Vacation!

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Sorry for the delay in getting this written, but my computer at home has decided it no longer wants to turn on. I’m hoping to find somewhere to take it this weekend. Skype works on my iPod, but I don’t have wireless at my apartment. Sigh…

We had vacation last week and it ended up being very nice. The new girl, Kristin, and I went to Busan on Wednesday and returned on Thursday. There was supposed to be 500,000 people at this beach, unfortunately the weather was foul so not too many people were out. We went to the Busan aquarium and had a blast. For a country that eats almost all sea life, they did a wonderful job show casing the animals. They had one of the best shark tanks I have ever seen.

After the aquarium, we headed towards downtown to find a hotel. This was not as easy as I had hoped. The taxi driver had no idea what I was trying to say and had to call over a police officer to get help. Once we managed to get to downtown, it turned out that there were not too many hotels in the area. Love motels here are cheap and tend to be quite nice. Since we were having trouble finding a place to stay, I started asking random foreigners if they knew of a good love motel. Man, I have never gotten more offended looks in my life! No one was able to help, but we did find an acceptable hotel for the night. We went out for dinner and a few drinks then crashed for the night.

The next day we packed our things and headed to a temple. We managed to use the subway system and then grab a taxi up the mountain. The temple was beautiful, as was the scenery around it. I took a lovely little hike by a creek. I had to walk on large rocks, which reminded me of Valencia dock at home. I stopped to wash my face in the water. It was so clean and refreshing. I can totally understand why someone could live there. I am so proud of Kristin and me for managing to get to Busan and back all on our lonesome!

Since I’m at work I have to end this blog here. Hopefully I’ll have time to post about our trip to Seoul. I hope all is well with everyone and I miss ya’ll!