PICTURES Part Deux!

Yup, more pictures....

oooohhhh, Valet parking... how exclusive... not really... right now 1,000 won is about 75 cents... but this kinda deal is every where, not just upscale places like California Pizza kitchen (if my students read this I doubt they could glean the sarcasm!) At a nice place you might have to pay a whopping 2,000 won... or a buck fifty... Of course some people tip the guy, but I don't think I would, there isn't much of a tipping culture here in Korea... but its almost impossible to park your car so valet parking as an absolute necessity.

Yay! A real American Breakfast... kinda. John found about about this place... it was called "I'm Fresh!" isn't that just so cute? Well they make everything from scratch, right when you order it, so it takes like 25 min to get your food, but they make a nice breakfast. I got an omelet with cheese and veggies and a side of TERRIBLE pancakes (I should have gotten the toast) and the syrup was not syrup... and they put it in a container with a tiny tiny hole, so it took FOREVER to get enough syrup on the pancakes to cover the taste of too much baking soda!

John got french toast... yes thats what thats a picture of... french toast... it was like they took the bread, dipped it in egg, folded it in half and then fried/baked it... Im not sure, but it was strange, but tasty! He also got some yummy homemade fries... definitely someplace I would like to visit again (I wonder if John reads my blog...)

Please ignore my beautiful friend Grace in the foreground there... she's married! The interesting part of this picture is the two gentle men in the background... can you see them?

Maybe this picture shows it better, again, ignore my buddy Daniel drinking his beer (however he is on the market ladies!) Can you see the men better here? What does it look like they are doing? Arm wrestling maybe? So... whats the big deal about that? I mean dudes are always trying to show how tough they are at a bar!... yeah, except this is Korea... guys really aren't that tough here... and those two older gentlemen are certainly NOT arm wrestling... they are in fact, holding hands... Nope, I'm not in a gay bar! Korean people are a lot more touchy-feely than westerners... women walk around holding hands ALL the time. Men even hold hands (especially when drunk) at the bar you can see one man put his hand on another man's thigh, and thats totally normal... its a friendly gesture here... These two guys kept shouting "FIGHTING" which is the Korean way to say "stay strong, chin up, don't give up, you can do it!" So I guess something bad happened with one of the guys and the other is trying to make him feel better (Im not so sure the alcohol is so helpful though... just a cute note on Korean culture.