Choo-seok Trip Part IV: JeonJu Ho!

Up at 6AM, get some food, get in the car to get to the bus terminal to get a but to Daejeon then another one to Jeonju. But first, a pic of Rodgers doing his impersonation of Urkel.


Urkel got nothin' on me!

On the way to the terminal I was feeling a little giddy and came up with a parody of "Yeah" by Usher:

Yeah Yeah
Wendy is behind the wheel, in her Matiz
You know what I mean.
Ya, Rodgers riding shotgun, got his pants hiked up just like Urkel,
But it's all a joke.

You know the bags won't fit in the trunk, it's too small
So we got them in the backseat, and they're real tight
Don't need no airbags.

We said oh no! there she goes! Running the red light.
She said hey man, that's ok! I had my flashers on!
We said oh no! she's a local! what we gonna do?!
She said shut up back there, we're all ok, I'm a better driver than you!

And we said Yeah! Yeah!

Ok, it's not poetry....and I forgot most of it before I got to a PC, but I think you can figure out that our little group was having a fair bit of fun.

Here's a shot of Phyllis and Rodgers on the bus...what?!?! He's sleeping again?


Yo Phyllis!

We were met at the station by 원희/Won-Hee. She's one of Wendy's friends from when she worked here last year. Her name means: perfect woman in Korean...and she does her best to live up to it. Her parents have a couple of restaurants outside of town and we went there for dinner. Unfortunately none of the pics I took came out...maybe it's time to get a new camera.


Our host in JeonJu: Won-Hee (with the double peace with cell phone sign).

Here's us packed in her friend's van. He taxied us all over the place, what a guy! Thanks Mr. Kim Gyu-Tae!


No posing allowed in this shot.

Near the restaurant, waaay out in the country they had these scarecrows by the side of the road. Why they weren't in the field I'll never know. They also had rubber gloves filled with water suspended over the doorways in an effort to scare mosquitos and flies away from the rooms...as if a fly would recognize the shape of a hand as a threat. Odd place sometimes.


Scary Scarecrows

We also hit a teahouse that our 'driver', who is actually an architect, designed. He also did many buildings in JeonJu and Seoul. Quite an accomplished and nice guy.


In Da (Tea) House. We gonna sip tea like it's yer birthday.

Then it was out to the bar. Wa-Bar to be exact. We met up with a few more people: Sonya, Mi-sook, Dong-Hwa, Ji-Eun/Jenny and proceeded to chit chat over the trough of beer lodged in ice before us. The Wa-Bar there has a cool promotion. If you collect 70 bottlecaps you get VIP status and then get free nachos for life (or until they go bankrupt); cool deal.


Wendy and Dong Hwa (notice the peace sign).

Dong Hwa was probably the first person Wendy met in Korea, and he introduced her to Won Hee. In Korea you'd call him a 'key man' as he introduces good people to you. I hope he comes up to Seoul soon...he's pretty cool.


Rodgers and his new admirer Mi-Sook.

Mi-Sook...say the name...then think of Austin Powers (the Japanese twins Fook-yoo and Fook-mi)...ok, she's not at all like that...just a little fun. Her English was strikingly good. Incredible use and understanding of slang and normal speech too. Watch out Rodgers!

We got in early (about midnight). Won-Hee cranked the floor heating up to about 12 out of 10, though, and we were was almost fried alive. It was just insane. It reminded of when I went to Pusan and my wife's grandfather set the floor to saute (in order to show off his affluence and cooking skills) and the freezing wind from the porous windows left us with 2 choices: be scalding hot or ice cold.

Ok, enough of that...we lived through it. Here's a pic of Phyllis being a little playful in the kitchen...with a knife. Yikes!


Phyllis protecting her melon.