A day in Kwangju

Yesterday, we went to Kwangju with Sarah and Rodrigo, and Shona, who was also from the camp a few weeks ago. It was a lot of fun! I was on fellow-foreigner overload, so I apologize to anyone hurt by the high velocity actions of my mouth.
Seriously, I was giddy.
We met at the Starbucks at noon. From there we headed to a travel agent called "Blue Travel". There, Jessie and I were happy to learn that our flights for our vacation (To Bangkok, one internal from ChiangMai to Phuket, and then out of Phuket) will cost us about half of what we had found using english search engines. Not exactly surprising, considering that those mostly led us back to Canadian travel agents. Locals get better prices! Duh! So that's really good news! Now we have a lot more money to travel with, and it won't eat all of our savings to go!
We went to a Thai restaurant next, and it made us all realize just how horrible Korean food is. Well, maybe it's not horrible, just horribly repetitive. Not everything has to be cooked with the same two spices, Korea!
Anyways, it also made Jessie and I really excited for the trip to Thailand, because Thai food, when it's not being incredibly too hot to eat (as I've heard that it can be), is delicious! My meal came served in a pine apple! How do you beat that?
After that we went to Hyundai mart, which is another pricy up-scale department store with groceries in the basement. We made fun of a bunch of stuff, most of which was horribly translated english. Or, it was correct engish, but totally strange stuff, such as this ketchup bottle with a garbled quote from an old advertisement (picture to come).
I looked at a few more packs too, for our trip to Thailand/future backpacking adventures, and I decided on one by berghaus, which seems pretty good, and the onine reviews are also very positive. It is also about $100 cheaper than the only one that I have found that seems any better, so that's all the better.
Then we headed to a theatre for our real goal of the day: to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It was good. That is, good if you have read the book. If you did not read the book, don't bother going to see it. You will be so lost, and nothing will make sense. Jessie put it best when she said "It's like ilustrations for the book". You will get the general idea of what was happening, but you'll constantly be wondering "What was that? Why is that significant?".
Bottom line: Most reviewers are apparently too wrapped up in the sexual content and violence of the film to realize that most people who watched the movie will understand nothing. And a special note to the reviewer s who said it flew by:

IT FELT EXACTLY LIKE TWO AND A HALF HOURS.

We left the theatre and goofed off for a bit. Then Jessie and I got worried, because we weren't sure about the buses in Kwangju, so it may have been a good idea to leave early in case the buses stopped running. To save on hotel costs, you know?

Anyways, we got to the bus station around 8:45, and found out that we had over an hour before the last bus. So, we had another coffee at Starbucks. And Jessie bought chocolate-covered espersso-beans. It was her first adventure with them, and love won out over entertainment, so I warned her to take it easy, since she was simultaneously getting a latte.

We decided on midnight spaghetti for dinner. When we got home, I started cutting tomatoes and mushrooms. And hour and a half later, we had midnight spaghetti. Way too much, too. It was a night of lying on our sides because we were so full.

Of course, Jessie had her first coffee-related jitters. She had some shaking from the beans and latte combo. So, it was a late, full night. Delicious, delicious fullness.

It was a really really good day. I had so much fun