The 2nd trip that I had the privilege of going on was to Everland on Monday, which is a theme park in Suwan/ Yongin. This trip consisted of Bethany, Robert, and myself. We decided to meet around 7 in the morning for coffee. We then had to be at the subway station shortly after. We were told that taking the subway would take the same amount of time that the train would take, so we decided just to take the subway the whole way. It took about an hour to get to Suwan. While on the subway, we had a run-in with a guy that had gold teeth and was a little creepy. He ended up recording us on his phone for awhile... That is probably the creepiest thing to happen to me since I came to Korea, and he wasn't even Korean. Anyway, we made it to Suwan and I was told to take bus 6000. Well, to our surprise, there was no bus 6000 and of course the information booth was closed due to the holiday. We proceeded to look at the bus schedule and walk around and finally figured out where we were supposed to go. When our bus pulled up, I'm sure there was about 40-50 foreigners trying to make their way onto our bus. We were the only Americans on the bus, though. We ended up having to stand the entire 1 1/2 hour ride to everland. By the time we made it, we had been traveling for about 3 1/2 hours. We stayed at the park for about 5 hours and rode about 5 rides. It was fun, but we were definitely ready to go home when we did. I thought that the trip getting to everland was long, but the trip home was definitely longer.... not to mention that if it wasn't for a couple of nice Koreans, we probably would have ended up somewhere that we would not recognize. On the way home that day, I got a text from Nick, a guy that I went to college with that is now in Korea. He was asking if I would like to join them on a trip to Seoul the next day. Of course I wanted to, so I said yes.
So here is trip #3, which took place on Tuesday, to Seoul. We had standing tickets, so that meant we had to find a place to stand or a place on the floor. I ended up crammed between to seats, but it made the ride more bearable. We finally got there and it was time for lunch. AND where does any American who is in Korea, and has been deprived of American food, go in Seoul????!!! Itaewon, of course! In the beautiful area of Itaewon, there is a Taco Bell, Subway, Quiz nos, Cold Stone and a pretty awesome English book store! I had the joy of eating Subway that day, and I must say it tasted better than I had ever remembered! Well after Itaewon, we went back to the market that I had visited a couple weeks before and walked around. It is probably one of my favorite things that I have done here. The last tourist area that we went to was a palace, and the name is escaping me right now. We walked around there and a couple of us ended up laying on the grass in the park and taking a little nap. After the palace, we met with one of Nick's Korean friends that had attended SNU. She took us to an amazing little Italian restaurant. Then we came back to Cheonan.
I know that was a lot of information crammed into one blog, but now I will let you see some pictures. :)
Excited to get our Banana milk after a long day of traveling :)
The group at Gyeongbokgung Palace >>>>>>
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