An interesting night...

So, last night Anna and I decided to go on an adventure to see the new Batman movie, which just hit the theaters in Korea this weekend.  We left before supper so that we could buy our tickets, then eat, then go to the movie.  We got one of the 20 remaining tickets for the 9:00 show.  Seats are assigned for movies here so with a lot of body language, we managed to pick out seat D1 and D2.  Then, we went looking for a place to eat.  We were feeling really brave and confident since we had managed to get the taxi driver to take us to the right place, find the theater, and buy movie tickets so we were looking for a Korean restaurant with pictures on the menu.  Was it ever a good choice for adventure! We found one and took off our shoes at the door.  We didn't know if we were supposed to seat ourselves or wait.  A lady ran up and got us some pillows and told us to sit.  She asked us what we wanted (I think) and we didn't know what anything was so we just pointed to the table next to us and ordered what they were having.  The waitress brought us lots of little sides, but we didn't know where the silverware was.  We asked and she showed us a little box on our table that was full of chopsticks.  We began to try the little sides when she brought out the grill and the meat, mushrooms, and onions.  After putting them on the grill, she cut them with scissors into smaller pieces so we could put them in the lettuce wrap.  Then, she wiped her hands on my cloth and gave it back to me!  Anna and I were just laughing at everything that was going on around us.  We began eating and "talking" with the men at the table next to us, who were laughing at our poor chopsticks abilities.  One even came up and helped Anna.  At one point in time the lady noticed that we weren't dipping the meat in this oil sauce before putting it in the lettuce so she took a piece from our grill, dipped it, blew it off to cool it, and held it in front of my mouth for me to take a bite.  I did, but it was just so different from anything that would happen in the U.S.  I tried asking if any of the foods were spicy, which worked pretty well, until I took a huge bite of a jalapeno pepper.  If you know me well, you would know that I HATE spicy things.  I had to spit it out and eat more cucumber jelly noodles to cool my mouth. Overall the meal was tasty and an exciting cultural experience.  From there, we walked to Costco where we bought way too much stuff.  I think it weighed about 80 lbs. all together.  We walked back to the theater, but quickly realized we couldn't take it all in so we left the stuff in some lockers.  We arrived at the movie and Anna thought it was necessary to order the family pack of food because it was only w10,000 (about $10) and we got 2 drinks, popcorn, caramel corn, nachos, and...squid.  We thought it was some kind of candy until we noticed how fishy it smelled.  We found our seats in the giant theater and enjoyed the rest of the batman movie.  Besides a slight scare that the area where we had kept our stuff was locked (which it wasn't, we just had to go outside and around) the rest of the night went smoothly.  It was quite an interesting night