The weekend

Friday was boozy enough as it was. A group of us 10 hostel goers went out to a hof room for drinking. It's a bar/restaurant where everything is separated into private rooms for the groups that visit. Queue drinking until 6am, where I stumbled back to the hostel. After waking up at the cracks of noon (Korea time, 3rd behind nz), I chilled at the hostel waiting for John.  Unbeknownst to be though, he'd nay gone to bed 30mins before I got up. I didn't see him until 6pm.

This night was only exceeded by the pub crawl we did a few hours later. We met up with HotSauce  (aka Tasos from Greece) whom organises the event, and joined almost 2 dozen others to rampage through Hongdae. 2 pitchers of Jack Daniels and coke were a welcome change from all the soju and beer we were having.

We went through 5 bars/clubs, during which we stopped for some monster pizza slices to keep us from falling of the deep end. It was another mid to late morning return to the hostel.

Thank god for Sunday though. We did nothing.  Absolutely nothing, and it was glorious. A week of hard partying had exhausted me, and a lazy day was exactly what the doctor ordered.

Speaking of which, the MERS hysteria is rapidly rising, with over a thousand schools closing, twice that in quarantine (most self imposed) and confirmed cases in other cities here in Korea. There are a whole lot more surgical masks being worn these days, but the only thing I'm worried about is the concert this weekend being canceled, as it was perhaps the highlight of this whole adventure.

It's lunch time on Monday now, and we're planning a trip to Namsan tower with a couple of Americans. Later tonight it's Game of Thrones night, followed by a visit to the Outback Steakhouse for its $5 all you can drink beer.