ate at the free pancake breakfast, got ready for the day and then went to eat lunch at Twisters (a combo Mexican/Northern Mexican restaurant). I had the enchiladas (carne verde - pork) with both the green and red sauce. I've learned here that the red sauce is really spicy (makes my eyes water, nose run, and I can't feel my tongue), but it's good. David had just the green sauce and that was about as much as he could handle (plus the pork itself was spicy). Daniel and Erin were unadventurous and just ate cheeseburgers. Bow had a chicken sandwich (with green chile) and Jaeyong had some sort of New Mexican chicken wrap. All of it was really good!
Next we went to Walmart to stock up on essentials (more shampoo, chapstick for everyone because it is so dry out here, new flip-flops for David because he had a "flip-flop blowout", and new sunglasses for Daniel and Jaeyong).
Then we went to Caliber's to go shooting. Bow had asked earlier if she was ever going to get to shoot a gun in America because her friend was an exchange student in Texas and she got to do that. So, we to this range where we could rent a gun and shoot. None of us had ever shot a handgun before, so we went with the 9 mm semi-automatic because it apparently had the least amount of recoil. We picked out two guns that seemed to have the best grips for us and the girls shot on one lane and the boys on the other. The girls had an HK P30 and the boys had a Smith & Wesson.
The boys enthusiastically went through their first box of ammunition and wanted to buy another one (which they also gleefully went through in a few minutes). Of course, they were much more reserved than some of the people in there. The lady next to me was shooting a 45 mm and it sounded like a cannon going off each time she shot it (and that was through the ear plugs)! A little later a guy came in with a fully automatic and he went in the far lane and shot of hundreds of rounds (he didn't even have a target up)!
For the girls, it was a little bit different of an experience. I must say that for me, holding the handgun for the first time was a little scary. I had shot a 22 rifle before with Katlin, but it felt very different than an handgun. It was heavier than I anticipated (mine held 15 rounds and David's held 17). Also, you didn't have to reload between each shot like the old rifle I was using. It also had much more recoil than the rifle (it still wasn't bad, but it was more than I was used to). But, after a few rounds, I felt a little more in control. Bow also took a few rounds to get used to the gun, but then she shot like a pro (after I moved the target a bit closer so she could put some holes in it). Erin was okay for the first shot, but then the spent shell went down her shirt and that really spooked her. Then she was paranoid that she'd drop the gun and it'd go off and she'd hurt someone, etc. (if anyone who is reading this knows Erin then they know that she can really overthink things and psych herself out). I got her to shoot once more while holding her hand, but then she was done. It's interesting to see the natural gender differences -- the boys taking to it like ducks to water and the girls being much more timid about it.
We started a Phase 10 card game in the evening, socialized with a group of geology students from Bowling Green State University who were there doing field work, and then ordered Pizza Hut pizza (again). Then we went to sleep and got up early the next morning to drive longer (Jaeyong has learned that when I say it is a "short day driving" that means 6 hrs or so -- the longest he'd ever been in a car before coming here was 4 hrs and that was driving all the way across Korea).
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