a little late, but.....

Valentine’s Day is a little different in Korea: the girls are responsible with showering the boys with chocolates and flowers. It’s true. We saw many couples walking around hand in hand with the boys carrying gifts and flowers that they had just received.

I guess our Valentine’s Day was not traditional on Korean standards (or on American standards, really). It was great though. We practiced our new Hapkido moves on each other (more details about our Hapkido lessons in another blog). Then we headed to the Daegu Tourist Information Center and gathered all kinds of fun information about different tours we can take around the city and vicinity. We tried signing up for Kite Building Class, but the woman and the help desk said she didn’t think it was for us (not sure why). Plus, it was getting very cold, so kite flying probably wouldn’t have been that enjoyable. Maybe we’ll try taking the class in the spring. After we walked around the DTIC for a while, we decided to head downtown to grab a bite to eat. We had a restaurant in mind that we were interested in testing, but we hadn’t the slightest clue where it was. Since there are no street names in Korea, asking someone how to get there wasn’t too advantageous either. We knew it was a 20 second walk from The Holy Grill, and that was all. So we walked around the maze of downtown for a while, finally stopping a group of foreigners to ask them if they knew where The Holy Grill was (it’s a popular restaurant for foreigners because they serve food from back home, whether that be Canada or America). They did, but they weren’t able to tell us exactly because of the lack of street signs; however, they were able to point us in the right direction which was amazing…go straight and take a right. We finally stumbled upon it after going straight and taking every right before the right right. The Italian was delicious. We had pasta with crab, pizza, and a bottle of wine. After dinner, we were pretty full, a little tipsy, and very contempt. We decided to catch the bus home. The bus rides always make us a little drowsy, but on this night, with a little wine in our bellies, the ride knocked us out. We awoke 30 minutes later to the bus diver yelling something to us (we were the only ones left on the bus), so we got off the bus to realize we were at the end of the line. The bus went to park, and we had gone 2 stops past our own. It wasn’t too far of a walk though. When we got home we watched The Royal Tenenbaums.

Then last week we were able to celebrate Valentine’s Day again because we got so many cards in the mail!

That was it, and it was great.