Dinner and a movie

It was such a long week. Everyone around me has said the same thing. I think this is probably due to the fact that we are anticipating our time off of school and anxious for all the festivities surrounding Christmas to begin. We took it easy this weekend because we had so much to do this past week. We had to be up early almost every morning which really hurt due to the extreme changes our sleeping patterns have undergone.

On Saturday night we tried out a new restaurant called Ashley. It was a grill and buffet, and this was the first place we've been in Korea that kinda had a Southern feel to it. We saw the place last week but were not hungry at the time. After we passed it up, we kept thinking about it over and over. All week long we talked about the unlimited supply of cheesecake on the dessert buffet that we couldn't help but notice. So, it wasn't even a question as to what we would do on Saturday. We made our way to the "old downtown" region in Ulsan, and we went straight to Ashley!!! Chris's first plate consisted of fried potato wedges, sweet potato casserole, fried rice and 3 pieces of cheesecake. Can we say carb overload? I couldn't help but crack up when I watched him take his first bite...cheesecake. We are definitely adding to the world's view of all Americans being over indulgent people as we binge every time we see anything that looks like good ole American food.

After filling up, we made our way to the Mega Box movie theatre, where we watched Yes Man, with Jim Carey. We thought it was really cute, and it was a nice escape from all things Korean, except there was a Korean girl in the movie and a few lines of Korean as well...we had no clue. This was the only humor in the movie that the Koreans actually understood. Obviously we appreciated the cultural humor much more because of our given situation. For about an hour and a half I actually forgot where I was...it was kinda nice :)

All in all we had a great weekend. We're really anxious for this week to begin and all the Christmas activities and breaks to begin!!!