5:30
And I'm up again.
4 hours to go til we check out and I feel like crap. Not really THAT bad, just slept badly.. again. So now I feel really stiff and slow moving. Hot shower should take care of that.
Slightly better after having some strange milky-soda thing..
Okay, where did I leave off? Hmm.. right right.
Once we left the ship, we headed up the hills to a trolly cart system that goes up to the top of Mt Mireuksan. The posted signs said it was 1.8km long, and one-trip took about 5 minutes.
The way there we got bored and sang "You are my sunshine"
At the top there were a few observation decks, I stayed behind on the lower of the two as most of the others went up an extra 50m to the very top. While waiting, I watched a bunch of koreans that passed by get in snowball fights, there were a few snowmen around the platform.. and even added a snow bunny of my own to the mix.
So we took the car back down and headed off to a museum for another local-born conductor. ..Which wasn't open yet. They were still doing construction, slated to open in 6 days.
Okay.. so instead we'll try a folk art museum. ..Which was nothing but a gift shop selling overpriced Korea shoes, purses, and bookcase display items. We were figuring since the tourguide works for the city, she must get a commission of anything the tourists buy from this shop, so of course it's a 'museum' to visit.
Not that anyone bought anything heh
Then we piled into the bus and headed off to visit the grave of the woman that was talked about in the presentation.. which I'm assuming she's an artist?
We passed a few houses in the site, and a few of the proff's thought it could be for artists staying over.
All over the property were impatiens. Too bad they weren't in bloom yet, it would've almost covered the whole mountainside.
Last stop was another museum since 'we have extra time'. Apparently it got lost in translation. We were told it was a 'marine science' museum. But turns out it was a 'fishing technology' one (I remembered seeing it on the map before..).
Only in Korea could you have a whole building dedicated to fishing equipment, techniques and history. And since the ticket-lady's son goes to the same university (and it was near closing with us being the only people there), we got in free. Sweet deal~
Last place: dinner. If you want two words that sum up all of Korean cooking, those would be spicey and side-dishes. It was nothing but small plates of side dishes that stretched on for miiiiiles (so it seemed).
And a few new dishes I hadn't seen before... like.. worms. Yes. Earthworms. Raw, split in half and still kind of moving worms. Yum yum. No. I didn't try them. No-one did.
It was all good, lots of fish.. all full of tiny bones that made eating into a scavenger hunt.
Then the pepper incident. Blech.
Ride home was uneventful.. except the last 5 minutes or so I as about to jump off the bus to find a bathroom. Each jump and rattle making me wince in pain.
Alright, I've got 3 hours left, so I guess I'll go get one last long bath in before we leave here.
[And remember to check the FB page for photos. Uploading them twice seems silly since probably everyone that reads this came from there.]
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man worms are delicious...though i am part yeti...do you feel like a giant there? cuz asians are small? also, you could've pretended to be godzilla and killed the snowmen
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