A Beautiful Spring Weekend

Had a really nice weekend just pass. Spent some time with friends, had some time to myself... nice... Friday night after work I took Mags and went over to Barb's place for Mexican night - woohoo! She made a CRAZY amount of food, and I had tacos and burritos and enchiladas for dinner... I should have taken pictures (my bad!), it was great! There were 7 of us in total, 3 Korean teachers from her school and 4 of us 'others.' Dinner was great, and when we were done we headed out for a couple hours of norae bahng - woohoo! (That's Barb and one of her co-teachers in the picture on the left). It was pretty fun (much funner to go with people who like to drink a little than those who prefer to be smashed all the time!). After that the buses had stopped running back to my place so I had to take a taxi back, but that's no biggee for a night of fun, it was so great to get out!


On Saturday the weather was beautiful I spent most of the day outside wandering around, until my feet hurt really! I took a few pictures after stumbling onto a pinwheel park (you can check the collage here and the rest on Flickr at some point).

Did a bit of shopping, enjoyed the sunshine and fresh air. Though it wasn’t action-packed I really enjoyed the lazy wandering and lazing about. You can click on the collages to see them a little bigger if you'd like!

Met   my   friend Chelsea for a movie on Sunday morning (that’s right, movies here start playing at 7am and run past midnight showings!). She won free tickets somehow and invited me along to “Kick Ass.” I was a little worried when I heard the name, lol, “Kick Ass??” and more-so when I heard it was a comic-based movie, but it was fun. There’s been much discussion about the young girl in the movie because she’s so young and committing a bunch of ninja-style killin’ (I get the argument, but it’s a movie guys, don’t watch it if you don’t want to support it). I was surprised myself, but I really thought it was a good show!

After the movie we walked through a square at AK Plaza and found a group of kids dancin' up a storm trying to attract more kids to their church... now that's one way to drum up business!

For lunch we went for lunch… dalk-galbi (which, by the way, just means chicken-meat), a crazy-spicy chicken dish that’s cooked on a stainless steel pan in front of you.. I have only had it once before, when I first-first-first arrived in Korea, and it was the only time I thought I would die from hot-hot overdose! The dish was so spicy that really ALL I could taste was the spiciness of it, I couldn’t even taste the carrots or potatoes, or any other part of the dish, every swallow was eyes watering, nose running, lips burning, "hot! hot! hot!"… all bad: I swore never to eat it again. However, many years later I thought I’d be brave after 2 of my friends told me it was their FAVorite Korean food… how bad could it be?? If they could do it I could do it... Sure enough, it’s actually my new favorite dish, yum! yum!

After lunch and the movie we went and visited Hee-Won, Maggie’s vet, and stumbled upon the cutest little puppy... hmmm... maybe he'd make a good brother for Mags??