After a couple of hours of sleeping, we headed out of our apartment to find some food and buy as much alcohol as we could carry. We decided to have a few drinks while playing card games and chatting, before heading down to the nearest bar to make sure we could be around other people at the important hour. Our drinking game got us suitably warmed up and lubricated, resulting in all manner of hilarity that probably shouldn't be mentioned here. This is a family blog!
Anyway, we went down to the bar, where luckily we found a barmaid who spoke a little english - just enough to take our orders of fruit juice and soju cocktails. Eventually the midnight hour approached, so we took great pleasure in joining the other two or three occupied tables in the countdown, then launched our own private performance of Auld Lang Syne.
The bar wasn't exactly swinging, so we soon headed off to a noraebang (we seem to have developed a liking for the karaoke here. I think it's because it's private, so you don't have to subject too many people to your drunken manglings of classic songs) where we spent the next 3 hours or so, making utter fools of ourselves. Good times were had by all!
Somehow we managed to leave (actually, we got thrown out. Closing time comes earlier in small town Korea it seems) and head back to our apartment. My memory here becomes a little hazy, but I'm reasonably certain we went quickly and quietly to bed. Despite any claims to the contrary.
Fortunately we didn't have to be up too early the next day, so we made it to our bus in plenty of time and got back to Seoul. We arrived back at the same hostel, only to discover that we'd been double booked, and all that was available was a room sharing with a weird American we'd met earlier on in the trip, plus a small room in the owner's apartment. Becky and I took the small room, which turned out to be her son's old room. It was a little awkward, as our room was effectively in her kitchen and we had to share the family bathroom! All adds to the excitement though. We then rejoined the girls and headed out for food, shopping and a DVD bang - a room that can be hired to watch a DVD in! They have a huge selection of DVDs available, although it seems most of the time the rooms are hired by young Korean couples in search of... privacy. Ahem. This probably caused no end of confusion when I turned up with 4 girls! Anyway, we watched a somewhat confusing Korean horror film (A Tale of Two Sisters - worth a watch if you don't mind subtitles and deliberately hard to follow plots) and made for our beds, eager to get a good night's sleep prior to our DMZ trip the next morning.
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