Tiffany & Bryan

While walking to the air port bus stop, it began to pour with snow. I never saw the point of umbrellas in the snow until I was walking in a snowstorm. By the time I got to the bus spot, I was drenched by the flakes. But I made it and was soon on my way to pick up Tiffany and Bryan.

They were exhausted after their 24 hours of traveling so we hopped onto a bus followed by a taxi and were soon at my house. Three hours of talking and laughing later, we were fast asleep.

 Friday night I took them to see the Seoul Tower - it’s the highest point you can get to in Seoul. Kinda of like the Effiel tower except not as tall. It overlooks the city of Seoul and was rather spectacular if I do say so myself. Tiffany and I bought a Love Tile that will forever stay in the tower.

    Saturday was the day of skiing. Bryan wasn’t digging the whole idea of standing on sticks and sliding down an icy mountain so Jacob and he had a guys day while Tiffany and I ventured forth to parts unknown. Skiing was an adventure. First we had to learn to ski then we had to attempt said skiing. We went down the bunny hill a few times and met up with two other people who weren’t great skiers either - at least, one wasn’t a great skier the other said he wasn’t great compared to his friends (who are awesome skiers). I got it in my mind that going down a bigger hill would be easy so up we went while the even intelligent Tiffany stayed behind. An hour, several face plants, a bruised butt, and snow in places I didn’t think it could get with three layers of clothing on - I was at the bottom of the hill. It was insanity. 

After my attempt at a bigger hill (it was debatable on whether it was the biggest or second biggest), we decided to settle down in the cafeteria and have some Soju. Two hours later, we continued the party on the bus to Itaewon where we continued the party in my new favorite bar - Grand Ol’ Oprey. It was in this establishment that the Star Spangled Banner began to play and time froze. Everyone stopped drinking, talking, and dancing - stood up with their hats off and hands to their hearts and sang along until the very end. It was very patriotic. Koreans and Americans together, belting out the lyrics to a song that some of us had heard all our lives. 

 After the song, we met up with a military guy by the name of Patrick who, by description, had a job very similar to Richard's job. We spent the remainder of the night together, swapped numbers with promises of meeting up some time in the future. I don't know how to night ended with him but I know that I ended up in Mr. Kebabs talking to a very strange guy about my love for spicy kebabs. I also know that I had two kebabs in my hand and, upon returning from getting more spicy sauce, one of my kebabs was missing - JACOB. 

A short few hours of sleep later and we were back on the road to explore more of Korea before Tiffany and Bryan had to leave. We walked around Seoul, looking at the palace and city hall and the war museum. The war museum was magnificent. So many massive monuments and left over vehicles. It really was worth going to. Next time, I'd like to go inside as we just walked around the outside. We also showed them where the President lives and took pictures in the correct spot (as you can't take pictures anywhere else but on one particular spot). 











Their last day was spent finding a particular building within Seoul to get their Japan Rail Passes. I used my Korean reading/speaking abilities and was able to get them there! Whoo hoo for me! After taking them all the way to the airport, we said our goodbyes and they were on their way to Japan. Thanks for coming guys! Hope you had fun!