Virginia, Mom and Mokpo
On Friday, we were blessed with the presence of Virginia (from Suncheon) and her Mother (all the way from St Catherines!).
Virginia’s Mom had been on an amazingly jam-packed 2 week tour of Korea with Virginia, and they both came down to Mokpo to celebrate Virginia’s 23rd birthday (Happy Birthday Virginia!), to see the sights in Mokpo, and then to send Mom home to Canada on the KTX. Virginia is awesome... enough said. We met her in our orientation group with Canadian Connections, and went to Singapore and Malaysia with her. Good peoples!
The night started at “The Log House”, or Log-uh House-uh in Korean, for an all you can eat veggie buffet (does that mean I had all I could eat before I got there?) with Chad, Nicola, Maura and Max, and later by Steve O.
The log house is supposed to be a replication of a Canadian log house, but is decorated with miscellaneous metal jungle animals. We then headed to Mokpo's newest attraction; the Waterfall. This Waterfall cut out of one of the hills is the new gateway to the city as well as the doorman for a new set of nearly 50 condo buildings that are being built simultaneously! We even shot a movie of it... looks like Canada's Wonderland right beside a 8 lane throughfare. The night concluded with a walk through Peace Square, some drinks, a spell in the Norae Bang (Karaoke room), and Steve stumbling off into the sunrise to find a motel to sleep in.
Saturday we were treated to an amazing breakfast at Chads apartment by the harbour before we hiked Yudal mountain, walked through downtown Mokpo and enjoyed a drink with some good people. Before we knew it, it was late and the two girls had to be up at the crack of dawn to head back to Suncheon, for Virginia and to Seoul for Mom to head back to the snow in Southern Ontario! (I can't believe its snowing in Canada!)
Great weekend that reminded us of how great our friends are and how solid a city Mokpo is!
Check out the Waterfall movie and the Yudal movie as well as pictures at the right! Also, check out Virginia's blog just because it's cool.
Virginia’s Mom had been on an amazingly jam-packed 2 week tour of Korea with Virginia, and they both came down to Mokpo to celebrate Virginia’s 23rd birthday (Happy Birthday Virginia!), to see the sights in Mokpo, and then to send Mom home to Canada on the KTX. Virginia is awesome... enough said. We met her in our orientation group with Canadian Connections, and went to Singapore and Malaysia with her. Good peoples!The night started at “The Log House”, or Log-uh House-uh in Korean, for an all you can eat veggie buffet (does that mean I had all I could eat before I got there?) with Chad, Nicola, Maura and Max, and later by Steve O.
The log house is supposed to be a replication of a Canadian log house, but is decorated with miscellaneous metal jungle animals. We then headed to Mokpo's newest attraction; the Waterfall. This Waterfall cut out of one of the hills is the new gateway to the city as well as the doorman for a new set of nearly 50 condo buildings that are being built simultaneously! We even shot a movie of it... looks like Canada's Wonderland right beside a 8 lane throughfare. The night concluded with a walk through Peace Square, some drinks, a spell in the Norae Bang (Karaoke room), and Steve stumbling off into the sunrise to find a motel to sleep in.Saturday we were treated to an amazing breakfast at Chads apartment by the harbour before we hiked Yudal mountain, walked through downtown Mokpo and enjoyed a drink with some good people. Before we knew it, it was late and the two girls had to be up at the crack of dawn to head back to Suncheon, for Virginia and to Seoul for Mom to head back to the snow in Southern Ontario! (I can't believe its snowing in Canada!)
Great weekend that reminded us of how great our friends are and how solid a city Mokpo is!
Check out the Waterfall movie and the Yudal movie as well as pictures at the right! Also, check out Virginia's blog just because it's cool.
Labels: Mokpo, South Korea, Waterfall, Yudalsan
posted by Brent at 10:03 p.m.
6 Comments:
Brent, we missed you at Oktoberfest this weekend!
Kate
Kate! I need to see some pictures!!! I need to see the fun! Please!!!
Just wait until you see the video!
THANK YOU!
You guys are awesome.
xoxo
Virginia
Hi Its V's MOM thank you so much for making my final days in Korea as eventful as the first days were - I didn't expect to find even more fun & interesting things to do but was pleasantly surprised to see more things in your area of Mokpo, the waterfall, the lit up shopping area, Yudal Mtn & Chad's view from his apartment.
Thanks for giving up your bed so that I could rest my weary bones after all the walking & night life. Brent thanks too for recommending that 300 mi per hour train to Seoul- once again- another memorable thing that I did in Korea and what a way to end the final day. And I'm glad you told me where to find the yellow door - know one else knew.
Stephanie, stay sweet. Glad that I finally met both of you after reading your blog from day one.
thanks a million for everything
Virginia's Mom, Virginia
It was our pleasure, Mom! You are amazing... Hope the bed wasn't too hard (I know it was!) and that you had a great time!
We will definitely take you up on that offer of a bike ride down the Welland Canal!
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