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.
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