Weekend in Daejeon

Last weekend I visited a friend, well more of an aquiantance perhaps. My mom works with her mom, so figure it out. I took the ktx train (the fast train) to Daejeon which is 50 minutes. Jennifer met me at the train station and we proceeded to get on the subway en route to meet up with a couple of her friends for supper. One friend was a Korean Canadian and the other a Chinese American, their parents are Korean and Chinese respectfuly. And come to find out neither know a great deal of their parents native language. We decided to dine at an Indian restaurant. We were still waiting on a friend who was kept after at her hagwon. So, we ordered four different types of curry, and yes dad it was very good. It wasn’t too spicy or have usual flavors, but maybe food in India is different. So, we had nan bread (Indian bread), which is like a flat bread. So, after Kristine came, we left and went on a walkabout just talking and trying to decide what else to do that night. We decided to get some ice cream at Baskin Robins, which was a nice respite.

Oh, and I’ve never seen advertising like this before, but there were flyers taped to the road everwhere. The road was covered with flyers. We went to a DVD room downtown. They had many DVD’s on shelves on the back wall. As usual we can’t make a decision, luckily we had 20 minutes to ponder. We eventually chose “Yes Man,” with Jim Carrey. I first saw this movie on the plane coming to Korea. He goes to a Korean class in the movie, so we had a good laugh from that. By this time it was after 1am, so we were looking for a motel so I could spend the night. But, the only one we found did not have any vacancies, so I slept on the couch at a friends apartment. So, the roomate came strolling in at about 8am the next morning. So, the next morning I walked about the area and met up with Jenny and Kristine to have lunch and what not. We settled on a chicken golbi place. The server handed out aprons for us to wear while eating. Maybe we look like sloppy eaters, who knew? Then we went towards downtown. Jennifer knew of a “fish doctor,” which sounded intriguing. This is basically where you take your shoes off and put them in a pool and let little fish bite the dead skin off your feet. Let me tell you, it didn’t hurt so much as it tickled.

Then we went to a not 3D but 4D motion ride, like the ones in Disney World complete with the 4D glasses. For supper we dined at an Italian restaurant and we ordered the family dish. This had a salad, pizza, and pasta, and one fountain drink. It was plenty to eat and yes we shared the Sprite, this is Korea don’t you know. But, we have to maintain separate straws for some reason. At that the girls accompanied me to the train station and I bought the ticket with about five minutes to spare before departing.