During the night, I rolled over and felt a sharp pain in my back. It seemed like my back was getting worse, not better. But when I woke up this morning, I did not notice the pain. Even when I got up, I was unable to believe how little pain there was. Maybe something was out of alignment and it snapped back in? I drank water and checked e-mail and swallowed three packets of Vit C. I did some tapping around letting go of past events, and not quite believing the back pain was gone. I wrote my blog post for yesterday, thinking there must be more than I was remembering. I got dressed and assembled the fish blocks. I decided a few extra would be nice, just in case. I made one more and was working on another when Myra rang the doorbell. She was early, but it was ok. We put stuff in her car, including stuff that was still in Chris' car. Then we went to the chapel. I set up while she went to park the car. We laid out all the fish blocks. We arranged them randomly. I had forgotten my camera, so the church secretary took a picture with her phone and printed it out. We were going to work from that, but we decided to try other arrangements, like dark to light, rainbow order, etc. I went home to get my camera so we could compare the different arrangements. Anna came to help. She had her son with her and he wanted to go home. Nela came on her lunch break. She made another fish, and Myra fixed a fish. So we traded out. Then we decided we had a shot at finishing the top so we stayed late. I cut edge blocks and corner blocks. Myra had to go do something. Anna stayed to help, but her little boy got hungry so she took him for lunch. Myra came back and we sewed as fast as we could. We got most of it together before she got back. When it was down to two pieces, I cut borders from a piece of purple while someone else did the final seam. Then I trimmed the corners and edges in preparation for the border. But it was 4pm and the taxi was coming at 4. I wanted to take it to Seoul to get quilted, but I did not have a backing and Myra calculated that it would cost at least $100 to quilt it. We did not think it would raise that much money on silent auction, so there was no point in paying to have it quilted. We decided to tie it after all. We folded it up and packed everything in her car for sewing class later. She drove me home. Chris was home waiting. I threw a few last minute things in the suitcase and packed my laptop. I ate some seed crackers. The taxi arrived and we got in. He drove us to the Masan train station. We stood in line for paper tickets, having secured seats online. Then I bought some flavored kimbap at the convenience store. We ate it on the train platform. Chris put his jacket on me to keep warm. When the train arrived, we got on, Chris carried the luggage. We had first class seats; nice and roomy. There was no place to plug in, so I got out my tablet. It took a while to get on the net, so I decided to read kindle books. It turns out that the books were not actually on my tablet. When I finally got on the net, I made sure to download them for next time. I read some e-mail, and meditated (dozed). In three hours we reached Seoul. When we came out of Seoul Station, it had just rained. We stood in line for a taxi, which took about 10 minutes. He drove us to the Shilla hotel. I was amazed with the curb side service: everyone bowing and welcoming us. The lobby was incredible: shiny, glittery hanging things from the ceiling. Our luggage was taken to our room and we were escorted to the 23rd floor, where we checked in and were directed to the lounge. Happy hour was in force with a buffet. Although it was after nine, we both got a plate of upscale food. I felt severly under dressed. Then we used the passcard to go to our room. The bathroom walls were all glass and the view was beautiful. We got ready for bed and I sat down to answer e-mail and write to my blog.
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