Bob & Pam Visit Busan....Tokyo... and now they're Engaged !!! :)

First of all I'd like to congratulate my brother and his girlfriend Pam on their recent engagement... I'm really excited for the wedding and he couldn't have picked a better girl to be his wife... Nowwww.. what did we get up to while they were here?? We went to the fish market... a baseball game... which ended up being a brutal experience... and showed them around Pusan National University area... The rest of the week... we gave them pointers on where to go and what to do... because we were in school... At the end of the week.. they came to lunch with my fellow co-workers....

Here's some pics...



Here they are riding the subway... pretty exciting if you ask me... We just went to PNU this day and did some window ... or lack or window.. shopping.... and ate some treats that the locals were selling... Nothing really crazy....




I think I might have posted this before... but I realy liked this ladies worker hands... She splits up food like this for about 16 hours a day... everyday... just down the road from our apartments...



Here's a pic of Laura and them in the PNU area where we just browsed around waiting for the baseball game to start...



We found an arcade and just took a look inside... and the stereo-type is true... asian kids are amazingly good at video games... I took this picture trying to show how fast his hands moved.... It hardly does it justice.. I'd say he hit about 8 buttons a second for minutes on end... it was ridiculous.. ..




We soonafter headed to a baseball game to watch the Lotte Busan Giants get worked by LG.... Here's a dance performance put on in front of the stadium... These guys are dressed as bottles of liquor.. just having great time :)...




Panorama of the stadium in Busan....




Here's a shot of the crew ready to watch the game... but it's getting really cold and windy before the first pitch is even thrown...





Good thing Bob's found some beer to keep him warm :)




Cluck-cluck-cluckaaaaa!!!!



The main reason we wanted to take them to the game was that... the last time we went... we sat in the cheering section... This is where they have a full cheerleading team.. with band... and different songs for every player up to bat...
It's the roudiest crowd ever at a baseball game and really fun to see everyone eating squid as a snack and wearing orange bags on their heads for rally caps... unfortunately.. those tickets were sold out.. and we watched the game anyways... it was cold... windy.... and they got beat like 12-4 or something... the pitcher walked 6 guys the first inning !!!




They even ran into eachother and the wall trying to catch a long bomb thrown out by LG.... the ball is on the ground GUYS!! figure it out...


We went out that night for some shabu shabu (japanese raw beef dipped in a delicious red vegetable soup... which cooks the meat)and had a few drinks at a local bar... It was a really nice relaxing night...



The next day we went to Jagalchi fish market to show them the fish... It wasn't as busy as when I went during the week and they were sold out of the monster fish I had seen earlier in the year.... Here's a picture of when it's "not" too busy....




Bob & Pam hanging out at the stanky fish market....




Some fishies hanging by their tails....




Crab people crab people.....




Me and lovely Laura hanging by the harbour front :)




Some ajumma slanging tiny fish's... i wonder who eats these little guys??



Here's your answer.. these old men sit around in circles drinking soju and eating fish all day... neyyyyy sounds like a good time... they're usually playing a really strategic board game that apparently makes chess look like "guess who?"...



The one that almost got away.... this slippery devil made a run for it... too bad he can't run or he might've gotten somewhere other than the cement... idiot...




Bob inside the fishmarket.. where you can buy any fish you want and they'll prepare it for you on the spot.... There were people chopping off the heads of fish everywhere... Bob looks a little freaked out... I liked the background lights here... "bokeh" for a nerd like me...



We went to Nampo-dong a little after to check out the nice area and do some more street shopping... Found this guy making puffed rice on the street...




Here's the finished product....




Some dude walking around painted up and on stilts?? No idea why... same as the chicken headed guy at the baseball game...



Dragon head up top of Nampo Dong...



And a temple hidden behind some Korean engravings....

I'll be posting in a few weeks about our trip to Seoul... I'm trying to spread out the interesting stuff now... we're generally on a day - to -day schedule now... and not doing much exciting stuff...

However... we will be going on a trip to see the great wall in Beijing in the summer... along with a 5 day trip to the island of jeju which is known as koreas hawaii... so I'll have some good updates for next month... take care everyone.. and once again.. congratulations to Bob and Pam Marck!!