Return to Suyu

Last night after "work" (aka playing Mafia, Jenga and cutting out laminated money), Mel and I took the subway alllll the way back to Suyu, which is where we used to work. Now, for some reason the one day of the week that we had to travel after "work" we wound up getting stuck there later than ever (damn laminating) so by the time we actually arrived in Suyu it was nearly half-eight.

We met up with friends at the Outback Steakhouse, which has lured us into it's pricy digs far too many times with it's delicious Aussie Fries. That's (left to right) Mel, Rob. Emmer, Eva, Mitch and Cade.

Oh yeah, the reason we went to Suyu is because Emma is leaving on Saturday morning!! After supper we went to the infamous Hot Tracks store, where many of your Christmas gifts have been purchased. After that we went with Emma while she bought a cake for herself and then went back to the school for some last minute nertz.

We only got to play one round before Mel and I had to go for the last train, but it was a good fix until we get our webcams set up for some inter-continental games! We were able to catch a train from Suyu at 11:30p and we made it all the way down to some stop that I always call "Gummy Joe"... I think it's called 'Geumjeoung' or something like that... before the trains had stopped for the night. Well, "Gummy Joe" is only 4 stops away from Suwon but it was a rough time getting home! We got in a cab outside the station which only drove us for about 10 minutes and then pulled over and asked us to get out and take one of the cabs we'd parked by. So we got out on the side of the road in the middle-of-nowhere and went into the cab he'd parked by. We showed the guy our address and he shook his head and spoke a lot of Korean and asked us to get out. There was another cab behind us so we went and showed that driver our address. Again, a lot of Korean and he wasn't willing to drive us. There was only ONE MORE cab parked there and like I said- we were in the middle of nowhere- so we got in that cab, showed him our address and again, he didn't want to drive us. We went back and forth a few times (which is hard when you have no idea what the guy is saying) and eventually got him to agree to take us as far at the subway station in Suwon. 10 minutes later and 15,000 won later we were there! Well, at least we were in Suwon. We got a third cab (a local, phew!) to take us the rest of the way. This was easily the hardest "getting around" experience we've had yet so our lesson was learned: don't miss the last subway train!