Doubler

So....I am stateside.

This does not mean I am going to stop posting things about Korea though.
I have alot of adventures that I have not posted yet, that NEED, thats right need to be told.
Plus, I know I am going to have some EPIC adventures in Nebraska!

So no worries you lucky 8, there is more in store for you!

Yeeeeeeeehaw!!

I Am BACK. . .in the midwest. (for now)

(and for everyone that knows me and my time in Korea...you know how I appreciate the military. The End.)

I left Seoul, Korea at 11am on November 1st and arrived in Omaha, Nebraska at 5:15pm on November 1st.  Cool, right?

The parental units and I decided that I seriously needed some steak. Yum!  So we headed downtown to the Texas RoadHouse.

(Mmmm...Amurican!!..yeah wikipedia that!)

The epic moment of the evening?  The waitress coming over and announcing to the restaurant, "Amber here is celebrating her birthday!!!! YAY!  Amber come climb on the saddle here and grab your napkin.  Now whip that napkin up above your head like a lasso....go ahead whip it around above your head!"

Let's take into consideration the state of my condition. . .I've been flying for about 15 hours and this does not include the layovers. I'm jetlagged.  And I just finished a HUGE steak.  I was exhausted, but I played along because really, I felt that it was better to embarrass myself instead of the waitress. 
I was puzzling over why she thought we were celebrating my birthday. All I could come up with in my jet lagged haze was that she had overhead my dad say, "Order whatever you want, it's your special day....back in America!" 

(See...super excited about it)

So the day after Texas Roadhouse night I am telling a friend about it over the phone, retelling the riding of the saddle story.  My dad happens to pass me in the hallway, "Oh, your mother told them it was your birthday."    . . .oh right . . .it would make sense that the waitress would think it was my birthday if someone told her that.

P.S. I love my mom

Birthday Pumpkin

My quarter century birthday (the big 2-5) was on October 13th.  The birthday posts are going to have to be installments since it carried over several days...that's right, birthdayS. 

On the 12th, my coworkers took me out to dinner to a place that serves this:

That delicious plate is a green pumpkn with duck cooked in it.  Soooooo goooooood!

 Notice the demolished pumpkin and alllllll the side dishes.

Yogurt Cake...mmmm

Select 8

Sorry my 8 followers.  I have been so BUSY with everything in the past week and it shows no sign of slowing before I go stateside again.  I am also more than slightly down about leaving Korea.  

I keep looking around whenever I am out here and thinking, "What are you going to do in Nebraska?...." 

Yes, I know I don't have to stay in the great state of Nebraska, but I am still not in a good mood about my move.

Cake

This morning I had to make a cake purchase.  I am throwing my own birthday party in my afterschool English class and really would an American birthday be complete without a cake?  I think not.  I ran to Tous Les Jours today, a little french bakery.  As I went to pay, the man explained to me that their credit card machine was not up and running yet.
PANIC!  A birthday party without a cake?!

Luckily, I have been to this bakery ALOT in the past two years that I have lived in Songuri.  He explained that I could just come back later today and pay him.  How nice is that?  I don't think I could even do that in Nebraska where I live. 

Today is going to be a good, good day!

Mask Festival

This past Saturday, October 3, 2010 a group of my girlfriends and I decided to travel to Andong.  Andong is about a 3 hour bus ride from Seoul. Yes I did sleep the entire time to and from on the bus.

Some of the masked dancers we saw that evening in the rain.  They were pretty amazing!

The beginning of the boy band group shots.

On the longest wooden bridge in Korea.

The best part of this picture...my camera string hanging out of my pocket. Hot.

KBS shoots old school Korean dramas here!

The whole gang!

Some of the kids that were performing.  I love talking to kids and these boys were chatty!

I decided I needed to paint a fan.  It was me and about 5 kids that were probably 8 and under. I felt pretty cool.  The girl sitting next to me would not have anything to do with me...I kept trying anyways!

Our yummy lunch!  It's called, Ddalk Jjim. Anyways it's clear noodles, potatoes, chicken, veggies and tons of sauce. Yum!

My buddy Corinna and I. . .our engagment picture.

Aren't we cute?

(In case you don't know...I'm sarcastic)

Waiting for the bus down to Andong.

Snakes! on a plane

My school finally made me do it...I had to buy a ticket home last week.  I literally perused http://www.kayak.com/ for about 10 minutes and 5 minutes later I had my ticket home.  I cried the entire time during this process.

(I'm really hoping that this doesn't happen...)

My flight leaves November 1st  Seoul-Portland-Salt Lake City-Omaha.   It's going to be a loooooooooooooooooooooooong day!

The best part I leave November 1st at 11AM and arrive in the cornfields at 5:30PM on November 1st!  Pretty cool or at least I think so...but I'm a nerd like that.

So pretty much I'll be going back to....