:: Busan ::

Right now, I'm in Busan. It's about 5 hours from Seoul, on the southeastern part of the country. We're staying with my cousin and his family, and it's been pretty nice. I've been fairly impressed with the scenery, the technology and everything else around here. It's cleaner than Seoul, which is always a good thing. Yesterday we went out to see some historic stuff from the Shinli Dynesty. The coolest part of the whole trip was that my mom's cousin and his family came out, and his wife just so happens to be the person that translated the tour of the museum for President Bush while he was visiting Busan. So...we got a pretty detailed explanation of everything. One of the most interesting things that she pointed out was this thing...it was made of stone, and it was shaped like a...ya know...thingie. Anyways, she said that it represents fertility and all that, but some people think that it was for the queen because she got lonely from the king being away so much. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....sorry. So after she told us that, Gloria and I tried to play it off cool and said, "oh...okay." But after about 2 minutes, Gloria said very quietly, "I need to get a picture of that" and slowly slipped away from the group. Hehehehe...man, we're immature.

I think Busan's really the first place that I've really thought, "Hey...it's nice here, I'd like to stay for longer." According to my counsin, Japan is only 2.5 hours away by boat. !!! I'm definitely planning on coming back, and next time, I'm NOT coming with my parents. I'll bring Andrew...and Coco.