Ewwwwwwww Gross!

Last night I returned to my shoe-box to find an uninvited creature had taken up residency on my wall. I guess I'd never seen a cockroach before. They're huge! And I gotta say I wasn't much of a fan. Trying to psych myself up to squash it proved very difficult. I got more and more freaked out and less and less convinced I could touch it. Then it flew out from the wall straight at my head and it was game over for me. I tried to recruit reinforcements but as luck would have it nobody in my building was home. In the meantime it had scuttled away somewhere and all I could imagine was it dive-bombing me as soon as I entered my room. Thankfully A finally got home we teamed up against the sucker and after a fairly destructive 15 minutes in which my apartment was thoroughly trashed A got him with one of my hikers.

Yuck!

Holy destruction Batman! You can see the remnants of the king kong bug between my shoes and the blue bucket.

Waiting for a Typhoon

July is supposed to be rainy season in Korea. So far there was more rain in June. When B informed me there was to be a  typhoon on the weekend I was pretty excited. Saturday dawned hot and sticky as usual but with a wicked warm wind kicking up some pretty impressive waves. The beaches were jammed with swimmers. The lifeguards had their hands full keeping everybody in the shallow. 

My Saturday night was dedicated to typhoon watching down on the beach. Sadly it came to naught when it rained for a grand total of 5 minutes. Hope was restored on Sunday when we were assured the typhoon would arrive at 4 pm. But again we were thwarted! The lifeguards herded everybody out of the water and all we got was a mere sprinkling. 

I still have hope though maybe next week!

The crowds on Haeundae were out of control! All there to revel in the pre-typhoon waves.

Mud, Mud Glorious Mud

I attended debauchery central a few weekends ago aka The Boryeong Mud Festival. The idea for the festival is fairly enterprising and intended to bring money to the otherwise desolate city on the sea. Fancy spa quality mud is shipped in and set up in various containers and slip 'n slide contraptions. The entire weekend consists of a crowd of young people (mostly foreigners) covered head to toe in mud hanging out on one the biggest beaches in Korea. The ice cream sales were through the roof. Probably so were the beer sales.