We decided to get a bike for 4 people and we peddled that thing around Olympic Park two times! I have been to Olympic Park before, but I have never explored it in it's entirety. I was able to see all of the gymnasiums and the swimming pool complex as well as the various statues contained within the park. Saturday is a busy day at the park and people of all ages are riding bikes, running, rollerblading and lazying about in the grass. After bike riding we laid in the talking and reading and taking in the sights of the park. Children were having exercise classes and rollerbladers were falling while a group practiced their dancing moves. As the sun began to set we headed out towards Ashley's neck of the woods in Godeok. We had a delicious Pizza Hut dinner and headed to noraebang (or singing room). Generally we seek out a noraebang after a night out and have had a few drinks, but Dani and I convinced Ashley (who isn't a huge fan of singing in front of people) that noraebang can be just as fun sober as it can after a few drinks. We had a blast singing songs together and solo and the man running the noraebang even gave us a free 30 minutes! It was quite late after we finished and we all headed our separate directions.Sunday we decided to check out a baseball game at the Jamsil Sports Complex (where Olympic Stadium is located). I really wanted to go to an LG Twins game because I'm a Minnesota Twins fan and I thought it would be fun to cheer on the Twins in Korea too. Luckily, the Twins had a 3 game series with the KIA Tigers this weekend and we were able to catch a game. We bought tickets for a mere 6,000W and ended up having pretty good seats in the outfield, between 1st and 2nd base. Baseball games in Korea are a bit different from games at home, but the affection for baseball and the teams is very much the same. One thing that struck me as odd, right away, was the lack of a seat number on our tickets. We bought the Yellow-Green tickets which meant we could sit anywhere within the Yellow OR Green sections. We chose Green because we were able to get 3 seats together and it was nice to sit in the outfield. Another difference is the fact
that you can bring in anything you want to the ballpark. People had KFC, Burger King, whole Dominos pizzas and beer and snacks purchased outside the venue. Next time I go I'm bringing a picnic lunch/dinner like most of the Koreans did. Korean baseball is very noisy and the fans cheer on their teams with chants and banging on inter tubes. Each team has different chants and seemingly, each player has some sort of chant. We didn't stay for the whole game as Dani and Ashley aren't huge baseball fans and we were getting hungry. Next time I go I'll stay the whole time as I really do miss going to baseball games. When we left the LG Twins were trailing the KIA Tigers 3 to 1 and I'm not sure who ended up winning. Overall, it was a great weekend and I crossed two things off my to do list! Tomorrow is June, can you believe it? I've been here almost 11 months!
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