The tour of the Korean countryside side Andong, as well as Gyeongju were a roaring success. We celebrated with a sea side raw fish dinner on the beach in Busan. Tomorrow we’ll go to the sea side fish market early in the morning, and then we’ll hop on a train for the ride back to Daejeon.
Busan is absolutely rocking tonight. The weather is perfect, and there is enough neon that you can see every one’s stylish clothes like it was noon. It was great to make a trip to the beach and deal with the barkers at the various restaurants. I performed a maneuver that would have made my wife proud. I got a lower price by setting different restaurant barkers against each other and threatening to leave when the restaurant we settled on tried to get us to pay a slightly higher price before serving the meal. I can only hope I didn’t get a meal injected with blow fish poison as a result of my ruthless dealing.
It was a rather nice meal, because for once I was entirely out of my depth as the tour guide. Since I have eaten raw fish on only one other occasion, I knew only slightly more about the procedure than my friends did. They felt better when they didn’t know any less than I did for one moment on the trip.
We spent the entire past two days sight seeing and moving around rural Korea and have a ton of pictures. I got to show off my Korean skills, and tried to show my friends a good time. At the moment, I’m at a nice, upscale hotel in a PC room they provide with a nice neon view of Busan. I had an absolute blast on the trip so far, and I’m resigned to the fact that my friends will be leaving so soon. They have one more day in Korea tomorrow, and I hope to show them interesting stuff up until when they leave.
