this past weekend was the birthday of one of the gimhae ex-pats - kerry. she'll be going home to the UK at the end of february and so wanted to go out in busan to her favourite bar - the fuzzy navel. i wasn't sure if i was going or not since i'm on my way to seoul this coming weekend, and a night out in busan can get expensive... i also didn't want to destroy my sunday by having to recuperate from saturday... we usually get back to gimhae somewhere around 5 am when we go...
but after being persuaded with tales of "a light night out" and "not coming back late" i headed in around 7pm with a bunch of friends from gimhae... we headed to the seomyeon area (of nye dinner fame) to have dinner. we ended up at one of the most kitsch (sp?) (ie. cheesy) restaurants i have ever been to in my life! it was called 'gorilla':
that's one of the waiters... the food was pretty good. kim and i shared a plate of fried rice with cheese and a big chicken salad with kiwi (!) dressing. the boys had different varieties of spaghetti... poor bill ordered a pork cutlet that ended up being covered in a sauce containing soya - which he is allergic to - and didn't feel so hot for a while... then we headed to the fuzzy navel.
with much calling around and asking for directions, we still couldn't find the place. we finally got hold of someone at the bar who volunteered to come get us... by this time there were about 10 of us, as we'd met up with a bunch more gimhae-ens. we got to the bar after 10pm - i knew then that my dreams of a light night were out of the question... oh well... not reason to not have fun!
the bar was nice, they had a pool table, a fooseball table and a giant dance floor. there were a ton of waegooks there celebrating kerry's b-day and a good time was had by all... they also served gin and tonic - my drink of choice - so it was a really great night.
kim was playing fooseball with dave for a lot of the night... notice the table has lime and corona for players? i love it.
we spent a lot of the night on the dance floor too. this is bill and the lasers... thought it was a great shot... the best of the night actually... i thought i took more pics, but they aren't very good... so these will have to do. sorry. anyway, our light night turned out to be until around 4am when bill, lauren, and i, cabbed it back to gimhae... sunday was spent recuperating... so much for climbing another mountain... it'll have to wait til i'm back from seoul...
this week i'm teaching grade two winter camp... so posts may be few and far between as it really isn't that exciting... next week i promise full disclosure on seoul!
but after being persuaded with tales of "a light night out" and "not coming back late" i headed in around 7pm with a bunch of friends from gimhae... we headed to the seomyeon area (of nye dinner fame) to have dinner. we ended up at one of the most kitsch (sp?) (ie. cheesy) restaurants i have ever been to in my life! it was called 'gorilla':
that's one of the waiters... the food was pretty good. kim and i shared a plate of fried rice with cheese and a big chicken salad with kiwi (!) dressing. the boys had different varieties of spaghetti... poor bill ordered a pork cutlet that ended up being covered in a sauce containing soya - which he is allergic to - and didn't feel so hot for a while... then we headed to the fuzzy navel.with much calling around and asking for directions, we still couldn't find the place. we finally got hold of someone at the bar who volunteered to come get us... by this time there were about 10 of us, as we'd met up with a bunch more gimhae-ens. we got to the bar after 10pm - i knew then that my dreams of a light night were out of the question... oh well... not reason to not have fun!
the bar was nice, they had a pool table, a fooseball table and a giant dance floor. there were a ton of waegooks there celebrating kerry's b-day and a good time was had by all... they also served gin and tonic - my drink of choice - so it was a really great night.
kim was playing fooseball with dave for a lot of the night... notice the table has lime and corona for players? i love it.
we spent a lot of the night on the dance floor too. this is bill and the lasers... thought it was a great shot... the best of the night actually... i thought i took more pics, but they aren't very good... so these will have to do. sorry. anyway, our light night turned out to be until around 4am when bill, lauren, and i, cabbed it back to gimhae... sunday was spent recuperating... so much for climbing another mountain... it'll have to wait til i'm back from seoul...this week i'm teaching grade two winter camp... so posts may be few and far between as it really isn't that exciting... next week i promise full disclosure on seoul!
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