Halloween in Itaewon- Pictures!

I know Lisa loves pictures. Here are some.

Halloween in Itaewon

So I went to Seoul for Halloween. I didn't even know if they would be celebrating it. But my birthday was on a Monday this year (same as Marcus Lattimore, get well soon), so I decided to go the weekend before. My friend was talking up Itaewon, the foreigner district of Seoul, as a really cool place. Itaewon is quite different. A lot of people don't like it. But I live in a small town, so seeing other foreigners is pretty fun for me. I don't know if I'd want to live there but it's nice being able to go to a bar and get a beer without getting smashed on Soju or ordering some expensive side dish.

We were supposed to take the early bus. So, as planned, I woke up at 6:30. My friend didn't wake up until 10. We didn't leave until 11:30 because the 10:30 tickets were sold out. Not a good start. So we get to Seoul and meet our other friend. He's an older guy, but he lived in Seoul for a while and knows his way around. By the time we got to our hostel, it was already around 5 PM. So we said whatever, let's go drink.

We went to Rocky Mountain Tavern first. I was not impressed. The food was pretty shit, and the service was also shit. Drinks were ok. But their version of Jagerbombs was apparently Irish Car Bombs. I was trying to get pumped up, not drink more beer!

Anyways, we left there and wandered around. I got a bunch of pictures of costumes. Most of the people half assed it just wearing a mask or little light up ears that they sold on the street, but I was impressed with how much effort some people actually put into their costumes. I was wearing my manbuk hat, which means "mentally unbalanced" in Korean, and Korean people always get a kick out of my hat.

After wandering around, we went to a club called BOne. It was awesome. The ratio of girls:guys was like 3:1 thank god. But you know me, I just dance by myself. I was definitely famous in there of course. I danced on the stage a few times. But my friend isn't a big dancer, and he wanted to go outside for a smoke. We were going to go back in, but decided to do other things. Eventually, we ended up at a talking bar. A talking bar is where girls come and talk and flirt with you and you buy them overpriced drinks. It's not a juicy bar, which has hookers. Talking bar is just that talking. But due to some events I was pretty sad at the time. I met a really cool woman and she talked to me and we were talking for a while. We danced and stuff, I taught her the wobble. I don't know why I like the wobble now, it must be the familiarity because I despise that song. I danced Gangnam of course because you can't go out in Korea without hearing that song every hour on the hour. I spent way too much money there but you only have one birthday a year might as well go hard.

So the enxt day was recovery day. We had bus tickets at 9 PM but I didn't want to spend any more money. I bought some books, we wandered around for a while. Overall, just a chill day. But the night was crazy. So far I have been to itaewon and Hongdae in Seoul. Both are pretty different. i will have to go to Gangnam next.

Mountain

I've never lived near the mountains. So I thought this picture was cool. Took it this morning right outside of my apartment.

Hill Park

                                 This is a short video of the port in action. Typical small town Korea. Those little trucks are everywhere.

                                 Sorry about the finger in the shot. This is a little gazebo                                          in the park.

                                 Some kind of boat floating through the harbor.

                                 A cool dolphin mosaic.

                                 Looks like some kind of Orthodox church? I will have to explore further.

                                 Not sure what these are, they must be waiting to load cargo or something.

                                 That lighthouse doesn't seem very useful.

                                 So pretty. I've never lived in the mountains before.

                                 Exercise equipment. They have these in most of the parks. Mostly old people use them and they go hard. They are probably in better shape than me.


I went walking around a little bit today. A few weeks ago I saw a little park on a hill. I decided to check it out another day. Today was that day. it was really nice and peaceful. I could see most of the city from the summit.