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After sleeping in, we woke up to Wendy’s mom making a several course breakfast. She stuffed us and then we left to see some of Suwon, their hometown about an hour south of Seoul. The slogan for Suwon is “Happy Suwon” and it’s plastered everywhere. We started by taking a tour of an old emperor’s palace. When we were done there was a long martial arts show, and it was packed with school kids. It seemed like every one of them wanted to say hi and practice some English, because there aren’t too many Americans walking around Suwon. There’s three standard things to speak about: “Hi, my name is ___”, “What is your name?”, and “Where do you live?”

From there we went to a holistic doctor for Ramon. He determined that Ramon was way out of alignment and laid him on his stomach and kicked him in the ass four times really hard, then rolled him over and punched him in the knee a few times which was entertaining to watch. The on to a vegetarian buffet, which had been described as the best vegetarian in Korea. It was the perfect way to get a sense of Korean food because there were so many different dishes, and just about all of them are spicy and get me sweaty.

Then we jumped on a bus to Seoul to stay there for 3 days and kick start the shopping and the drinking. We found a dirty bar named Woodstock with a DJ that takes requests all night. Lots of Sabbath and then pitcher after pitcher came, and we ended up drinking with a Korean news broadcaster and his friends that got pretty rowdy. The bar food here was dried octopus that was really fishy tasting and not so good. Later in the night this really creepy dude looking like a mix between Edward Scissorhands and Jack Sparrow showed up by himself and creeped everyone out. His picture is in the slideshow above.