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Published: April 14th 2009
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These past couple months have been fairly uneventful. It is now starting to warm up we are becoming more active. Two weekends ago we went on a caving and ferry trip that was pretty cool. We went on a "pharry" ride or so our tour guide called it! Everything was mostly dead, so the view was gorgeous just all brown. After the ferry ride we went to a cave. We were just expecting a hole in the wall, but it was massive. The cave appeared to go on forever and we didn't even have the chance to follow all the caverns. We were extremely impressed with the cave especially when we got to get within inches of a sleeping bat. Josh took a close picture and it about scared me to death. I have seen bats on TV but being close enough to get rabies just creeped me out. After that we went to see three weird rocks and went on a "light hike" to Koreans this mean straight up stairs for 30 minutes. Koreans are not that athletic, but they sure are in shape.
Last weekend was Josh's birthday and it seemed to last the whole weekend. We met
a bunch of friends for dinner and then went to an all you can drink free tequila bar. Needless to say Josh got smashed! The bar was really cool; they put up a "happy birthday Joshua" and its “Josh's day" sign on the huge projector screen that was flashing bright colors in the rhythm of the music. All our foreigner friends were there, but we still wished that our friends and family from home could have been there too. After that we went bar hopping and came home late. The next day we were worthless to do any sort of activity, but staying at home and relaxing was nice too considering the long week that we had.
This weekend was very eventful. We went hiking, went to a Korean basketball game, went shopping, and went to a war memorial. I was extremely impressed with their war memorial. It was probably the most entertaining museum that I have ever visited. They had super old tanks and aircraft that were open to the public to climb in and play around. They had a large memorial devoted to all the soldiers, I was really surprised to see how many US soldiers participated
in the Korean war.
We started up exercising again... we were a bit lazy in the winter months. We run along the river on a path right next to our house. The path is perfect it even has the padding on it like a regular track. School has been difficult; they seem to just keep giving us more and more work with less and less time to complete it. We usually leave work fairly frustrated, so its convenient to be able to go run and let out some aggression real close to our house. We also have a "golf" course behind our house. It's not real golf its called Park Golf. Its like a combination of croquet and golf. The balls are a little smaller than a baseball and you get one club its short and shaped like a mallet. It's pretty fun and I actually got a hole in one last weekend!!! As for golf goes in Korea they have real golf courses they are just extremely expensive. So Jenna and I have been playing screen golf. This is when you play golf with real clubs and a real ball indoors and you hit into a screen. Now
the screen has a projection of the golf course on it so it looks like your hitting your ball on the course. It is basically like a giant golf video game and the best part is the floor moves to give you a realistic feel of standing on a course. For example if you are on a hill in the game the floor will tilt to mimic a hill just like outside, IT IS AWESOME! !
We now only have 3 months until our contract is over. We aren’t counting or anything! We absolutely can’t wait to go travel and then come home. The next 3 months we should be able to keep ourselves busy. There is still a lot of Korea that we have yet to see and with only 13 weekends remaining we have a lot to do. Josh's mom will also be visiting us in June, so we look forward to showing her around.
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Caitlin
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Fun!
I love your blogs. All that stuff sounds like so much fun. Although, I could never go in that cave. Even the pictures make me claustrophobic! Miss you guys xo Caitlin