A 60th birthday
SOUTH KOREA | Friday, 10 October 2008 | Views [1377]
Ann & Kels at dinner
YIKES!!! Difficult for me to believe!!!
A sunny day - started out with croissants (nice treat) from Kels, coffee, & yogurt – while talking with Chuck via Skype. We were running late, so we took a taxi instead of the city bus to her middle school where we had only 3 classes, but 2 of them sang Happy Birthday – caught one group on video! THEY are so cute!!!
Classes went well – there were a lot of “Ahhhhhhs” when they asked how old I was – maybe a good thing as older people either get quite a bit more respect or some of the older women I have heard, just take their respect…cutting in line at banks or waiting for the taxi! In Korean age, I would be 62 – so guess I like American age better! I also received a box of chocolates from one of the teachers whose husband owns the “Chocolate House – beautifully individual designed chocolates.
After walking around the students’ art displays, watching a bit of their gym class exercises, & helping a student prepare for an English speaking contest, I walked to the Oriental Medicine clinic for another “treatment.” This time I declined their glass cupping, so they hooked me up to a gentler ‘rubber’ cupping that massages. Nice & relaxing…then on to acupuncture…also relaxing.
I was kind of late getting out of there…got picked up by Kels & one of her Korean teacher friends who took us a couple miles south to a beach & close to the restaurant. What a beautiful evening – walking by the squid fisherman organizing their nets & listening to the waves.
Kels & I walked up to the 5-star Hotel Maremons (http://www.asiarooms.com/south_korea/sokcho/hotel_maremons.html) where we had a special Italian buffet. It was on the top floor- Sky lounge - private areas with leather chairs & a couch overlooking the ocean – sooooo NICE!!! There were wonderful salads, many hot entrees with a variety of fish, salmon, pasta, cream & veg sauces, & delicious cr of mushroom soup! The dessert buffet was good too – some things I had never seen – fruit with spines…fun to try everything! Also, Chuck had secretly packed away cards & gifts – THANKS! And Bobbie had sent pictures, gifts & many, many cards – the ‘perfect’ one was in there - the Obama card! Thanks Bobbie! Nice touch! ☺ Nice to get birthday e-mail cards as well – thanks to you all!!
After dinner, we went to Expo park - walked around listening to a music concert, watched families & kids playing in a water ride, & checked out the stalls of food, products, & art. A taste of a slightly sweet raspberry wine (gift from Kelsey’s elementary co-teacher) before bed ended a perfect day!
