10/27
I finally got out of the house. I meet Andrew, Michael's friend the "baby engineer", and the three of us went to busan to see fireworks. The largest firework display in South Korea. We left at about five and drove to busan. Then drove around a random parking where Korean men shouted at us. Pretty sure it was actually a bus parking spot but they let us park so who knows.
Any who, we then got on the subway to get from the outskirts of the city to the center. There was supposed to be something like 2 million at the fireworks so the subway was to save parking and getting out of town time. Very clear easy to navigate subway. There was an old Korean man sitting across form me and Andrew who caught my eye and smiled a rather crooked, yellow toothed grin at me and patted the seat right next to him. "5 dollar?" He said with an even wider grin. So I scooted a tiny bit closer to Andrew (who is over 6 foot tall and like 25 ish) and learned not to make eye contact with the people who stare at me.
Of course we get to the center of busan to find out that the fireworks have been canceled due to the fact that it had been pouring rain all day. So we went out to dinner! Which was also fun. Had we known we wouldn't have traveled two hours to it but it was good to get out of the house and the bridge that they where supposed to launch fireworks from was a beautiful sight. So dinner then a very uneventful ride home.

10/28
More groceries! Woo! And this time it is Costco amount of everything. So we went from having zero baking powder in the house to having a 15 lb bag of baking powder. But it's very nice to have a larger variety of food.and who doesn't love wanting around Costco.
That's about all we did. And moved some more furniture. And slept in. Pretty much sums up Sunday.

10/29
Which brings us to today. It is three in the afternoon and I have reorganized the kitchen so all our new mass quantities of food could have a home. Went for a walk down the street. Admired the fish that were in tanks right off the docks down the block. A huge tank of flounder, and eels and I didn't actually look that hard. Just got distracted by the flounder. Man those are weird fish.
Then I worked out. I couldn't find a single set of weights in the house so I used two bottles of Bacardi. Which you know just made me laugh. Worked like a charm for being light weights though.
Now I'm going to slightly shift some more furniture and finish watching Harry Potter. Oh and wash some towels.
  And figure out how to tell my internet that I can't read Korean so pleas quit changing all my web sights to it. I have no idea what anything says now!

10/25

Another day of hanging out at Michael's house. BUT! We unpacked all of his art yesterday. 12 boxes of at lest two pictures each. It was like Christmas for me. Piece after piece of beautiful art which are now leaning against the walls of the hall waiting to be found homes. To make it even better I spent all this morning un packing all of Michael's carpets. Which are pieces of art themselves. So it's been a good two days!
Then I started to rearrange the living room and make it feel homey here.

I love being right by the ocean. With the side door open I can spend all day listening to the waves. The best thing about Michael's place is that all the walls that can have windows on them. Big windows!

Thank you so much for writing on my blog! It makes me smile to read what everyone is up to. I will go out and find stuff to socialize soon. One of Michael's friends works out a lot so I'm hoping she will take/show me where her gym is. For right now I am going to lay all of the bubble wrap (that was around every single picture) across the floor and have a one person dance party. Bubble wrap just makes me happy!

10/20

The first step of my journey has happened. I got on an airplane. And it was horribly hard. I sat in the airport with my mom, dad, boyfriend (Aaron) and his mom (Tracy) and sobbed as I said good bye for now. Then I took three deep breaths and walked through security. Which took up absolutely no time at all so it didn't distract me in the slightest! Then to my gate and I sat down and kept crying. Which is when a very nice man came and sat by me to ask if I was alright. He was going back to New Mexico to finalize the sale of his house so he and his wife could permanently move up the the Dakotas.

A crazy short plane jump to Denver then a speed walk through the airport to get to my gate for San Francisco. Where I chatted with a man I had just meet as the plane from rapid landed in Denver. Then 2 and a half hour flight to San Francisco. I sat next to more nice people this time a couple from Boulder, Colorado going to Monetary for a library conference and the man flies to Japan for business often so explained the international terminal to me. The plane landed 20 minuets late and I had a nice jog through the international terminal, only freaking out a tiny bit because my flight was already boarding.

It was all good of course and I sat way in the back of the plane next to a window and a really interesting man who works in Silicon Valley but grew up in India. He told me about India and how much he loves Thailand and his job and a tiny bit about his family. Very interesting, very nice man.   Then we settled in for our 12 hour flight. So far I have watch a weird movie which I think was kinda good but I'm also a bit punchy so I honestly don't know. I have listened to all of the Shins songs Aaron loaded on my I pad and am working on the Strokes. Tried to sleep for a while. I have no idea how long we have been flying or how much longer we have. I'm pretty sure we are flying over a far eastern section of Russia. And the damn TV screens keep glitching!


10/22

First day at uncle Michael's house. To finish off yesterday we landed with out event got thought the airport and finally saw a face I knew. Then Michael and I caught a train from Incheon airport to Seoul station. One of the first thing I noticed was 1: everyone wears amazing shoes, 2: I am taller than most of them! So hung out at Seoul station until our next train which would take us from Seoul to Ulsan. Had some ice cream and a green tea smoothie thing that I have no idea how I ordered. A two and a half hour train ride, on a train that was going 180 mph at one point, and we got to Ulsan. Then we got in a taxi for the 30 minuet amusement park worthy ride to Michael's. They have the coolest GPS systems. Not only do they direct you on the quickest route but they tell you when you are on radar. So that makes speed limits extremely optional 60 km/h can totally be fudged to 180 km/h that's fine. Red lights are apparently a bit optional as well. But man was it fun! Ok I was a bit punchy, at that point I'd been up for more than 24 hours.

A quick tour of the apartment a shower and finally bed. Which brings us to today. Michael works so I am alone. Happily I slept all though the night and woke up at 8:30 Seoul time. So far I have watched 3 movies and taken a bath and wished I had Internet connected. I have decided I do not like blue ray über high definition movies. Everything is to sharp and shiny. It makes me feel like I am watching reality TV and I don't like it. I like the sort of unreal effect movies have with out high definition.  

Michaels house apartment is the top floor and you can see the ocean from almost every window. He has several hundred DVDs so I can veg out for days without running out of things to watch! I am lonely right now. A bit jet lagged. But it's raining and there are lots of movies to make me laugh.

10/24

Haha Internet! I spent an hour yesterday rummaging through every stack of paper I could find in search of the freaken Internet password. But success was mine! So I finally have Internet and it is a much less lonely world.

The only exciting thing that happened yesterday was we went shopping! Oh my god... The store we went to is called home plus and it is like a super Walmart on steroids. Multiple floors which you could go up or down to on slope moving walkways that had groves to fit your cart wheels and everything you could ever want in the form of food, home decor, electronics ect.  You name I bet you could find it! I had so much fun just getting to look at everything. They had a kimchi bar with at lest 9 different types of kimchi (which I got to try at dinner at a meat bar where you go load a plate up with meat and cook it at the grill that is in the middle of your table. The best way to eat the meat was to wrap it up in a lettuce leaf with sauce, grilled onions, and garlic. Yum. The kimchi was interesting. Something I will defiantly try again but not something I immediately loved.) I could have just wandered in the grocery store for hours. Which is good because everything is in Korean so you have to walk up and down every aisle to find what you want. The signs won't tell you much if you can't read Korean.