The Ladies Come to Yeonggwang

I had been telling some of my Canadian teacher friends that they really should experience rural Korea and come to visit me in Yeonggwang.....so a few of them took the plunge.

Carol, Vanessa and Crystal were the first brave souls to arrive. This frolicking event took place several weekends ago. Friday night we went out for some dinner and drinks, then went bowling (haven't bowled in YEARS....what a HOOT!!), then went to a Nora-bong (karaoke room) that was even more of a HOOT! Good thing we have 'day jobs'!! We threw caution to the wind and sang with abandon. Good thing the walls are soundproof. Since we didn't get started until about 9:30 p.m., it made for a very late night. On our way home, we sat on a trailer for one of the political candidates and had our picture taken since it was right around national election day (May 31st). We got some strange looks from the locals but....we didn't care. We were having FUN!!

Saturday we had bacon, eggs, toast, coffee, tea, and juice. I even cooked....unheard of but I managed to not burn anything or poison anyone so that's a plus!!

Our company swelled to 5 when Laurien joined us. Our agenda for Saturday was to go to a local beach. We headed to the bus terminal only to find that the next bus was not for another hour and a half so we piled into a taxi (very crowded back seat....normally the taxi drivers won't take 5 people but this guy was accommodating and I don't think he wanted to argue with 5 waygook (foreigner) females. Twenty minutes or so later we arrived at the beach.....a little disappointing but since the tide was out we were able to walk out quite a distance and sit on the rocks. After about an hour or so, a Korean man came to tell us we needed to come back in because the tide was coming back in. He was right....we got wet getting back onto dry land. Oh well, another adventure.

The same taxi driver came back to pick us up and dropped us off at my favourite pizza place and so our hunger was satisfied. Then we headed back to my place for manicures, pedicures, massages, etc. This proved to be the highlight of the weekend...with a lot of laughing, talking and general fooling around. Unfortunately, I missed a lot of the frivolity because......you guessed it.....I fell asleep!! WHAT is the matter with me??

Sunday was very low key and everyone but Laurien left around 11:30 for their respective homes. Laurien stayed on for a few more hours and we had some time to catch up.

All in all...a very FUN weekend. Yeonggwang will never be the same!!

Enjoy the pictures......some could not be shown to protect the guilty!!