My training friend, Joe, is heading out this weekend. We have been here a year now and he is finished with his contract (I still have til the end of November). So after work on Saturday at 8:30pm, I ran down to the subway station, rode to the Daegu KTX (bullet train) station, met Emma there and managed to get tickets to Seoul. We arrived at 11:30pm and met up with Joe, Jojo and the others. Man we had fun, but it was needless to say, a late night.
On Sunday, we went and had some Mexican food for breakfast (when I am in Seoul, I need to fill my desire for restaurant mexican food because Daegu is lacking). Then we went to the country-famous 63 tower. They have a mall and an aquarium inside. Providing that this was the only functioning aquarium in the nation that Emma and I had not been to, it was imperative that we made the short journey there. We had a good time! They had a great penguin exhibit (they even had emperor penguins!). Then we spent the rest of the beautiful day at a park by the Han river. We eventually decided to check out the river boats that were running. The boat we were on took us around just before sunset for about an hour. It was (as mentioned before) a beautiful day, so this ride was excellent.
When evening came, Brent and I decided it would be a great idea to run to the top of the famous (small) mountain in Seoul: Namsan. We then noticed that Brent did not have good shoes for running, so we decided to run up the mountain barefoot. There are paths and stairs, so it was not an extreme move. After making it to the top passing many curious onlookers, we made it back down to the bottom. When we reached the bottom we attempted to find our shoes that we left under a bush, only to discover that they were not there. We heard a couple old ladies yelling at us, so we decided to yell back. I looked up the Korean word for shoe in my phone dictionary and started asking them to help find our shoes. They came up to us and pointed us in the direction of a bunch of sleeping bums. Brent jumped the fence and ran over to check out the bum situation and found our shoes next to a sleeping bum. Lucky us!
After making it back to Daegu catching up on sleep for a couple days, I have decided to give my body a break for two weeks. I am still going to continue my running training, but I will cut out beer until October 1st. Let the ole body breathe for a bit.
Thanks for checking in! Hope everyone out there is alright!
