Vacation Cetera

Performance Weekend

I. Pirates, catch me please!
   Great consternation and woe.
   Gravity wins. Ow.

Food

I. Mom doesn't eat meat
   Spicy is not her fav'rite.
   "Why'd she come?" asks G.

II. Mom likes daikon lots
    I think it's disgusting stuff.
    Where's the lasagna?

III. No meat, no spice Mom
    Finds Korean food she likes:
    Dulsut bibimbap!

IV. You want the fish grilled?
     (Many looks of confusion)
     Result: delicious.

V. Special white, house white
    Why, mysterious difference?
    More cc's: "special"


The Hotel

I. Mom thinks whispering-
   Conspiratorially-
   Elevators, sly.

II. Seventh floor sauna
    Naked ladies everywhere
    Shame I'm no straight man.

IIa. Twenty-five won scrub
      Many layers of skin, then -
      Oh, look how we glow!

Busan Market

I. Swimming eels in tubs
    Kitschy Buddhas wave smugly.
    Busan Market: grand.

II. Mung bean pancakes, hot.
    Flowered shoes for just ten bucks.
    Good day for shopping.

III. Brown dirt becomes art:
      Pots, tiles, vases, plates and bowls.
      Gracious potter smiles.

Busan in General

I. Busan transfer tune
    Cheerfully whistles to say,
    "Disembark, dingbat!"

II. Mom's lost her ticket
    Exasperated, I sigh.
    Hello, role reversal.

III. TV everywhere,
      Not Mom's very favorite.
      She desires silence.

IV (The World Cup):
    Shouting Korea
    They don't kid about the name.
    Red Devils have won!

Weather

I. Blue sky? Hard to tell.
   Raining for so very long,
   Harder to believe.


From Mom, about her own adventures (I will try to get her own account of this day and post it later, which may help explain some of the following. Know that we both found this place on a map and in Mom's guidebook, but the locals had no freaking idea this entire temple thing was there. It made finding the place pretty difficult, though after the trek she underwent in order to see it, it becomes kind of clear why the locals don't know it):

I. (섬버사):
   Locals are in awe!
   Mom finds mythical temple
   Should have worn Nikes.

II. So hot, so weary
    A foreigner made welcome
    English? No, just grace.

III. Mom's in a temple
      I am vacationing right:
      On the beach, with book.

IV. New York to Tokyo,
      Man's harrowing tale: two days
      Thirty thousand miles!

Unpleasant Surprise

I. Vacation ho! What?
   Avalon was just kidding.
   Early meeting, Wed.

II. Snores drive me from bed
    I have a revelation:
    Don't sleep in the tub.

Addenda

I. I have so much loot
   I will look so very posh!
   ... so nice to see Mom.

(She came up with that last line, there).