I was frustrated to find that many of the pics I took today were grainy and frankly kind of worthless. The one above wasn’t too bad.
Sol is Mihwa’s niece and she attended our wedding in 2007. I was nice to see her again even if we didn’t have much time to talk. She had a western wedding in a church and I would estimate that it was slightly larger than ours at least in terms of the number of people.
You’ll notice that we are wearing our hanbok for the ceremony. At first I was against wearing them as they aren’t particularly comfortable and would require almost a dedicated suitcase just to get them to Korea. Of course I lost that one and we brought them along.
I wasn’t that upset by it as it did give us a reason to use them again. However, I was not impressed to find that I was the only male at the wedding wearing one. Every other guy was in a suit and comfortable even though I had seen some of them wearing their hanbok at my wedding.
“Great. Another reason for the white guy to stand out.”
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And so begins the process of sorting through over 800 pictures from the trip. Saturday night was the first time I slept properly since we got back. The jet lag is so much harder to deal with when you are returning.
We had a great time and covered a lot of ground by car. I’ll be sorting the pictures as I go and posting some of the good ones in the coming days.
Day 1 was a travel day and the flight was pretty good; bumpy at times but mostly fine. Korean Airlines was really good. I’d say better than Singapore Airlines and about equal to Japan Airlines.
Mihwa’s brother picked us up at the airport and Mom and Dad were with him. We drove into Seoul and had a nice dinner together. I would have been happy to just go to the hotel and crash but we did need to eat.
The Co-op residence was a disappointment. Really dirty and not at all like some of the others we’ve stayed at. The room was the same layout but inside and out was pretty bad. We changed rooms in the morning and got a better view for our troubles.
Day 2 was the wedding. Stay tuned.
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Do you ever get the feeling that some businesses don’t watch their competition too closely? Last weekend we wanted to rent a car. National, my normal rental place, wanted $78 a day. “Hmmm… why so expensive?” On the Easter long weekend, we paid ~$40 a day so I checked out a few others rental sites.
Avis was in the $50 range and Budget was around $43. Guess who I rented from even though it was inconvenient? I’m not sure how National figures they can charge so much more when their competition aren’t.
In any event, we had a nice day trip in our deluxe Hyundai Elantra Touring. Brunch in Horseshoe Bay and then off to Whistler. Being in Whistler on the long weekend was like being on a college campus. To be fair it’s not the place to go when you don’t have any plans apart from wandering the village. After an hour of walking around and a pair of ice creams, we were wondering why we came. At least the drive was nice…
The car was really nice even though it was the base model. Tons of air bags, lots of room and ver comfortable. The only negative was that it was a bit gutless. Not so much gutless; the problem is that it comes with a retarded confused transmission. It doesn’t downshift when it should, so I do it and then it won’t upshift after the lower gear is no longer required. Odd. In the city it seemed to be fine.
Once we were home, the inevitable conversation started up about us buying a car, this time initiated by Mihwa. We have this conversation from time to time. One of us brings it up and the other vetoes. This is followed in the coming weeks by the same conversation but with the roles reversed. So far, no car.
Do you like buses? This guy does…
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Well, losing interest in blogging took less time than expected. Despite this, I decided I’d better get an April post in. What have we been up to?
Um, we went to Seattle for Easter. Apart from waiting over five hours to get across the Peace Arch, it was an awesome weekend. A beautiful hotel, near all sorts of touristy things and 6-packs of beer for $5 at the corner store. Hard to go wrong, though we did manage to; Bellis Fair sucked.
Upon our return, Mihwa got me a camera for my birthday and I’m so happy with it. It’s a Canon 780IS that shoots HD video, has HDMI out and is smaller than my phone. Nice to have something with me all the time when the people around me are always doing stupid things.
I’m still employed. Enough about that. While contemplating this fascinating turn of events, I stumbled across the most curious cat in Japan.
Lastly, since I’m so insulted that I don’t even get SPAM comments anymore, I will attempt to get a take down notice: feel the fear & do it anyway
Of course, I’d roll over in a second but I’d just like to know if they’re watching everyone or just big, fancy-pants bloggers. “Is this thing on?”
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Nothing really to report but I do have something to populate my now dusted off blog. On their own, they are too much for Twitter and yet not enough enough to warrant posting. If I have to explain all this, you probably know that you should just move on…
I was outside my office deciding where I should go for my afternoon walk one day this week when this old street dude comes up and starts telling me jokes. I’m pretty sure he was tanked but he told me three jokes, two of which were not bad. I told him he needed to work on his delivery for the third one. We wished each other a good day and he wandered off. Didn’t ask me for shit which made me want to give him something…
I frequent the Blenz at Robson and Bute with some regularity. Not enough for anyone to know my name or know what I order but frequently. What the hell is it with the staff in there? I once handed over a $20 bill for a coffee and muffin and had to ask for my change. This week I got my change and muffin but she forgot my coffee. How do you forget the coffee in a coffee house? She explained that it was the third time today she forgot and it was like 8:15…
Like cool music? Love cool music that is free? Love cool free music that the band asks you to freely torrent? Click here Trent Reznor gets it.
Developer: It really hurt when you asked if I was gonna test it this time
Me: Your anguish sustains me
Watching Family Guy pays off in spades…
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