chuseok travels part deux

The next day, we headed to Haeyonde Beach. The weather was fairly nice... and the beach was pretty great. I didn't have a bathing suit or a change of clothes, so I just hung out on the sand.. taking pictures and such. That probably doesn't sound very exciting, but I had fun heh. There were the cutest babies around me that I enjoyed staring at and squealing to myself, wishing that I could just squish one.. just for a second haha.















kung-fu hustle much ?





At night, Ryo, James, and I made the greatest decision ever when we agreed that we should try to hit up the food carts and just eat until we burst. Our first stop was one of the seafood carts. We weren't sure of what to order so thankfully the guys next to us were really helpful and ordered for us. We ate octopus, shrimp, barbequed eel, and some omelet. They were all pretty good. We also polished off two bottles of soju between us and offered some up to the gentlemen next to us since they were nice enough to order for us. Next up, we went to another cart and ate some kim mari(rice noodles wrapped in seaweed and then fried in some tempura like batter).. I think the kim mari in Sinchon beats theirs, for sure. We were also served up some soondae(pig intestines stuffed with rice noodles) and various other pig bits. The soondae was pretty good but the other pig bits were too much for me to handle.. they all had really weird textures and consistencies. To finish off the night, some of us bought hot dducs(rice cakes that are filled with brown sugar + nuts and then fried and flattened like a pancake) After the day of massive eating, we decided to get some alcohol and drink in the park near our motel. It was pretty fun except for the hords of mosquitos which are the biggest assholes in the world. Upon returning from the park, Angelica, James, and I were watching some television where some of the funniest shit ever was on. One channel had a boxing match where one of the boxers had an OBVIOUS advantage .. which was being Andre the Giant's Korean doppleganger with blue hair. The other guy was probably at most 5'10, 170 lbs. It was pretty amusing to watch the little guy try to pummel the blue haired giant, while the giant was laughing because the little guy's fists were tickling his belly. There was also a starcraft channel.. which Ryo and James apparently watched for a while the night before. Another channel had a strange movie where the final scene was two guys on a tight rope.. one had his eyes gauged out for some reason, and the other man looked like a woman for another mysterious reason.. it seemed really emotional.. when all of a sudden the two guys jumped in the air and landed on their balls on the tight rope?? Then I guess their balls propelled them into the air where the last shot was a freeze-frame and yeh, WHAT?? I have no idea.















So, after what seemed like a two week long vacation, it was nice to return "home." It's funny what we define as home and how quickly we've come to adopt Sinchon as our home. Home is where your heart is, right? Awww, *a single tear slowly trickles down the face of a clown...* After it all, I left satisfied albeit stinky after pretty much wearing the same thing every day and mosquito bite-ridden. Apparently my skin is not okay with mosquito bites.. I had a pretty crazy reaction to my bites.. and I got fucking THIRTY of them. Not all of them acted a fool though.. just the ones on my ankles and legs got super swollen.. and some of them got extremely red and bubbly looking. It was definitely pretty disgusting.. every time I showed someone my bites they'd jump back while screaming "UGHHH!!" Yeh, I gross people out THAT much. Some of my friends convinced me to go see a doctor... and they just prescribed me some antibiotic cream, steroid cream, and some calamine lotion which has been helping a lot actually. So, yeh. O.k. now I'm uber sreepy + tired so.. until next time... Peace, Love, and Fuck mogitoes.........!!