Yet another week

Oops I have let another week fly by without writing about it. Im getting good at this being busy thing.

Last Friday we hosted a thanksgiving dinner for Michael's friends and it was quite enjoyable. There was 13 people so we made up chairs and ate on plastic tables but it was more about the people around the table. Tara and I cooked for a party of 13 of our family members and apparently people do not eat like our family. W have mashed potatoes coming out our ears! And had to freeze some of the turkey.

Saturday we had a thanksgiving dinner at one of his friends houses so I got to meet even more people. And we watched the football game. (Funny story. We are in Korea so the football game was recorded via the Internet. Being the exciting game that it was it went into overtime. And Texas was lining up to make the potentially winning field goal... And the recording quit.  Bahahaha 3 hours, 45 minuets, and 30 seconds of football. Most people sitting there for the entire thing! And it quit. All they needed was another 45 seconds. Poor people who are actually into football.) Then Tara, Michael, and I went to see some of the night life in downtown Ulsan. And we had some fun.

The only productive things from Sunday was that Tara and I went for a run and cleaned our room. We rock.

Monday was Tara's birthday! So we went to yoga class in the morning then lunch at a random coffee shop, then some shopping, then some chilling, then some grocery shopping, then dinner and pie with candles. All in all a rather successful day.

Tuesday we bummed around then went to Ilsan beach and did a hike that is from there. Super pretty. Really cool rocks that are apparently hiding a queen who turned into a dragon and is sleeping there to protect Korea from Japan.

Wednesday we did nothing. Literally nothing. It was wonderful. Who doesn't love hot chocolate with baileys and Harry Potter movies. It was also cloudy out.

Now today. We were very productive. Today we found the Ulsan culture museum. Oh my gosh Ulsan has lots of culture! Who knew. (Well old culture then they built themselves as the industrial hub of South Korea and decided to be a little anti art.) It was a very cool museum that started with stone pots and made its way all the way through to explaining oil refineries. (I use explaining loosely because the English translations were, well, short.) I never knew I could be so interested in industry but they did a very good job. There were videos (in Korean but I got the gist) of how big oil rigs are made and how cars are made. There was a wall that showed and describe what raw oil can be processed into and what that is then used in. I had no idea it was in so much stuff. Petroleum is in everything. We also met the nicest tour guide who walked us through and talked us through everything. She spoke almost no English and we speak basically no Korean so it was lots of gesturing and one word descriptions but she was wonderful. And then she started teaching us korean. Writing everything down and taught us their vowel sounds and then started with words. I was a bit confused through most of it but it was very nice to have someone talking us though somethings. Then dinner and a bus ride home (we are getting good at this bus thing. Though to be honest I trust Tara most of the time with all things involving direction. I seem to be missing an internal compass. Seriously half the time I will be walking in entirely the wrong direction. Woo getting lost like a pro.)

That's all for now! We are working on our plans for branching out from Korea. Hoping to go to Japan next week. Planning to spend a week there. So excited!

I tried to post this on Thursday but it wouldn't let me. So here it is and I will do the weekend later.