First Festival!

My first festival April 7th! I made plans to go to Jinhae for the biggest cherry blossom festival in Korea! It really did have the most cherry blossom trees I have ever seen...and this is how my adventures started... 

I met up with a large group of 13 in Gyeongju on friday night. Then we ate dinner and did norebang ( karaoke- this is our typical routine) till 3 am. After that whole night we woke up and proceeded to catch a noon bus to Masan. However there was a marathon going on so the taxi could not take us to the bus terminal so we walked! Missed the first bus and had to take a later one. Finally we got on the hour and half trip to Masan! 

Now Masan is a city right next to Jinhae so when we arrived we hopped on another bus to Jinhae. In total from gyeongju to Jinhae was about 3 hrs of traveling. Finally we arrive at the festival grounds. It was extremely beautiful with perfect weather. We walked down the main stream which was completely lined in cherry blossom trees. There was a lot of street food and fun toys( most of us purchased).

After a few hrs we thought we should head back to Gyeongju. However the congestion from the amount of people made traffic awful. The bus we were trying to take back was so full it didn't stop at our  bus stop. 

Next attempt: we walked to the train station crossing our fingers. No trains, to any decent location for the rest of the night! Also no taxis. 

Next attempt: (plan C) I was so tired and completely done with the clusters of people that I suggested we get on any bus and just get out of that city because any other city all have a bus terminal or at least easier traffic to travel in. Everyone agreed and we slammed into the next on coming bus. ( A huge thank you to Emily who blocked every ones way so our group could all get on)We stayed on the bus for about 40 minutes and ended up heading towards Busan. Then we followed some students taking another bus to get to downtown Busan(30min). After arriving we took the subway (50 min) to the bus terminal were we arrived with only 5 minutes to spare to catch the last bus to Gyeongju. We got on the bus (1 hr ). Finally we pulled in around 1 am only to realize we hadn't eaten dinner. We ate, we slept (kinda), we woke up, and walked to the bus terminal. From here at 8:30 in the mornng we split up from there to our individual cities. My bus ride was 2 hrs and 30 minutes back. 

This is the most crazy traveling I have done in one weekend and surprisingly the funniest part we had was randomly getting on a bus and just finding our way. We come up with a group name and dedicated a song to us that we listened to frequently throughout the night to keep us going. We all remained intact, no one got hurt and we all got home. Can't wait for the next festival:)

Team name: fantastic baby ( inspired by bigbang)