so laura, kate, janice, tom and i caught the bus from the goyang area and headed out to the airport. let me just say, being at the airport and not actually leaving the country was really hard. since being abroad, i have been craving traveling every opportunity i can get. i thailand last august, indonesia in january, possibly some place before i go to the states in august and then of course somewhere for winter break. anyways... we met everyone at the airport and headed to the ferry terminal to get our tickets to muuido.
i would like to mention that when we woke up saturday morning it was POURING!! korea rain sort of reminds me of rain at home... not necessarily a ton, but it's constant and doesn't ever seem to stop. i had to bust out my rain boots and umbrella...
once we go to the ferry terminal is when things started to get crazy. i ran directly off the bus to the bathroom and by the time i was finished and made my way into the terminal, a few of the people in our group were arguing with an older korean man. all i saw was a small broken window and the korean man was very angry and insisting that it was us that broke it. it's widely known that elders are respected in korea, more so than they are in the states most of the time. this means that whatever they say pretty much goes and there is no arguing with them. so after a solid 15 minutes of half our group arguing through a nice man who so kindly translated for us, it was established that we "may" have broken the window. After the man said he was going to call the police, which apparently he had, we apologized for "possibly" breaking his window and then all was right again. He shook our hands and let us leave the building to board the ferry.
once to the island we decided to stay in pensions instead of the beach huts because of the lovely weather korea gave to us that weekend. after getting our rooms we unpacked the massive amounts of food and drinks and hunkered down in the warmth and dryness of the pension room.
what's a pension you ask? it's basically a large open one-room room with a bathroom attached. so it serves as a sitting/living room area and then after putting blankets and such down on the floor, it serves as a sleeping area for multiple people as well.
i mentioned there were massive amounts of food and i am serious... we had burgers, brats, the fixings for those, cheese and crackers, banana chips, all the stuff for breakfast burritos the next morning, chips, homemade salsa and guacamole (which i naturally avoided as to not die). there was also a very large supply of alcohol on hand. between the excessive amount of beer, wine, homemade kahlua, soju and spiced rum we were set for the weekend. let the excessive amount of eating and drinking begin...
which is exactly what happened. we ate and ate and ate... or better yet we all ate and matthew ate and ate and ate. seriously he was like a human vacuum that was never ending. once the last of our group arrived from incheon we were all settled in for a night of crazyness. and since there was drinking, this of course led to absolute crazyness. this included a game of "I Never" and another drinking game. we also bought roman candles and had a roman candle fight out on the beach in the sprinkles. basically lighting and pointing fireworks at each other... awesome! afterwards some of us walked out (because the tide was low) and saw some of the bio-luminescent plankton that was in the water. after the last drinking game we called it a night around 3am or so.
we had two pension rooms and 11 people to fit between the two. we crammed 6 in one and 5 in the other. basically we all had to snuggle nice and close to fit in the room of 6. after getting situated and such and attempting to drown out the excessive snoring coming from john and laura, i was able to get to sleep. only to be rudely awaken after was felt like only an hour by a phone alarm. for a second i thought it was mine, but then i remembered my phone had died that night. which meant it was laura's. after everyone started getting pissed, i was able to turn it off.
later that morning when people started getting up we made breakfast burritos, thanks to dani. they were delicious. while we were cooking, the koreans that had been staying next door to us were trying to get their van out of the sand where they had parked it the night before. well that turned into a very entertaining thing to watch. every time they revved the engine and spun the tires, they sunk lower and lower into the sand. they finally asked some of the guys from our group to come and help them. if my phone wasn't dead, i would have taken pictures. the boys were out in the sprinkles, pushing and digging out the sand. after the driver of the van was making it worse, one of the boys got in and drove it out of the sand.
breakfast burritos were awesome. then it was time to head back to the ferry back to the mainland. overall it was an awesome weekend.
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