Toboganing

Today was the warmest day in a week; the sky was clear, the sun shone, there was no freezing wind. So after brunch at Anne-Marie's -- man she invited a lot of people over! -- we drove 20 minuites, into the hills to go toboganing.

Small problem, there wasn't much snow, but no matter we tried anyway. A few Korean families were building snowmen and chucking snow balls at each other, all excited. Even I must admit, it was nice to see snow on the ground again, to hear it crunch under your feet and see stretched white before you. 'Twas perdy.

Before toboganning we hiked up the hill, I saw some ice crystals and big ass scary Hitchcock birds, three deer booting along together. I took lots of pics and post some.

The weekend went by so fast! Tried partying Saturday night but it was a bust. Doug took us to this small party where I didn't know the people and afterward to Agave but not much was going on there and I wasn't feeling it so home by one a.m.

Haven't heard back from the travel agents about my Thailand ticket so I'm thinking that won't be happening; just have to find ways of entertaining myself here on this rock. Doug is all excited because he's going home to Australia for a month the bugger. Woody and Laurie are taking off to the Phillipines, Anne-marie is going to Bali (but not until late February), Jeremy is flying back to Quebec for a visit, and other people are going to Seoul and Japan...basically at least half of everyone I hang out with will be gone. Oh, well, they'll all be jealous when I'm on my one year sabbatical ;) What's two weeks of boredom anyway?

Did I mention I've been going to the pool at the Ramada hotel? It costs 10,000 won each time, a little expensive but worth it, because the pool is big and clean and has huge glass windows from floor to ceiling, filled with the choppy, blue ocean. And after my laps, I go into the "dry Sauna" hut and sweat, reminds me of lying on beach in summer and is super relaxing.

They have a full on sauna (or jimjibang), but I'm not down with entering the nudist colony just yet.

I guess I was tired after snowing it today, because after lunch I crashed for 4 hrs. It's 8pm now, and I just woke up...oops.