Another weekend gone in a flash!

We took it easy this weekend, but we did manage to do a few things. The snow here has melted and we are enjoying not having to trudge through the snow to class. We were a little surprised to find quite a bit of litter under that snow though! One thing that has caught me by surprise here is how often we have to walk around puke on the sidewalks. Yes, people here get drunk every night of the week and are not at all ashamed to vomit on the street after having a little too much.

Saturday morning we got up early to catch the 9:35 showing of Alice in Wonderland. We found out when we got there that it was showing in 3D at 10 am, so we decided to wait a bit and see it in 3D. While we were waiting, Michael made friends with Shrek and we ate some sweet popcorn. Here, like in France, you have the option of having salty or sweet popcorn. The sweet popcorn here tastes like a combination of kettlecorn and caramelcorn. It's pretty tasty.

The movie itself was enjoyable, but the 3D was very disappointing. I read somewhere that Tim Burton chose not to film the movie in 3D and added it in later during editing. Honestly, I think the movie is worth seeing, but not in 3D. I wish I wouldn't have seen it in 3D and saved the extra $3 that it cost me.

Later that day, I tried my hand at some baking. We have limited baking supplies and a small toaster oven, so I had to be a little creative. I ended up making 2 mini loaves of bread and some sticky buns. I also have a bit of dough left to make something else later this week. I was pretty happy with the results considering we don't have measuring cups or spoons and I had about a square foot of space for kneeding.

For dinner last night, I tried my hand at making kimbap, which is a rice roll with veggies and sometimes meat. I made them with brown rice, shrimp and some leftover veggies that I pulled out of the freezer. We had them with honey mustard. They also like to put mayo on their rolls here, but we didn't have any at our apartment.

This morning, we slept in . When I got up, Gizmo took my place and kept the bed warm for Michael.

We went grocery shopping this afternoon, which is turning into a weekly habit for us. As soon as we have the ability to use cash again, I think we will just use the local market, which is about a block from our apartment; and the traveling trucks, which have produce for so much cheaper than the grocery stores. Today they were selling bags of 12 apples for 3,000 won. We bought six apples from the grocery store today for 5,000 won. And then we had to lug them all the way back to our apartment (about a mile). Today we picked up some magic pop rice cakes (which I am beginning to love) and bbq cheetos, as well as a bunch of veggies and fruits. A word on the cheeto situation here: they only sell the flavors barbeque and flaming. Kinda weird, since the name cheetos implies that they are cheesy. They also sell pringles here, but that is about it for Americanized snack food.