Riviera Hotel Busan

... ago.<br><br>Please bear with us regarding photos. We have to upload from an internet café and we did not find one yesterday. The ship's system is just too slow.<br><br>We have not participated in many of the ship&#8217;s activities lately since they are repeats. Mainly, we are going to briefings on port information. We have to be very aware of places with a lot of walking or stairs. We have ...

... the second piece he ate suctioned onto the back of his tongue! i tried it so i could say that i had, but i made sure it was done moving. had we not been warned by anthony bourdain about this korean specialty, i don't think it would've been so cool. i posted some pics so be sure to check them out.<br><br>the second best thing about this trip was our geisha sighting. read juicy girls vs. geishas to find out all about it. .

... next weekend. I have a five day weekend because of Children's Day (all the kids in Korea get a day off school. Pretty sweet huh??). I had thought about going to Shanghai then, but my friend who lives there wasn't sure if she was going to be in town--so I nixed those plans. Meanwhile, my boyfriend and some other friends tried to plan a group trip to Jeju Island (just off the coast of Korea). I'd been there before, but it's ...

... m hesit*nt to *sk Kolin if he w*nts to t*g *long this weekend bec*use he JUST got in. But I extend the invit*tion *nyw*y. T*lk it up nice *nd good. He s*ys yes. Gre*t! A p*rtner in crime. I tell him we need to get home *nd p*ck our b*gs so th*t we c*n jump up *nd go e*rly. We get in *round 3 *m, *nyw*y. Ugh. S******y morning, 7 M*rch 2009 I w*ke up in my hotel on the b*se with * nudge of my roomm*te *nd re*lize he's holding the phone. It's Kolin ...

... rolling. ....and that probably makes me a huge dork.<br><br><br><br>I have a few missions this year:<br><br>1) Save money. Like, really save. I need to come home with something. :)<br><br>2) See more of Korea. I want to go to more festivals, and deepen my understanding of the culture. It's so cheap to travel and stay anywhere here. Last year, I got lazy, and I feel like I missed out.<br><br>3) Travel more in general!!! I want to see more of Aisa while ...

... to head to Haeundae beach to spend the day. There we sat and enhanced our sunburns and swam in the ocean. The water was cold but once in it for a few minutes it wasn't that bad. At 3pm we cabbed to the train station and as I now sit and look out the window of the train I will reflect on Matt's unfortunate event that was both ****** and unnerving. Matt's apt. was broken into last week. He lives on the second floor of our building. As he slept in ...

... no hassle at all , the usual forms to fill out and they didn't even ask one question. They welcomed us with open arms! O! was a morning! In Busan anyway we managed to find our way from the port to the train station ok and got our 6 hour train to Seoul. As we noticed on the trains, Korea is a very mountainous country, they were all around us, pity we won't spend more time here to do some hiking, another time maybe. Alos, we ...

... too much detail about our time in Busan because I have, after all, been there a few times before and have already documented two of my previous trips (in January 2003 and July 2004). Plus, there really wasn't much too report this time around, especially the 3 days/nights (days 101 to 103) we spent here after coming back from Japan. They were 3 totally self sufficient nights we p**********d up in a Korean ...

... a former Confucian school house and the Kim's had clearly paid every attention to detail - the paper that covered our room was hand made for example. No, there was no denying the beauty of the place. It was just so.......weird. We felt the need to talk in whispers, worried about our shoes (should we take them off? keep them on?)and generally fretted about insulting someone by accident. It was just that kind of place. But nothing could have prepared us for the dinner ...