Thank Goodness For A Break

It's been awhile since we got some time off, and Geoff and I were lucky to get a long weekend thanks to Children's Day and our school's anniversary last week. Our friends weren't all so fortunate to get the Friday as well, but we did all get the Thursday. We ended up turning a few rest days into a great weekend.

On Thursday, Will, Onson, Bryan and I played soccer with Woo Min, Jun and their friend, Bo. We went to a local park with some indoor-style soccer courts. We didn't beat the high school kids we were playing, but there're a host of rules and cheap tactics the Koreans use at this court of which we couldn't take advantage.

One is that any time they got the ball in their defensive zone, they simply went to the corner with it, and we HAD TO BACK OFF. Even in our defensive zone, they expected us to give them room when they went to the corner. It was stressful. They also cherry-picked like crazy. I realize there's no offsides, but there's a sense of courtesy and fair play that they didn't care about. Speaking of fair play, one time, their goalie left the box with the ball. When the ball squirted back into the box, a defender ran back and picked it up with his hands, like he was now the goalie. They also played it back to their goalie constantly and the keeper would just pick it right up. I'm not saying we're super good, but I am saying that we play fair.

On Thursday evening, we went out to Guworldong. It used to be one of our favorite squares in which to hang, but we've largely lost interest because there was really a lack of things to do when you can't sit at a table outside in the summer. But there's a new-ish bar there that has super-cheap drinks, as well as some new chicken places and a host of other new batting cages and games and whatnot. We took it all in and had a fun time.

On Saturday, Popper, Kim, Pel and I went to the baseball game to watch Incheon lose to Kia. There were so many people that we had to sit way up in the upper decks. We also got in using some sneaky method through a scalper. We basically followed him in as he showed the gate people already-torn stubs. Very strange. But we got in for 5,000 won each.

On Sunday, we headed to Wolmido to take advantage of one of the few days during the weekend with no rain. It got a little chilly at night, but we had a lot of fun. I took some pictures, but the stupid Microsoft pictures manager decided it didn't want to rename my photos, and simply deleted them. The good news is, we will be making our way back there frequently during the summer. It's so nice to hang out on the boardwalk and listen to the live music and watch the people walk by.

It's going to be a good summer.

See the Wyverns pics here!

Check out Guworldong shots here!