Geumchon

 This is how our night started...with Baskin Robbins Belgian Mint Chocolate ice cream and....

 POPPING POPPING BANANA SWIRL! A delicious blend of strawberry, chocolate, and banana ice cream. But wait! What gives the ice cream it's delicious POP? POP ROCKS! It was pretty tasty.

 While we were eating ice cream, these kids in front of us were giggling away - randomly saying "hello" to us. They asked how old we were and we asked how old they were...everyone here seems pretty friendly. Unafraid to talk to Americans. Most of the kids seem eager to want to practice their English - a lot of adults as well.
















 

Last night, after ice cream and our tent adventure (which will be explained in another blog), Jacob and I traveled into Geumchon. We had watched this video and it led us to believe that Geumchon was a must visit location. It definitely was fun. Geumchon is basically the best bar hopping town around. I swear there is a bar on every corner. Not only lots of bars but tons of places to eat. The smells that were coming out of the restaurants made you salivate. Mmmm tasty.

We weren't sure what this picture was supposed to tell us...that it's professional to drink? The little man has a tie and is carrying a notebook - maybe he's a student? Apparently, drinking is a large part of the Korean lifestyle.

Jacob said that this was the most awesome advert ever. "Liquor Beer Cabin" - and, if that wasn't enough awesomeness for you, they put a scorpion in the middle.

I don't know if you can read it very well but the this picture is for Eric. The top of the sign says "Athens". I found Athens in South Korea and it happened to be in the bar hopping area. Haha. I took a shot of Soju for Eric last night!

This is just an example of how crazy Korea driving is. They car to the left is parked half in the road and half on the sidewalk. This is normal and seems to be perfectly accepted here. At least, I haven't seen anyone pulled over for it yet.







Since the buses stop running at midnight and it was getting rather late, we opted to go home and start drinking at the bar across the street. The Hof, as we have named it. We walked into the bar and were introduced to the Korean way of drinking. Since Koreans look at drinking as more of a social thing, bars tend to be on the more Taco Mac side of things. We sat down and the waitress came over, we managed to use broken Korean to ask for Soju and Beer but she wanted us to get something else. She pointed to the menu and, using our detective skills, we determined that she wanted us to eat. We weren't really hungry so we said no but she was pretty persistent on us eating. Thankfully, the table across from us got some sort of meat concoction (we couldn't see it very well from where we were sitting) so we pointed to it and asked her to bring us one of those. Which turned out to be...

Hot dogs and french fries! Basically. It was a little different from regular hot dogs - a spicy hot dog was blue while the plain hot dog was orange - the concept was the same. In the picture are our hot dogs, french fries, my little Soju shot (they bring you a bottle and a shot glass!), and these really hard, slightly sweet popcorns.

This is Jacob drinking his Max beer. He said it wasn't that bad...kinda like Miller.

When they bring you the bottle of Soju, they also bring you a really big mug of water. At first, I didn't understand why as I thought Soju was kind of sweet. Boy was I wrong.

Soju COCKTAIL is sweet like juice. Soju is just alcohol. PURE alcohol. It isn't as bad as taking a shot of Vodka but it isn't as easy as taking a shot of Sake. But it is cheap. I got an entire bottle for roughly 3 dollars. In the grocery store, I can get the same bottle for under 2 dollars. Soju is cheeeeeaaaaaap.