A brief recap of my week

Today is Thursday. So recap of the week that I haven't wrote about at all. Last Thursday I learned to play mahjong then wandered around some shopping street which were all lined with boutiques. Lots of wandering and was quite enjoyable. Then Friday the only thing I accomplished was going grocery shopping. Saturday I tidied the house and did some laundry (yay clean clothes!), then Tara and Michael got here. Sunday we lazed around the house so they could have some jet lag recovery time.

Now Monday is when we started actually doing interesting things. Tara and I took a taxi to Ulsan Grand Park. Which just for future reference you need to ask the local, only Korean speaking, taxi driver to take you to ok-dong. We wandered around the park in search of the Ulsan museum which was supposed to be by the east gate. Of course with all the maps and signs in korean and no translate app we were really just wandering hoping we run into it. W didn't but we did see that there was a butterfly pavilion and some giant trampoline things and rope web jungle gym thing (the last two were only for elementary school aged children. Dang.). The best thing we found was a coffee vending machine. You put in 500 wan (50 cense) and get a tiny little cup of rather delicious hot latte. It was amazing! Lunch however was not so amazing. We left the park and randomly chose a restaurant that was advertising Vietnamese spring rolls. Assuming that that was a good shot for being vegetarian friendly we sat down. We were wrong. It was a classic Korean barbecue with rice paper to make you own meat spring rolls. Trying to be true adventurers we guessed and ordered a noodle bowl, asking for no meat. Turns out it was sea food. With eyes. Well the shrimp had eyes. Which totally killed it for me and made me a bit jumpy.  So when I stuck my metal chop sticks back into the bowl and they scraped along something I may or may not of totally let out a small scream. That basically ended lunch. We walked down the road for a while then found a bus that would take us to the right place and took a bus home.

Tuesday Tara and I went and had coffee with the expat wives. Lots of people and very enjoyable socializing. Then we went shopping and spent the rest of the day wandering around the amazing maze of street that are referred to as old down town. It was a long day of shopping then we rounded it all off by sprinting after a bus and trying to beat it to the next bus stop. Lost to the bus but the next one came only five minuets later. So the run was unnecessary.  Rounded off the whole day by going to Zumba class.

Wednesday we hung out in the morning waiting for the dish washer repair guy and  cleaning ladies to show up. They never did so we went to the Hyundai department store and bought the groceries we couldn't find at home plus. Then we came home and did some baking. Michael came home around six and informed us the dishwasher guy had canceled and that we needed to go to Costco. So we did. And spent lots of money which was a bit surprising because I really didn't think we needed any more food. Costco is a dangerous place apparently.

Now today. Tara and I caught a bus to down town and played mahjong again. Then hitched a ride back to the foreigners compound with the yoga instructed and did yoga. Then came home to do more baking. We made avocado bruschetta and fruit smoothies for lunch. Rather amazing. Now hanging out until the pies are baked then we are going out to get coffee. Woo!

Michael is hosting a thanksgiving dinner tomorrow so we are working on making anything possible in advance. He has a very very small oven.