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One weekend per year, at a point on the southern tip of the South Korean peninsula, the sea parts in a certain area that allows visitors to walk on the sea-bed floor from the main land to an island nearby. Apparently this is quite a spectacle.
As residents of Suwon, we are quite a distance from this spectacle (6 hours).....so it was decided that we would visit a "similar sea-parting area" (as deemed by our Korean native friend Seung Ju). Turns out that our alternative was not so "similar" and definitely not so spectacular......But it was a destination that will never be forgotten mainly because of the great group of people that came along for the journey.






Here is our initial bus ride that kicked off the journey. We were getting crazy with the MakJu and the Gimbap. If you look closely to the back left of the bus, you will see a high school aged boy that is being made to feel very uncomfortable by our group's antics and Nick's wandering hands.

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Bus stop loitering







Korean westcoastin



Korean's are known for their tough/gung-ho business mentality. I discovered this for myself after experiencing the tenacity of this restaurant-advertising zebra.

The zebra's tactics of waving his hands in the air while squatting up and down totally worked on us. We were in his restaurant in no time.








Sparkler-time


The world's saddest Pikachu




Low tide



Creepy carnival

World's most erotic carnival ride


The Viking

Seung Ju wasn't doing too well on the way home.

Baseball Game

Surprisingly, I am now going to say that Korean baseball games with-out-a-doubt, rival American baseball games. I say this for a number of reasons that you might not expect:
1. Everything is much, much cheaper. Draft beer is 3,000 Won (about $2) per cup. That
price is cheaper than most bars in Korea.
2. Tickets to sit practically anywhere in the stadium are just 9,000 Won.
3. There are female cheerleaders whom have multiple wardrobe changes and dance
funny.
4. There is one male cheerleader who is constantly going nuts with a whistle.
5. During the 6th (not 7th) inning stretch, four college aged girls were brought on top of
the home dugout for a beer-chugging contest.
6. Absolutely no fan from the home team was leaving the stadium or losing energy
despite the fact that they were down 9 to 1 in the top of the 9th inning.



SK's male cheerleader (with the whistle)......and possibly the team's manager as well.







Cheerleaders

It's not over until the fat lady has already sung and packed up her stuff to go home.

Dongdaemun Skatepark

For the day of the Gyeonggi Province's school superintendent election, all schools within the province were given the day off (Wednesday). So, Carillo and I decided to go on a giant skateboard mission to search and destroy as many skateparks as possible within Seoul......Well we made it to one. This notion is not because of our laziness or the distance between parks, rather it was due to the fact that Dongdaemun skatepark was so much fun.

My pictures won't do it justice but this park is outstanding. There were stairs, interchangeable handrails, boxes, quartepipes, a bank, two concrete bowls, a winding river gap, and all legdes in the park were lined with metal coping.












We didn't get that much footy that day (cuz we never film, cuz we're not that good) but we did manage to get one clip of me suckin it up at bowl-riding.