Thursday and Friday of our vacation were relaxing and amazing days. We spent them with Matt and Amber playing board games, eating, and going to nore-bang. Thursday night I had a little bit to drink and so Nore-bang was especially fun - wink, wink! I sang bed of roses like a real rock star. It sounded terrible I'm sure but I really belted it out and Matt, Amber and Curtis couldn't stop laughing. As per usual, when you're drunk and people are laughing at you, you do it more and bigger... so they laughed more and more. Good times.
Saturday we went to Erin's house at noon for a traditional Korean meal. We were a bit nervous because we weren't sure how much English her family spoke and we also weren't sure about what kind of food they would serve. We took the bus most of the way and were picked up by her dad and herself. We met them at a very large gate. It turned out to be the entrance of the state university. It didn't have doors but was more like a archway. It was made of marble with white stone carvings on both sides and on top. I'll post a photo when I get my pics developed. I'm starting to think that a digital camera would suit my needs a bit better.... hmmmm......
Erin's family was so great! They spoke quite bit of English and were so hospitable. They also invited another Korean-Canadian family for super so we had lots of people to talk to and lots of questions to ask! The food was amazing! The main course for the New Years meal is a soup called Duk-gook. It's a hearty broth with rice cake in it. Rice cake is not the little crispy cracker things we have. It's the result of rice under pressure - you know - hitting it with a huge heavy mallet over and over again. It becomes very dense and starchy - think of wheat pasta but instead of thin strings - lumps. It's quite chewy too, but I really like it. It's so different from anything I've ever eaten.
Besides Dok-gook there are a few different salads. One is iceberg lettuce with a creamy white dressing. Curtis and I love that one! One salad has clear noodles in it that are cold. The noodles are long and thin like spaghetti. There is sesame oil and spinach in it too. One other dish was these little cold pumpkin pancakes. You wrap fresh veggies in them and pop them in your mouth - delicious! Curtis' favorite were these little pork patties that were fried with an egg batter. They also had mushroom and fish ones. Needless to say we were fed like royalty.
After the meal, I helped Erin fold some of her wedding invitations. We got through 200 and then decided it was time to take a break. She's been pretty stressed out lately with all of the wedding plans so I wanted to help in any way I could. We took Erin's puppy, Money, for a walk. It was the cutest little dog I had ever seen. It was a Yorkshire terrier but not with wiry hair. They had a little dress on her. She had such huge eyes and they got bigger when you patted her under the chin.
We got back home at about 5 pm and relaxed around home for the rest of the night. We wanted to talk to some people back home so we decided to go to bed early and get up early on Sunday. We ended up only sleeping for 3 hrs and then after a couple hours of restlessness, got up and decided to see who was online. We had an early morning nap from 9:00 am to 12:00 and got up to a fairly normal day.
Jinny invited us to go out for supper with herself and her husband, Sup. We had tried to make plans at other times, but it didn't end up, so it was great to finally meet him. He's a really nice guy and we had a great time chatting through dinner. After dinner they wanted to show us a really neat area with shops and cafes all around a lake that was fairly close. We got there and couldn't really see the lake because it was dark, but the area looked really neat. The coffee shop had a really casual, rustic feeling. They served our tea in really nice pottery mugs. It was great.
Once again the evening finished with a round of Nore-bang. Geez... we're getting pretty predictable! Jinny has an amazing voice though so it was a treat to hear her sing some Korean songs for us. She also sang the song from the Mulan soundtrack "Reflection". I think it was sung by Christina Aguilera.
Monday rolled around and it seemed as if it was a regular weekend! Back to book reports, question words, and reading! Yay!
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