On the final leg of the race...

Hey Everyone!

A little less than 48 hours from now, we will be on the plane headed to the States! It's bittersweet, really. Korea has been amazing but we're dying to see the ones we love!

Since we're leaving on Thursday, we left Seoul today to come to Incheon - the city where the airport is located. It's on an island and we thought there'd be some interesting things to see. One attraction we both wanted to see was a memorial statue of General Douglas Macarthur at the place of the Incheon landing during the Korean War. He's a hero over here, let me tell you!

We weren't sure at all how to get there so I asked at the front desk and she didn't really help either. She gives me a bus number and a bus stop written in English and Korean. I'm thinking it's going to be so easy because we'll be able to see the English form on the bus stops as we come to them. We're thinking it will be about a ten minute bus ride. Well, the first two or three bus stops, we absolutely could not see the names of the stop. I'm like, oh crap, I have no idea what to do. Finally we come to a stop that has the bus route with the names but before we can get off, the driver pulls away. I think, no big deal, we'll just jump off at the next stop.

So we plug along and we are not coming to anymore bus stops. Then the driver looks to be merging onto the interstate. Oh wait, he is merging onto the interstate!!!! All we see are signs pointing to Seoul. The bus keeps going on and going on along the interstate and I can't even look at Tim. I can see him out of the corner of my eye, and he looked so annoyed! Even though we're not talking to each other, we both realize we might be on a bus all the way back to Seoul. The worse part is that we both always want to be right and I was going to be so upset if I had messed this one up because Tim's not allowed to be right!

Then comes a sign that shows Seoul is left and Incheon is right. I've never crossed my fingers so tight in my entire life! But the driver keeps flying through in the left lane! At the last possible moment he swerves into the right lane and takes the exit to Incheon. Turns out, we came to just the right stop!! Women are always right.



Tim:

This morning I took a scooter ride to the grocery store to pick up some eggs and bread to make some famous fried egg Gehring sandwhiches. I had just gotten to bottom of the hill and was stopped at a light and sort of in the middle of the crosswalk. I see this older woman to my right crossing the street, so naturally I back my scooter up to clear the crosswalk and allow her to pass. You know, trying to bring some Southern manners to South Korea. I thought she'd appreciate it, apparently she did not. She walked passed me with a radio up to her ear and then turns around and starts yelling at me in Korean. I've been yelled at by women before - even in different languages - but not for being polite. She even proceeds to slap my arm two or three times while continuing to expres her displeasure towards me. Honestly, I wasn't sure what to do, but I was pretty sure I was going to take more of that. There were other foreigners around, so I didn't want to yell back at her in English and lose all moral authority. She tried to hit me again, but I managed to push her arm away and say something to her Spanish that made me feel better, but didn't really offend anyone else. Now you can make the final judgement of that situation, but it would appear, at least to me, that women are not ALWAYS right.