Daejeon

For the rest of our Korea trip we spent our time with Kelly-Anne bar the last night. We got to meet another of her co teachers who was getting married at the end of the month. We also went to Dr. fish again and to the batting cages. Even I had a go and hit the ball about three times but it was good fun, Brian was especially good the first time and hit the ball loads. The next time I think he went to a fast cage and still hit the ball a good few times but not as many. Seems like a very American activity but it seems very popular with Koreans as it was busy late into the night. Saturday was a bit of a disappointment as we got up at half 5 in the morning to go para gliding along with a friend of Kelly-Anne's(Bernard). After driving all the way up to a stop on the way up a local mountain we found out it was too windy to go. Then we had a fight with the owned about getting the money back as he said he was going to keep one third even though he had said to Kelly-Anne's co teacher that a refund would be no problem. Kelly-Anne's co teacher was great though and we eventually got all our money back. After heading home slightly disappointed we made ourselves a fry and cheered up. That day we chilled out while Brian napped and eventually moved up to the roof of Rachel's apartment to sunbath on a really beautiful day. That night was our last night with Kelly-Anne so we went out for dinner (we hadn't been having a whole lot of luck with dinners recently, we even went to the supermarket to get potatoes cheese and bacon and ended up cooking it and realising it was pork). We got some traditional Korean food. You get a pot of boiling water and oil and plates of raw veg, meat and noodles. There is a hob in the centre of the table for the water. You add the veg then eat it and the meat and then eat it and finally do the noodles. You are given dipping sauces and sides and such. The meal was amazing but would have been a lot better if the owner had rushed us the whole way through the meal. He was a bit of a pest. We left after and grabbed ice-cream before having a few drinks in Rachel's apartment. That night we went to a few bars, a Noribang and a nightclub. It was a really great night though the Noribang wasn't half as good as the first place we went. The facilities weren't as good and we were rushed out. Must have been something about that Saturday night as Kelly-Anne also seemed quite rushed. We also got to play fuzball in one of the bars. Next day we said our goodbyes. I'll really miss Kelly-Anne and I really hope her schedule all gets sorted out as it seemed to be getting a bit messed up as we were leaving. A wedding she had been told about and was going to turned out to be on a different weekend which she had planned on spending and a hiking trip, she still wanted to do the para gliding but she was finding it hard to get the guy to do it when she was free and her and Rachel had missed the deadline for a race they had wanted to enter into. We did find out that Cormac will be going over to visit her in June so she will have even more company. On our last night we moved to the lazy bird guest house by the airport because we thought our flight would be at 9 (turns out it was moved to 12). The guys at the guest house were lovely and gave us a lift to the airport and collected us from the train station. It was a nice and hassle free night and morning excluding the early wake up.