Month: June 2022

June 25, 2022

This was our third visit to Deokpyeong Dino Park. This time we decided to bring Yunwoo along for the trip. We started the trip off with happy meals at McDonalds. Mason got the Tigress toy and YunWoo picked Shrek.

It was a hot day. I think YunWoo enjoyed the little red train they rode the most and Mason liked feeding carrots to the sheep and goats best. We had pork cutlets at the park. While we were eating, Mason decided to get up from the table and go touch a nearby window. Once he sat back down, Yunwoo decided she would also had to touch the same window. Of course, Mason had to do it again, so that he would be the last one to touch it. A hilarious war ensued that I had to negotiate a cease fire for.

The next day I took Mason to his first movie ever at Songpa Haibo, Jurassic World Dominion. It was PG-13, so I kept asking him if he was scared and he kept saying “no.” He made it almost 2 hours before he got tired, so we didn’t finish, but not bad for his first movie. In the future, we will stick with rated g kids’ movies.

June 18, 2022

On Saturday for brunch Mason and I enjoyed HK’s homemade egg sandwiches at the picnic benches outside Coffee Bay. We were greeted by a white and gold colored stray cat. Mason kept guessing about where he lived and who his owner might be. Korea is filled with great coffee shops. Mason had a sugar-riddled mango, apple smoothie that got him dancing.

After lunch we made our way to Yangpyeong and found a spot by a mountain stream to play and enjoy. We really could have used some aqua shoes, but we made do. On the way back to Eecheon, we stopped at a country school to enjoy their playground and then we had dinner. Mason ate like he hadn’t eaten in a month, we had squid and clams with kalkuksu, along with pork cutlets. The food was fantastic.

On Sunday, HK found a Texas BBQ restaurant in Eecheon that had recently opened. It did not disappoint, and I’m sure we’ll be back. We ended the night with some foot races at the soccer field just up the street from the restaurant, before Mason and I headed back to Seoul to end the weekend.

June 11, 2022

The blog has begun; well, to be honest, we had a false start a few years back, but this is now the real deal. I decided that Mason and I needed a father/son trip, so we headed 2.5 hours east to Mang Sang Beach. It’s by far the biggest beach I have seen to in Korea.

Driving in through the mountains we got hit with a down pour and we thought the beach day was destined to be ruined. But then Mason got out his imaginary poop gun and shot the ominous clouds away. I was skeptical, but it worked – blue skies on arrival.

We ate hot dogs (thanks to Mason’s Mom), built sandcastles, stayed the night at a hole-in-the-wall motel (Mason was adament that this was not a hotel), rode a 4 wheeler we rented from a seedy guide, ate pizza and apple fritters and shot off fireworks. Maybe we spent a little too much time in the sun though since Mason got sick on Monday, but I guess there is always a price to pay.