Annyeunghaseyo!!... Yeah we've been taking Korean lessons at night.. but i took tonight off to post this blog.... Alright... a few days late... but i took like 300 pictures so ... ya gotta give me some time t
o filter through all the garbage that i took in... and by garbage.. i mean shots of guys riding on horses standing up... or asian chicks doing flips like 40
feet in the air off of a see saw... and stuff like that... it was pretty crazy... and definitely
something interesting every turn we took... i'm gonna post like 15-20 pics and just explain what happened beside them... so this one might be a little long.... apparently this was called the
Wild Flower Garden (thanks jill.. i stole this info from your blog).. it was basically a bunch of creepy looking dudes made out of wood....
So... then we checked out some sweet pagotas... i'm sure that isn't spelt right... but they are those old chinese colorful buildings.... here's a nice lil shot from there..
Next i passed this crazian old guy who was shuffling a pair of sharp and rusty at the same time scissors yelling something korean... i guess it was "i am old as all hell with gold teeth 'cause i ate too much of this honey candy i'm trying to sell you...
it's 2$ per bag... buy it or i'll cut you with this rusty sharp scissors"... or something like that... either way.. it was pretty tasty... i bought it .... as i didn't want to die...
And yet another artists rendition of an old guy i've come across... or something like that... i found it on the gate to some old building... looked like the candyman above....
I think you can click on it to see a larger size if you want to see the detail... but it works sometimes ... and doesn't sometimes.... k.. next there was an old lady who was spinning silk out of silk caccoons?? i don't know how it works or what was going on... but she gave one of the guys in our group a ball of the stuff... which i'm pretty sure has an insect inside.. and the
jerk ate it?? really?? yeah.. really... he said it tasted "buggy"... here's a shot of the old korean woman spinning it up..
After that... me and buddy kyle dressed up in ancient korean wear and played with swords and stabbed each other for the pictures... and what i really mean about "for the pictures" is that he's dead now... not really.. k.. here's the shot taken by laura...
Moving along here... here's a shot that looks like the opening of the flickr webpage... "welcome to flickr !"... it's a shot of a korean woman who is selling pottery... they had tons of pottery and
laura could only think that her father would be in Heaven there :)... if you're reading this and want more pottery shots.. e-mail me and i'll send them to you Mr. Deyarmond... k.. here's the lady.... in the middle... lauras on the right ... obviously having fun... there'll be a pic of her having even more fun in my next blog.... omg shoes !... you'll see..
We spent the rest of the day playing on random swings... jumping rope and playing arrows with little kids... now.. you're thinking... what the heck are you doing jumping rope with little kids??and.. what is arrows?? i don't know.. there's just
something funny about doing anything with little kids who can't communicate with you... and arrows is an ancient korean game where you throw real arrows at these little metal things that form three small hopes... had to be there.. really dangerous....
Okay.. then if that wasn't enough... there were performances.. this is a few shots of a dance party team or something... they broke dance and smashed bells together with ribbons... it became kind've annoying after awhile....
And another shot
Then... there were the
se girls who did the splits and flips like 40 feet high springing off of a giant see saw... they w
ould each jump like 10 times it was pretty ridiculous... here's my best shot i spiced up a bit..
As you can see from that shot... koreans love their cameras too... so i'm right at home so to speak...
Next... there was a 60 year old man (guesstimate) who tight rope walked with an asian fan.... now.. i know what you're thinking... 60 years old? i couldn't do that NOW!!?... read ... 60 years of experience... he not only tightrope walked.. but sat down
on the rope and bounced on it jumping... he was just
nuts... here he is...
And another shot of him below... when he got tired... ....... he thought it was a good idea to sit
criss cross apple sauce on a 2 inch rope... crazy not to right?
Alright.... next there was a horse show where young korean guys did gymnastic moves on horses running in a circle at a pretty fast speed....
No wonder they always win the pommel horse event at the olympics.. asians practice on actual horses... moving at very high speeds... the pommel ain't got nothing on them...
Aaaaand if that wasn't enough... they stood up on the horses and rode off into the sunset... korea is nuts!!!
Okay.. that took me about an hour to upload all of that stuff .. probably cause i don't know how to manage the pics properly.. but either way... don't expect another post until the weekend.. it'll be about the nightlife in korea ... we've been out a few times... and there's quite a bit of unusual things... and unfortunately i'm missing a good friends b-day tonight... (you've gotta pick your nights).. but we're going out Thursday and moving to our places in Busan/Pusan on Friday afternoon... so you can look forward to seeing some nightlife stories.. and then after that.. my new shoebox of an apartment post.... bye for now...
