachelor suite. I love that girl. It was so nice to be out there with her.

The next day we went to a church. I was hesitant after our first experience with Korean church, but everyone was saying that it was a great place. We went and we have never felt that at home in a church in a very long time. We are actually going out there again tomorrow, catching the 7:30am bus into Seoul to go back there. It was so nice that I can't even describe it. We just felt at home there. The music was great and the pastor (who grew up in Philly, and before I knew that I thought he must have some black in him somewhere by the way he talked) was hilarious. I have not laughed that hard in a service, I think, well, really ever!

After church Kyle and ditched the main group of 15 people going for Vietnamese food and went with Steph (another Prov friend) to TGI Fridays. The food was great and we had great conversation as well... even though we kinda feel like we dumped on Steph a little bit, but I hope she didn't feel that way. I will have to ask her tomorrow.

Alright, I am done. Sorry this has been anticlimactic after I gave you the "preview" and made it sound all exciting, but as I said, I am not in the best of moods right now and I am very tired and a knot in my back is killing me sitting at the computer.... so I will post some pictures tomorrow when we get back from Seoul.

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