Australian Beef

Last weekend we decided to buy a mattress pad to help with the hard bed. You see our backs were not liking the "sleeping on a board" mattress. After explaining to our co-workers what we wanted they told us to check out a department store called Lotte (like the drink but with an o not an a.) This turned out to be an exciting trip, our first bus ride. The bus ride there was really cool; seeing new parts of Ulsan is always great. The bus dropped us off in front of the Lotte store. After walking around the eight floor building for a while we found the bedding section. The ladies were quite nice about the fact that we couldn't understand them and they us. We finally found a lady who was standing across the way that could make out what we were trying to get. Unfortunately the pad she had was the cheapest there... a mere $180 US. We told her that we would have to think about it and made our way out. Next to the Lotte store there is an Outback Steak House and a Bennigans Restaurant. Perfect, I know right? ... Wrong. At Outback we missed the lunch special and the smallest steak was $30 (mind you this steak would cost $10 stateside.) So we went to Bennigans where their cheapest lunch special was $25 US. So needless to say that was a bit much for us at the moment. While wandering on that side of the street we find a bedding and curtain store. Guess what... Oh yeah we get a giant mattress pad for$18. So we're walking around with that as well as the groceries we bought at Lotte. So that was our Lotte Dept. store story and we're sticking to it.

Now for the fun part of the trip:

After our trip to Lotte we were quite hungry. Not wanting to pay up the nose for food, but wanting a little something from home, we track down a McDonalds. Now all our American readers and most of our international readers can attest to the fact that McDonalds is an American company right? I do not eat fast food very often. When I do, I try not to eat McDonalds. So I find very humorous the fact that I have to come to South Korea to get a good hamburger from McDonalds...? Must be the Australian beef they use! As my kids say "Oh no crazy cow!!!"

The bus trip home was a trip in and of itself. Now the bus is packed with people and we have the gigantic foam bed pad. Yeah, not as much fun as you might imagine! After many stares and being pushed towards the back of the bus, a nice young lady offered the space in front of her feet for the pad. Finally some kindness on the bus. Once she had gotten off we finally had a seat. The rest of the ride home was pleasant and beautiful.

More from the front as it happens... because we both know how much you want to read more.

On a side note, we had some spicy food last night at "Red Station" otherwise known as Bulldogs. Who knew you were suppose to eat chicken wings with gloves?