Leaving Seoul

Unfortunately, my last weekend in Seoul was pretty lame. Friday night we had some friends over for a cozy dinner of pizza and homemade jalapeno poppers (Korean peppers, cream cheese, bacon, yum). Sadly, I didn't feel too well. I attributed the upset of my tummy to the half cup of sour cream I had just eaten with tortilla chips. Because I hadn't had much food all day, I went for some pizza anyway, only to upchuck it half an hour later.

Whatever. I felt better. Only problem is, I went on to vomit for the next seven hours. The reason we had a tame night in was because I had to work on Saturday. So I didn't get to sleep until about 5:30am (except for the five-minute cat naps where I dreamt I was vomiting, then would wake up and--you guessed it--vomit).

As I was finally getting longer doses of sleep, Hannah began vomiting. (!) I worked Saturday in my half-alive state. Hannah was still sick until noon or so. I went home and napped and regrouped in order to meet Jiyeon for dinner and goodbye. I also saw Lauren on the street for a hug-and-bye session.

Ah yes, then Hannah and I had to be out of our apartment by noon on Sunday. After many interruptions from our landlord, our school's maintenance guy, and ajumas vying for our belongings, we made it out by 1:00pm with a taxi full to the brim (so full Hannah had to take the subway) to go to Denise's place to deposit some of our life into her closets.

We reloaded another cab to Sonja and Kelly's where we were hosted in their new apt for a couple nights before heading out. Thanks to everyone for the help!!!

We took the subway and a cab to the ferry terminal in Incheon and boarded our amazing business class, 4-person room, which we had to OURSELVES! It was a lovely, 17 hour journey. BUT: instead of leaving at 5:30pm and serving dinner and having services on board, the ferry company thought it would be awesome to leave at 9:30pm and not arrive until 2:30pm the next day. NO foot massages were had; no food was available on board, besides at the GS25 mart, which was wiped out by the time we roamed over there.

But, we had a room to ourselves! A very toasty room, where the windows don't exactly open. All in all, a fine journey across the sea.