As I mentioned before, it was also Korean Independence Day, so there were a lot of Korean flags around.
James and I got our hair cut around 10 that morning. This was an interesting experience. Apparently my hair caused them a lot of stress because of all the curls. I guess they're not used to cutting curly hair or something. I don't know. I am happy with the hair cut though. No more hair falling in my face. James's hair also came out very well. They made fun of him for the way he dweebily keeps his hair, though.
Look at that nice haircut:
After the haircut, we ordered Mr. Pizza and had it delivered while Umma tried to pack up some stuff for their trip back home. The pizza eventually came. We also ordered kimchi spaghetti, kimchi risotto. I think James got spaghetti and meatballs because it's something you can't find at all in the States or something.
Mia and I let our food digest (while I did my homework). We went to swim after a while. Finally got to put those swim caps to use. Speaking of which, I was planning to put the swim cap to use now that we aren't going to be out all the time. I forgot that the pool is closed Tuesday and Wednesday. We have to pack our stuff on Thursday, so I don't think we can swim then. We leave on Friday. Sad face. We'll have to wear those swim caps on the plane or something.
Anyway, we left the apartment around 2:45 to go see a matinee of Nanta. The performance we got tickets to was in the Apgujeong area, so it was on the other side of the river. This area of Seoul is kind of like the super ritzy area. They've even got a Rodeo Drive where all the stars hang out. We spotted some woman in hot pants who a bunch of people were taking pictures of. We imagine that was a Korean celebrity of some sort. I don't know.
Because we got to the area with what we thought was time to spare, we decided to go to Burger King to get beansu for Halmony. It's pretty cool that Burger King has that stuff, but as you may imagine, it wasn't the best beansu out there. It was good though. We also had ice cream. We eat ice cream like all the time here in Korea.
Anyway, while we were at Burger King, we found out that we were actually no where near the Nanta Theater. After failing at catching a bus to the right area and struggling to find taxis that would take us there, we finally made it to the theater. There, we had to stand in an extremely long line to get the tickets. Surprisingly after all of that, we made it in the theater with quite some time to spare.
Nanta is a very fun show. Basically, if you combine Blue Man Group, Stomp, Samulnori and Iron Chef, you get this show. We saw this with our program two years ago. It was just as entertaining the second time around. I will admit that it wasn't the same without Andrew being used as a volunteer for the show, but it was still a lot of fun to watch and I think everyone enjoyed it. At some point in the show, they throw balls out into the audience. The balls are of the McDonalds Play place variety. Normal people either throw the balls back to the stage or they return it at the end of the show. Not our family. James went through the seats afterwards and collected any remaining balls that he saw. I think we might have enough at this point to start our own ball pit. If we do, we will send our thanks to Nanta for contributing to our endeavors. Seeing as I saw the one ball that I snuck back for James two years ago lying around the house doing nothing recently, I'm pretty sure I can think of no other use for them.
After the show, Umma had to rush off in a taxi to Namsan Tower. She was filming part of some limo documentary that's going to air on TV here on Friday after we all leave. Judging by her pictures, I think she had some interesting adventures that night.
Meanwhile, we took a taxi to the Bampo Bridge. This is a bridge along the Han River that has water shows several times a day. Water sprays out of the sides of the bridge and music plays. We got there thirty minutes before the scheduled performance, so we had to hang around for a while. It was pretty crowded and there were a lot of people watching Mamma Mia on a big outdoors movie screen (Umma would have been happy if she had been there).
The water show itself was pretty cool to see, but it lasted a bit long. I was kind of over it after five minutes. It was very pretty though. It's been super smoggy here in Seoul lately, so I imagine that it would have been prettier had there been less smog. Pollution = bad.
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We left before the show was over because everyone was kind of over it. We also needed to eat something. Apparently, the area that we were in wasn't a big area to go find a restaurant, but we did find some Korean restaurant somewhere. It was okay. I had bibimnengmyun, but I think I am getting nengmyun-ed out. Either that or I pulled a James and put way too much gochuchang in there.
More interesting, however, was our trip back. We decided to take a taxi back to DMC because it's easier for Halmony and Umma told us to (which is generally a trump card for anything). Normally, when we take a taxi back, we tell them that we want to go to Sangam High School because it's easier to find in a GPS and it's across the street from the apartment complex. We get into the taxi and ask the guy to take us there and he's like "yeah I have no idea where that is." So we try to read the address, but there really isn't much of an address on the business card that we have. Also, the little map that's drawn on our DMC Ville business cards were too small for him to see. He takes off anyway, and we head in the direction of World Cup Stadium. Now, at the time, we were wondering why it was that he had no idea where this place was, but wasn't using the GPS that he had in his taxi, but apparently that has something to do with the government making taxi drivers put GPS devices into their cars and not everyone wanting to use it. Whatever.
We make it to World Cup Stadium. There's a pretty big soccer game going on. We know this because Mia and I wanted to go see it. We also know it because it's crowded, the lights are on, and people are cheering. He gets us to the stadium from an angle that we had never seen before, so we weren't sure which direction he should have been going at that point. So, he starts asking people walking around the stadium where Sangam High School is.
This was problematic because 1) It was a big soccer game and 2) on Korea's Independence Day, so therefore, not everyone walking around the stadium was from that area. We finally found some older woman who pointed us in the right direction. At this point, he's lecturing us about a better POI we should be telling taxi drivers (even though this had not been a problem before). We eventually did make it back. It was an entertaining experience.
We weren't up much longer. I think I got the rest of my homework done and went to bed. Had an early wake up call and all.
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