07 September 2008

noraebang nights (photos from august)

this is a reposting of my fifth facebook album of korea for those not on the site.
 
friday night fun:
hanging out in our apartment
"let's have a photo where we're all laughing!"


jimmy decided to go the safer route in opening the second bottle of sparkling wine after the first nearly took his eye out


nick brought back a beverage from across the border (north korea) for us to sample. in the next few photos are the faces it caused


jana is skeptical


jimmy is horrified


nick is trying not to spit it out


i am disgusted


noraebang!
getting ready/picking out our set list


jimmy had to sing "creep" by radiohead even though everyone else vetoed it


singing to his lady :)


one of a few impromptu thriller dances of the night



franzi came to visit:
we grabbed some street food while shopping in dongdaemun


some of it was sketchy


but we enjoyed our nice snack break


at dinner in itaewon. friends for twenty years!


this was the best burger i've ever had


we took a night cruise on the han river...the weather was perfect and the lights were beautiful :)


the famous 63 building


city glow



seoul forest:
you can climb inside this giant wire man. next time i come here i'm going to play in the legs with the korean kids


beautiful peaceful area near the deer enclosure


sun setting behind n seoul tower


bridge across about ten lanes of traffic


hello little friend


fun, but not water that i'd want to risk falling into


sunset over seoul (taken from the midpoint of a really long walk across the river via highway bridge)


rush hour. this is why bikes are better



a beautiful, random kindergarten-less thursday morning...aka why it's great to be an english teacher in korea


 
venturing up to namsan one evening:
this was the only direction-giving sign i saw besides the one right outside the subway station. in between i encountered a lot of winding alleys, a highway with a tollbooth, and lots of stairs


my ride to the top!


playing with the macro feature on my new camera


this sign made me laugh


city by night


pagoda near the top


view on the ride back down



city hall on a saturday afternoon:
this huge representation of the south korean flag is hiding renovation/construction work on the city hall building


city hall plaza. there was some drama presentation going on...


...fountains to play in...


...and a chili pepper festival, complete with a chili pepper tunnel through which you could walk


spicy little buggers (but only if you bite the seeds by mistake)


seoul museum of art, a short walk from city hall plaza


they had an awesome exhibit on optical illusions. the walls, floor, and ceiling in this room were covered in mirrors, and there were mesh balls of different sizes suspended from the ceiling


the "black hole" room. trippy.


holographic portrait


abstract art exhibit upstairs. konglish finds a home...



hanging out by the han river:
i'm not sure what this giant ruler is for, but it'd be scary if its purpose was to measure water height when the river floods


dusk at the boat launch


olympicgyo (olympic bridge)


night falls on the city



do yeon's birthday:
ceiling filled with balloons at his friend's bar


delicious cake! (thanks jin ho and julius)


helium + speaking in any language = good laughs


blowing out the candles


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