WeEkEnD!

It's 8:30 am and all five of us are strapped up and ready to go. We push our destination into the GPS while trying to get the heating to work (it had suddenly dropped from the beautiful, sunny 24 degrees to a freezing 9). The GPS doesn't know that a whole new bridge has been built to Busan, reducing the 2 hour drive to a mere 45 mins, or so we were told. So we just decided to drive on the new bridge and follow the GPS when we got to Busan. The sun was glittering on the sea, and the trees blowing in the cold wind. I wish that I could be sitting by the window dreaming instead of being squashed between two little mokeys singing 'soft kitty warm kitty'. The new bridge takes you over the sea and under an island, the gps was freaking out and screaming "Route Recalculation". Soon it just shut up and shows our little orange-happy-days-bus driving over the ocean. We finally get off the bridge and arrive near Busan, we buy some warm chestnuts off a very energetic guy and , after ruby, river and i decide that we dislike them, mom and dad eat them all. The GPS came back to it's senses and we began following it, assuming it knew the way. We assumed wrong. The GPS took us through a wide range of district roads, tollgates and u-turns. It took us another two hours to get to our destination. And where did we land up? In an old derelict part of town with no sign of life anywhere around.Big. Fat.DOH! so we ate our sandwhiches and try to figure out the spelling of Haeundae , a beach near where we wanted to go. Of course it wasn't how we spelt it at all and when w eventually arrived at the shopping mall it was already 12 o'clock. We drove down the spiral road and into the parking lot, where the first floor was reserved for handicapped people. so we take the nearest road up, thinking it will take us to the next floor. Wong again! It just took us straight out and we had to try explain to the tollgate lady that we hadn't spent long enough in the parking lot to pay. We park and head into the shopping mall where we then go aallll the way up to the top floor and then alllllll the way down because we discover that we are actually in the wrong building altogether.
  The ice-skating rink isn't sardine-packed but packed enough to make you a bit nervous. There are kids falling left right and center. Kids swimming against the flow, kids fighting , kids on their phone while ice-skating and kids trying to take pictures of themselves in the middle of the way. Ruby gets the hang of it quickly and river  spaghetti legs could finally get off the side (with the help of mother).
After 3 hours of full on ice-skating we stumble off the ice and gulp down cups of water and slip on our shoes. We wonder around the shop and mom drags us into a apple store where we browse through all the high tec, super computers. Mom is looking at a particular computer when she pressed a certain thingy ma bop and taa daa!! Up pops a little camera that does all those funny facial morphs. One makes your eyes ginormous, another your forehead. We could have spent HOURS in front of that computer, pulling faces , and we almost did, but then an angry Korean huffed and we shuffled out of there A.S.A.P.
We strolled past all the other shops selling shoes, handbags and ice-cream!! We sat licking our cones, and walking towards the food hall, where we devoured two bowls of Korean bibimbap( a hot bowl of rice topped with assorted vegetables and a spicy tomato paste.) It was scrumptious and with a full tummy we started to head home.