Month: August 2022

August 21, 2022

Mason’s first professional baseball game. Well, really it was his second. We took him to a game when he was 2 years old, but we only lasted a couple of innings. It was the subway series (Mets vs Yankees) of Seoul, Lg vs. Doosan.

HK and I had always been partial to LG, but when Mason saw Doosan last week on TV he was convinced that was his team. So, we have officially abandoned LG (who happens to be the best team in the league this year) and jumped on the Doosan train.

We had seats one row behind the outfield wall, so Mason got the chance to try and talk the right fielder out of his warm-up ball in between each inning. No luck. I was asked the score by Mason around 73 times (hahaha).

We had a corndog, ice chips, beer (only me) and potato chips – all in all – not the healthiest outing but tons of fun for sure. Go Doosan!

August 11-14, 2022

We planned our summer vacation during the busiest time of the year for a vacation in Korea. On Thursday, we stayed in Wonju at the Orchid Hotel. The Spa Suite was fantastic, and we had some of the best food I have ever eaten in my life. The highlights were: of course, the room, but also swimming in the infinity pool in the rain, the ribs that night, the next day’s lunch (beef rolls) and playing in the Wonju’s public waterpark.

Mason and I got to Mangsang around 6pm the next day (HK had to work). Lotteria only was selling bulgogi burgers at Mangsang Beach, so we opted for pizza. The sunset was memorable, almost on the level of Boracay, but not quite. We stayed at the Golden Beach Hotel (motel) and watched the Doosan Bears lose on TV before Squirtle fell asleep.

The next day we played on the beach and Mason got in the ocean for the first time ever. When Paul and Haven arrived in the early afternoon, we all headed to the East Coast Energy Hot Springs Hotel and Convention Center’s pool (whatta name). Mason loved it. That night we stayed in Pyeongchon, ate samgyupsal, met an ornery Russian, and had a foot race that resulted in a fat lip for Mason, but also some extra ice cream. Board games that night might have been Mason’s highlight of the entire trip. On the next day, we went back to Mangsang Beach with Paul and Haven.

We eventually made it back to Seoul that night (11:02 pm), after a memorable rest-stop experience. We had the time of our lives.

July 30th & August 6th, 2002

Everland was packed when we arrived around 11, so we were forced to park in the furthest parking lot and take the transfer bus (3 trees was our space marker). It was very hot, so I was very concentrated on keeping us hydrated. We saw the pandas first and then afterwards stopped in a coffee shop (to hydrate and) for HK’s packed sandwiches washed down with a mango shake.

Highlights of the day: supersoaker park, the tiger & bear bus safari (waited 30 minutes in line, but our hand fan kept us cool enough), Mason won a little dinosaur (actually he lost and the staff gave it to him for free because they thought he was cute), we ate bugers and I won the basketball game (prize = enormous wolf-looking ball), but for Mason the best part of the day I think was the shark he bought at the gift store on the way out (very slick placement by Lotte).

Classic summer Saturday at Sadongrhee the next weekend: samgyup, swimming and a sunset.