Climbing up a Mountain, about to stop by a Monastery on the way up.
Silly poses at the palace in Seoul.
Another hilarious thing happening while they were here was children’s day, which is basically a free holiday for everyone else. The day before though, my school did a Halloweenesque fashion show. Here were some of my favorite costumes:
Billy as a Chinese warrior getting his anime dragonball Z poise on.
Shine and Newton both 4 as a Tiger and Dog respectably.
Tom as an English Guard with an AK-47. Nice.
Ryan as a english guy twirling a hat.
Crab people. Walk like crab talk like people.
Kent as a Panda. Probably my favorite costume.
Brian taking a bow. The English were really represented in this show.
So, the title of the post was life in a box and this was in part titled because I live in a small one room apartment, but also because we took a trip to the beach and we literally lived in a box. Went to the islands out west of Seoul, which I think are in the East China Sea, and while beautiful it was not exactly what you would think a beach trip would be like.
So, my girlfriends joke is “Call me a snob, but when I go to the beach I think of water.” We get there and there is a mud flat for about a half mile out into the sea. It’s also pretty remote and there are no true hotels there, so we have to rent a box on stilts to sleep in (hence the title). After the initial shock it ended up being a great weekend. There were a couple big groups of foreigners there, and we just laid down a towel and acted like we were part of the group. It was funny the last day we were there someone asked us who we knew and after an awkward pause we just said we knew each other and laughed about it.
The rows of boxes. There were about 50 total. All they had on the inside was two pillows 4 blankets and a kind of squishy floor. Thankfully, we had enough to drink we didn't notice.
Good ol' number 25.
Walking around on the mud flats.
The locals playing with some starfish.
