Daegu

So this past weekend we went down to Daegu to meet up with some friends from Chile. Turns out that going in bus vs. train takes the same amount of time (three hours and forty minutes)! So we went for the cheaper bus route, but ended up paying like 24,000 for each way, per person...we didn't have time to wait for the cheaper bus because we only had Saturday and Sunday to get there and back.

So we took the bus down there and took the metro to stop #131 (there are only two short metro lines in Daegu) and met them under a stage. We all immediately went to the love motel we were staying at, took showers, left our stuff there, and headed out for food and booze. We ate at The Holy Grill, a Mexican food restaurant owned by some Canadians. Ronald and I had gone there the one other time we were in Daegu, and it was super good, so we had no trouble convincing the group to eat there. Sorta pricey, but totally worth it.

After that we bought drinks in a plastic bag-like thing and walked around looking for the bar where all of their other friends were. It was an imitation English pub and before entering I snuck into the shop next door and bought some really cute vintage earrings -- success! Anyways, after that we bar-hopped and then ended up at a noraebong (karaoke room) and after just heading back to sleep, but not without the obligatory stop at the pizza-in-a-cup lady. She serves little pizzas in a cup from her little food stand and they are delicious.

The next morning around noon we checked out (doing this by leaving the large plastic key in a box glued to one wall of the elevator) and went to a breakfast place (on the same street as The Holy Grill, one block down) that some of the kids had been to the day before. It was an American style breakfast restaurant. I ordered a berry smoothie and Ronald and I shared the "breakfast" and "ham cheese sandwich". The "breakfast" consisted of a salad with balsamic dressing placed in the middle of: toast, scrambled eggs, sausage, and french fries. The "ham cheese sandwich" was a club sandwich basically. Strange sauce, though.

After we decided to walk around a bit and go shopping, but after about 20 minutes we just headed to the bus station and caught the next bus back to Seoul.

Anyways, it was nice to hang out with our Chile contacts before they leave for the states and England.

Off to the DMZ on Saturday and Jeju Island next Tuesday for Chuseok. Hopefully we'll get to meet up with some of the people we met in Daegu (one is a Sewanee grad C'07!)