I had my best weekend yet in Korea last weekend. It's been so hot here lately so my friends and I made the decision that "screw it, we're finding a beach". We heard there was some islands off Seoul, so we headed in that direction. After a 2 hours subway, followed by a taxi ride, followed by a ferry, followed by a bus - we finally found one! Alas, sand and water! These are some pictures of me doing a shot of soju while waiting for a ferry . . .
Feeling good about the decision . . .
Alrighty, here I go . . .
Chasing it with some beer . . .
Don't puke, don't puke . . .
Chase it with some more beer . . .
Look Mom! I did it!
Haha, we had a good laugh at these! Anyway, after that long journey, it was time to find a hotel. Of course, the only hotel had one room with no beds it it, only "yo's", these thin matresses that they put on the floor. But who cares when a beach is right there, right? So we headed out in search of food and found a seafood place that gave us way more oysters, mussels, conks, and other seafood-alicious food that we could ever want for only $30 bucks. Too bad we had no idea how to eat the stuff and ended up with the entire restaurant laughing at us.
Our comfy hotel room - Andy, Jon and Karen getting the drinking games started.
After that, it was on to the beach for some beer and fireworks. I love how Korea is this very technologically advanced place, but it kinda forgot about many basic laws and regulations . . . helmets, traffic, drinking, and fire safefty regulations are just a few. For example, allowing drunk young people to set off fireworks and drag racing on a public beach. So, yeah, we fit right in.
Gotta have a litre of beer close by at all times . . . beach etiquette.
So, we managed to drag our asses out of bed at a decent hour the next morning and get some rays. First was a little rock climbing, next scoping out some breakfast (there's no such thing as breakfast in Korea - it's the same meal as dinner and lunch), followed by a long day at the beach. It was the most awkward I've ever felt at the beach, however, seeing as we were the absolutely only people in bathing suits. All the Koreans were completely covered from head to toe in long clothing and the beach was dotted with huge umbrellas and actual tents. What's the point of going to the beach then?! Anyway, we made friends with 6 other foreigners and hung out with them all day - strength in numbers. We got a hell of a lot of stares, though.
Chilling on the rocks
The boys aren't sure if they like their first round of breakfast . . . silk worm larvae.
This picture cracks me up. This group of Korean teenagers kept asking us to have their pictures taken with them, so we asked them to take a picture with us. It's all about the "peace". My favourite part was when this Canadian guy we met joined what we think was their bible group circle, all the while drinking his litre of beer. Way to represent buddy! All of us Canucks them serenaded them with "O Canada". I don't think they were that impressed . . .
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