Second Week

Dennis and I are entering our second week here in Ulsan after a great weekend spent together. Friday night I educated Dennis on the ways of the bus here as we took the 1401 downtown go our for dinner and drinks. We ended up leaving late as D has been so excited about setting up all of our gadgets in the apartment. After stopping at the Hyundai department store for some cash (when you find an atm that works with your bank card you stick with it) we were on our way downtown. After sitting in traffic for what seemed like forever (I am not pleasant company when I am hungry), we made it downtown and to the sushi restaurant. Ulsan online has been a great resource for finding great restaurants and we had recently read an article about "Haru Sushi bar" and thought we better check it out. It lived up to the review as it was great, fresh and inexpensive sushi, but still it is no Hana (I know that will drive D nuts). The night ended with us getting drinks at the Miller time bar, and you guessed it they pretty much exclusively serve Miller. It is a strange place but I just had to check it out for myself.

Saturday we headed back downtown to go to the Ulsan Grand Park. This is an 83 acre park right in the city. There is plenty to do there like play mini golf, go horse back riding, ride bikes, and just walking around to name a few. We headed there as there was a foreigner flea market. There is an organization of teachers who create different events to raise money for the orphanages here. I bought a couple of books at the flea market and we headed out.

D was feeling a bit under the weather so we stayed close to home yesterday. We did our big grocery shop for the week and was so happy to find pretty much everything we needed. Although I couldn't find liquid vanilla so I found vanilla powder, I hope it does the same thing! We also stopped at "Foreigner Town" to see what they had to offer. They have mostly indian food items but they did have maple syrup which was very expensive but very worth it on our pancakes the following day!

I met up with the expat ladies for a quick hike up the mountain right by our apartment. What a great place to have so close to us! There are several different trails up the mountain and takes about 30 minutes to climb, that is if you are pushing it! I look forward to meeting up with the same ladies on Wednesday and Friday. Today was a big breakthrough in the meeting people department. I will attending pilates on Tuesday and Thursday and then there is a quiz night on Saturday at the club house bar! I have also heard of some crazy theme parties where everyone dresses up, and I just have to say that D and I will give them a run for their money as to costumes. I am going to go to the consignment store and start our tickle trunk soon! Most of the women will be leaving for the summer but will be back in September.

I will sign off for now and write soon. Thanks to all the new followers to the blog it is great to see you are reading the blog. Send us an update of what is going on in your lives too!! We both miss everyone lots!

-J