That's me, standing in the middle of a normally busy 4-lane street in Suwon. This holiday weekend so many people leave town to spend time with their ancestors that Suwon and Seoul were actually kind of quiet. Korea is the only Asian country that observes Chinese New Year quietly. Other countries have parties and parades, but Koreans bore it up with something called 'family time'. The reduced number of people and cars was weird, but the best part was that we didn't have to stand on the subway! Yahoo!
Like I mentioned yesterday, most shops and restaraunts were closed for the weekend, so once again we found ourselves back in Itaewon to be fed. On the way to the restaurant I took these shots of 'Ostrich House', a cruel store the sells handbags made from the hide of my favorite bird.
Dayna, Mary and Vanessa from the Suyu English Villagey joined us at Ali Baba's, an egyptian restaraunt with hookah deserts. The place had a nice atmosphere but the portions were ridiculously small for the price. Still, it was nice to have some non-korean, non-italian food for a change. Mel had the lamb and I had some chicken with egyptian rice, pita bread and hummus. Yum!
Afterwards, we went back to Suyu and had drinks at Dragon Bar. The bar was nice and offered free popcorn, which was appreciated after such small suppers! The best thing was that the bar had an electronic Darts game, which was basically just a dartboard that calculated your score for you.
This is where most of my darts wound up: on the floor...
Random Boop graffiti.
Since we had Monday off because of the holiday, we were able to spend the night at Dayna's place. The pic is everyone feelin' good (thanks to some end-of-the-night McD's/Jager) on the bus ride back to campus. We played some Skip-Bo, and in typical fashion the name of the game was 'screw Shawn'! Well, that was pretty much it for our exciting 3-day weekend. I'm not really excited to go back to work tomorrow as I know there's only a one-day weekend waiting for me next week, but on the bright side...
...only 17 more days until we're chillin' on the sunny beaches of Phuket, Thailand!!! Wheee hee!!!! Can't wait.
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