Friday, January 30, 2009
We arrrived in Jeju last night around 5:45pm and caught the limousine bus to our hotel. It took about 50 minutes. We walked in the front door (which just happened to be my first automatic revolving door) and the lobby alone was shockingly beautiful. It's basically a big lounge and has a koi pond weaved throughout the entire thing. The koi fish are huge!!! I keep going downstairs to see them and when you walk up to them all of the koi fish, definitely over 200 of them, all come swimming over to you looking for food. Imagine goldfish in the fish tank staring at you with their mouths wide open and then think of fish over a foot long doing that.... it is quite entertaining. There is also live music downstairs in the evening.
The food here is ridiculously expensive. We decided to splurge and get a good breakfast to start off our time here so, we ordered breakfast to our room and we get grapefruit juice, croissants, coffee, fruit, yogurt and omlettes; all for the amazing combined price for two meals of 42,000 won (which is about $40 cdn). Wow. You should see the room service menu. It is insane. Right now we are up waiting for our breakfast. We ordered it to be here between 9:00am and 9:30am.Before we left we saw Phil and told him that we were coming to Jeju and that we were staying in the Hyatt and he said that he stayed in the Hyatt in Morroco. He said that walking in there he felt rich for being able to stay there, but once he was in there he never felt so poor in his life after looking at the menus and just the hotel itself. We can definitely relate. We brought food with us and made ramen last night and had some nutrigrain bars and drank the free water in our room.
We didn't do much when we got here last night. We listened to some live music in the lobby, explored the hotel and hotel ground a little bit, watched a movie and tried to decide what we should do today. I was so tired by the time we got here that I didn't feel up to doing very much.
In Korea they have a lot of automatic toilets and the one in our bathroom here is no exception. But, the exception is that last night I felt brave enough to press the buttons on the toilet. Not so brave to be sitting on it when I did, but at least I pressed them. I pressed the "rear cleaner" while Kyle was in the seperate shower and it sprayed all over the shower door... ha ha ha. I then pressed the "front cleaner" and was completely disturbed. I tried out the air dryer and the seat heater and all the fancy gadgets while standing s safe distance away.
We are not sure what we plan on doing today. Both of us had a hard time sleeping last night. I kept dreaming about my family and I had a nervous feeling in my stomach because I really wish I could be home right now and Kyle just has a hard time sleeping when we go to hotels (usually only lasts for one night).
The smell of the water and the sound of the birds here really reminds me of home. Also, the rain definitely reminds me of home. Right now it is raining quite a bit, but we are not going to let that stop us. We are going to go out anyways and get pretty much soaked. Oh joy! I am really happy though that Kyle talked me into spending some extra money and coming down here for our vacation because it actually feels like we are vacation.
One thing I don't like about this hotel though,and pretty much the only thing, is that they charge you to use the internet. So, I am writing my blogs in another program first and then posting them very quickly when I am done.
Alright, I am going to run since breakfast just arrived and I am starving and I will write again tonight and maybe post some pictures.Love to everyone.
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