They always seem like a great idea, until you arrive & have to push through crowds of Koreans to even walk around the area. Dealing with so many crowds all the time is definitely not helping my claustrophobia. In fact a couple weeks ago I had a full blown panic attack while squeezed onto a train from Daegu to Gumi. That was the longest 30 minute train ride of my life. I had a standing room only ticket...and there was hardly room to stand.
Anyways, back to the festival. Our friend Cindy lives in Jinju so we were happy to have a place to crash for the weekend. Friday night I stayed at Kristin's in Daegu & we left early to take the bus to Jinju Saturday morning. During the day we didn't do much except eat lunch (we had dakgalbi...a spicy chicken korean dish...one of the few that I love) and then we went to check out the festival during the day.
After playing around for the day, we headed back to Cindy's to relax & get ready for the night. When we made it back to festival the view was beautiful! They had giant lanterns lit-up floating on top of the river water. There was bridge you could walk across to take better pictures of the lanterns, but it cost money and the line was super long. So instead we took some pics then headed to the top of the street bridge to watch the fireworks. Korea also loves their fireworks!
Next we headed to the area of tents again, took some pics of the lantern tunnel, & walked through the "love jungle" which was a walkway through some bamboo with lanterns. The lanterns were of random bugs and animals "in love" so to speak. The pictures below may show what kind of love they were in, haha!
After we got tired of pushing through all of the people at the festival we decided to head to a bar in the area. By this point most of us were tired so we didn't stay too long. But, right before we left the bartender decided to do a fire show for us. He was pretty impressive & ended his show by saying the girl who does the best dance gets the shot he lit on fire. Well we chose CIndy to dance and she had to battle against a Korean girl. The jealous look on the other girl's face was priceless when she saw that Cindy could dance.
So, we eventually made it back to Cindy's place & passed out. Apparently Maggie woke up early and snapped a pic of us. We look so peaceful! :)
On Sunday morning we decided to head back to Daegu early for some Sunday Funday! Our first event was ice skating at the Woobang Tower in Daegu. It's beside the Woobang amusement park. Speaking of which, I've yet to experience an amusement park here. Might have to check one out sometime soon. I was hoping my school might go to one for a field trip, or maybe they have already and didn't invite me, lol. Ice skating turned out to be a blast! We got the "waygook" discount so it was only 4,000W, we got 50% off. Gotta love getting a discount just for being a foreigner!
The rest of the day was also awesome because we met up with Whitney, who's parents were in town visiting. It was actually their last day here, so we met up with them at Traveler's where they were watching rugby.
We joined in watching rugby because considering that was the main reason everyone was in there, we had no choice, lol. Best thing about Traveler's is their food. Any chance I can get western food, I take! So after a few drinks, and a few hours later, we decided to go find some dinner. We ended up at Caliente, one of the mexican restaurants in the downtown area. So, of course I was down for more western food! Whitney's parents were so sweet & paid for everyone's meal. It was good to hang out with them, they were like our own mother & father for the day! I couldn't imagine my parents coming to Korea...that would be hilarious if they did though!
That about sums up my Jinju/Daegu weekend! I wish all of my Sundays were like that one! Although I was a bit tired Monday morning, it was worth it! Speaking of, I am headed to bed for the night. Will write about the Asia song festival soon.
XOXO,
Amanda
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