Saturday night we changed our original plans of staying in Seoul, at Dragon Hill Lodge, through Sunday night. We decided to check out right before church and take a bus back to Osan later that afternoon. That way we’d have a whole day Monday to explore (shop) near Osan AFB. It turned out to be a great idea.
We packed up our suitcases, left them at the front desk and took a taxi to the church. We followed our new friends who live in Yongsang there since it was quite far from the Dragon Hill Lodge. After church, we stayed for their “Much and Mingle”, met some great people and got free lunch:) All English speaking foreigners go to church at this location, so we met people from all over the world. Some people just moved here with military assignments, others with the US State Department jobs, and others were teaching English to the Koreans.
After church, we came back to the hotel, got our luggage, caught a bus back to Osan AFB and in 1 hr and 15 minutes were checking-in into Turumi Lodge. Suites at the Turumi Lodge had a kitchen, living room and a bedroom which made life so much easier for us, especially when putting Mark to bed.
That night we went to….drum roll…Chili’s for dinner. It was exciting! (except I had to send Mark’s corn on a cob and my sizzling chicken fajitas back because they were not even hot)
In the morning, after a delicious breakfast of waffles and pancakes (that I also had to send back because they were burnt on the chocolate chip side, I promise, I am not picky!), we took a taxi to the shopping area right outside the base gate. I enjoyed “shopping” here a lot more than in Seoul. I had as many choices, but fewer crowds. Did we get much? Nope… We got some custom-main luggage embroidered with our names, a blanket, some neck ties and (my favorite) a Korean wooden lamp.
The kids were getting tired after walking around, so after lunch, Robert took them back to the hotel for some serious movie watching and popcorn eating.
I had no other choice but wonder around streets ALL BY MYSELF, window shop and, of course, get a manicure and pedicure (for a fantastic price).
In the evening we ate a Thai restaurant that was all right, not as good as our local Misawa’s Phada’s, in my opinion. Next morning, we had to wake up at 5:30 to catch our free flight back to Misawa. We got on the plane with no problems and finally arrived to Misawa at 11:30 am (military on-board processing takes forever!).
No matter how fun it is to go places and travel to foreign countries, it is always so good and comforting to come home…
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