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Today was a transit day, and we drove the hour from Gyeongju to Busan.  Our first stop was a cooking class near the beach. We prepared a soup, bibimbap, and chive pancakes.  There were some Hungarians and a Canadian in our class, all friendly and fun to cook with. The meal was superb, and the homemade lunches was the best I’ve ever eaten.  After our class, we checked into our Lotte brand hotel  the hotel is also a department store in a busy downtown area of Busan.  We roamed and went shopping in an underground mall  they were selling clothing made in Korea, which is embarrassingly cheap.  Jane was running out of clean shirts, but it was actually cheaper to be $8 to $10 shirts in the mall than it was to get them cleaned at the hotel.  Yeah, we take back anything skeptical we ever said about the quality of desserts in Korea.  We were wrong. The zero calorie snack store cracked us up.  I don’t trust subway to properly store food safe turkey...

 Today we found new adventures, and made the most of our free time in Gyeongju.  We ate another hearty breakfast at the Hilton.  That Hilton buffet is world class, with everything one could want for breakfast from any number of countries.  We arrived at the Teddy Bear Museum with almost no clue what we were in for.  What we found made us laugh and exclaim “Awwwww” repeatedly. The back story of the museum is that teddy bears invented a time travel museum and went back in time to study dinosaurs  but some bad bears tried to steal the machine and bring dinosaurs to the future  to get away, a teddy family hid the Time Machine by traveling back to the Silla period in Gyeongju, witnessing the major events in the towns history.  Along the way they had space and undersea adventures.   Oh yeah, and Marty McFly and Doc Brown were there with the Delorian looking at the dinosaurs too.   We were fortunate to have had history day before the teddy bear...