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Here I am!

Heather and Paul (aka H-dawg and P-diddy, mom and dad) were here for 2 weeks and left on Wednesday. GREAT time. It was the first time they have come to MY house. Its hard to explain, but I felt responsible for them, and I wanted to make sure that they would be ok in this strange city. And of course they were! They travel all the time. Although they've never been to Asia, this was a pretty easy city for them to orient themselves and get around in.

We went to Busan the first weekend. We took the train down and stayed at the Westin. It was beautiful, we had an awesome view of the ocean and the food was great. Have you ever seen a picture of a beach with a billion yellow umbrellas on it, covering every square inch of the sand? That is Hyundae beach and its where the hotel was. But March is not so busy and we could see the sand. BUT the illness I caught just before they came manifested itself into bronchitis, or a lung infection, while we were there and I ended up sleeping for part of Saturday and all of Sunday. I had a fever and I was coughing up some ugly stuff. At least mom was there to take care of me! I'll be back in Busan soon enough to check out the city. Then dad caught my horrid illness and had to see my doc to get some meds. He felt like ass, which sucks when you are on vacation. The air here and the pre yellow dust season didn't help matters. Yellow dust is sand from the Gobi desert in China and pollutants that come over to Korea in the spring winds. Apparently its pretty gross. I might be buying one of those masks. I'm keeping my eye out for a Hello Kitty one.

H and P did the DMZ, a city bus tour, we shopped, hung out at their hotel (we all agreed that my 300 sq foot apartment was not good for the 3 of us), ate dinner, had cocktails. We went for an awesome dinner at the top of the Seoul Tower (an important landmark, I guess). I had steak and delicious wine and all sorts of other yummy food. The two weeks went by so fast though. I miss them now (I know you both are reading this, I miss you).

Now, I am doing a Master Cleanse. I am on day 2 and all I consume is lemonade. Its made form fresh lemon juice, water, maple syrop and cayenne pepper. I've always been curious about doing a cleanse and this seems to be the one for me. I read the book and it was fascinating. It goes for 10 days and gets rid of EVERYTHING. I'm not scared, I'm more curious to see what my body cleanses. The book mentions people that did hard drugs in the past and experienced a "high" while they were cleansing. Another guy had cancer and chemo, and when he cleansed years later, he said he was still burping up the chemo meds.

I haven't craved anything or been hungry. I've seen posters of food, or people eating, and it really didn't affect me. BUT it is only day 2 still. Denise is doing it with me. We have become a single unit. Everything is WE and US. "What are WE doing this weekend?" Sometimes we'll tell stories from the other person, because we know all the details, or will finish each other's sentences. WE decided that if we were a couple, it would be perfect because her mom already loves me despite having not met, and my parents already loved her before they met. Too bad...

I'm planning another trip to Japan. I have the last week of July off and I am going to take a ferry over to Fukuoka and then travel around the southern islands. Denise will be gone as her contracts ends shortly before that. But we'll meet up in Thailand in September anyway. So its me traveling alone so far, unless any faithful readers want to meet me. I LOVE Japan and I am so excited to go back.

Over and out, going to make more spicy lemonade!