Our first weekend

We are still getting used to being up so late and just how our daily schedule goes, so sorry about not posting a blog sooner. The weekend for us was pretty neat. Saturday we went to Seoul to meet a group of teachers who went through ESL Park (the recruiting business). Our subway ride took about 1 1/2 hours. We had to transfer trains in Sadong, which was really packed, and we actually got mixed up. We thought we were going the right way, but we finally figured out that we had to be on the opposite side of the tracks. That was an ordeal trying to figure out how to get to the opposite side! It wasn't easy but we made it. When we made it to Jamsil station, the train was really, really packed. We had to push people out of the way so we could get off before the doors closed! We met the group at Lotte World. It's a very big mall that apparently has a theme park in it somewhere. We only went to the third floor to visit the folk museum. It's just a museum about the Korean history. Then we had dinner, which was really expensive for the amount of food. We had to leave dinner early because we had another 1 1/2 hour train ride back, and we wanted to make it home before the subway shut down for the night. We made it with about a half hour to spare. We almost got lost trying to walk home, but we eventually figured out where we were and which way to go to get home. It was after midnight before we headed into bed. Whew! Then Sunday we went to the Dong-Sang church which has an English service. There were actually more Koreans in the service than I had expected! The pastor is Korean, but speaks pretty good English. The church is sort of Presbyterian, and follows the Westminster catechisms. We will go again to form a better opinion. After church we wanted to go to Costco in Seoul. Jeremy had researched it online, and found that it would take 2 hours to get there by bus. We got on the bus really easy, and we just had to wait out the ride. I took some pictures along the way and hopefully I will actually get around to posting some for you to see. We finally made it to Costco, and it was pouring down rain with thunder and lightning. Of course, being foreigners, we didn't bring umbrellas because it was sunny when we went to church. We survived being a little wet. Costco in Korea is much like the ones in the states, but this had two floors. All the food was downstairs, so you put your cart on an escalator that was actually magnetized to keep the carts from rolling down. Pretty weird :) In Jeremy's words "it's different". There were so many people there, it was a mad house. Especially near the samples!! You'd think these people hadn't eaten in a month! They were taking 2,3,4 samples each! I just wanted to get out of there because it was so hard to maneuver. We finally made it out with just enough stuff to fit in one Costco reusable bag and a smaller tote bag. We couldn't get too much because we had to carry it home and it would take at least 2 hours to get home. Actually, we had to wait over an hour for the correct bus number to come. It was not fun. We crossed the street 4 times hoping that we would be on the correct side of the street for the next bus to take us home. Finally, a bus came and we went home. It was after 6 when we made it home. For the rest of the night laundry was done, the Wii was played, and a movie was watched. Around 11 or so we hit the hay. Hopefully our future weekends will be packed like this weekend :)