My Sunday night

Hello readers!
It is a little late here, but I must tell you a little about my weekend before I go to sleep!!

first a little story before I get to my day today:
One of my close friends from home Kylie, her university roommate moved to Korea, so I met up with her to give her a nice welcome! It was nice to meet someone that knew someone I knew from home! I have Heather here, but the more the merrier! We had a great time swapping Kylie stories!! Oh Ky, I miss you!!

Now for today:
I was feeling a little lazy today, but forced myself to do my grocery shopping, then once I was home I was not in the mood at all to cook, so went with my friend Steph to find a cheap place to eat. We decided on this little Japanese place and we would get a cheap 4000won meal. Well... we had to pass by the jet ski repair place on our way there. We said hi to the owner who is really friendly and always talks to me whenever I see him, and has become friends with my friend Steph. He asks where we are going, so we tell him to get a quick bite to eat. He says he is hungry too, so we invite him along. He told us that he was closing his shop in 10 minutes, so to just wait. We wait and end up going with him and his friend. They point to their car and ask us to get in... we laugh since the place is down the road, but get in anyways.
Once in the car, they ask us if we like Swellfish. We think they are saying Shellfish and Steph tries to explain her allergy, but they say no, not shell but swell. We decide to go and check out the menu at least. We drive to Haeundae... which is not far, but the car we are driving in a nice BMW with leather seats and a tv in the front haha. I felt high class! At the restaurant we find out what swellfish is... haha it is actually BLOWFISH! Me, not being much of a fish person feel a little nervous, but agree to try it anyways since I am in Korea, and may never get the chance to do it again. We have three courses along with all of the side dishes... the side dishes are pickles, pickled radish in red pepper paste sauce, some sort of fish thing, sesame seed leaves mixed with red pepper paste sauce and a few others that I can't remember. The first course is a delicious salad with of course shrimp, so we pick that out for Steph, but it also has nice greens (how I love and missed!), peppers, tomatoes and blowfish... oh gosh was it ever good! Then we had fried blowfish dipped in a sweet red pepper paste sauce, then swellfish soup. The soup was pretty good.. however as we were eating it, Steph looks more carefully inside and sees a fish head, and even an eye ball. I have a pretty weak tummy and have to turn away... the men we are with laugh, and he takes it out for her and puts it away. I look inside of mine... and yep... I also have a fish head. Mine was mostly bone, and no eyes... lets hope it wasn't floating in my soup anywhere... oh gosh. Well, mine gets taken out too!! Thank goodness! I continue to eat my dinner since it was good, and try to forget about the head.
Once we are finished, we get back into the beautiful silver BMW and start to drive. The shop owner Mr. Gong asks if we want coffee... it is already pretty late, so I say no since I want to be able to sleep tonight... and I am not a huge coffee person either... he wants some still and asks if that is ok, and we agree. He runs into the coffee shop and gets his drink for himself and his friend, but also comes out with a peice of cake for Steph, since he missed her birthday, and two little stuffed animals for us. haha how cute!
While he is in the store, we try to talk to his friend who knows next to no English and and ask him if we can drive across the bridge where our beach is... he says yes of course and even opens the sun roof! We end up not driving to the bridge, but to the Marnia instead. Mr. Gong asks us if we want to see his boat. So we go and see it. He points to this pathetic looking thing and says, here it is... then laughs and points to a beauty and says that is actually it. We get inside of this 200 thousand dollar boat and they begin to get it ready for driving the sea. We are driving around and see the really rich area of Busan at night. Like the Trump towers, and the hotel and spa for the the VIP gift card his friend gave us to try to sauna! Mr. Gong's friend's friend owns it and so we got a card!! :) Anywho... Mr. Gong stops the boat to show us the jumping fish, it looks so nice at night, and we turn around and head back to the Marnia. As we are heading back a song by Elliot Smith comes on the radio... and it just makes the whole experience so great... and then it gets better.

Mr. Gong asks us if we have driving licences. I said I have one to drive a car at home, but haven't driven in years. He says thats ok, and gets up and lets us drive the boat!!! Steph goes first and he teaches us all about driving boats. After she is done we are closer to the Marnia and he tells me it is my turn. Guess what. I drove this 200 thousand dollar beauty of a boat into the Marnia. Of course I didn't dock it, or drive it close to the other boats... but I drove it through the rocky entrace way from the sea to the Marnia. Yes... Sherry Wyse drove a boat! haha woo! The whole time I just thought.. man I wish I had a camera to show my Uncle Jim!