Thursday was a holiday, so Rie and I headed out of town for some fun.
We took the bullet train to Daegu - about 100 miles away. They have a very nice bullet train, but they have not finished building the bullet tracks. That means that we take normal tracks and the ride should take one hour. But, to make our first Korean inter-city train ride more interesting, the train broke down in the middle and we had to wait an hour for another train. We were headed to Daegu to have dinner with some co-workers and the big boss. I wanted to call ahead and say we would be late, but we won't get our cell phones until Monday. I knew a few other people were riding up to Daegu, so I just walked through the train until I heard one of my co-workers on the phone to my supervisor saying we would be late.
Eventually, the four of us made it to Daegu and ate way too much good southern-style Thanksgiving fixings.
From dinner, Rie and I went to the main train station and found a nice love hotel. It cost about $22 and was nothing special as a love hotel, but it was a perfectly reasonable regular hotel room. Then we called Rie's friend, Kyung. Kyung lived in Newport News last year and moved back to her hometown of Daegu last summer.
We took the bullet train to Daegu - about 100 miles away. They have a very nice bullet train, but they have not finished building the bullet tracks. That means that we take normal tracks and the ride should take one hour. But, to make our first Korean inter-city train ride more interesting, the train broke down in the middle and we had to wait an hour for another train. We were headed to Daegu to have dinner with some co-workers and the big boss. I wanted to call ahead and say we would be late, but we won't get our cell phones until Monday. I knew a few other people were riding up to Daegu, so I just walked through the train until I heard one of my co-workers on the phone to my supervisor saying we would be late.
Eventually, the four of us made it to Daegu and ate way too much good southern-style Thanksgiving fixings.
From dinner, Rie and I went to the main train station and found a nice love hotel. It cost about $22 and was nothing special as a love hotel, but it was a perfectly reasonable regular hotel room. Then we called Rie's friend, Kyung. Kyung lived in Newport News last year and moved back to her hometown of Daegu last summer.
Kyung picked us up at the nearby Louis Vuiton store and took us to a Japanese restaurant. We ate some great food with her family. Her husband is a neuro-surgeon and his friend owned the restaurant. The sushi chef brought the head of a tuna fish to our table and sliced off some choice cuts of cheek for us. Then he popped out the big eye and gave us some of the tasty middle-of-the-head meat. We went back to the hotel, and thanks to the black-out windows, slept great all night with our big bellies from the two wonderful meals.
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