Pictures from Busan, Gwangju and Seoul.

Elvis outside the Texas bar.  Apparently all things from the South are from Texas.  I have seen this exact statue in several cities actually.  I'll try and put up some more pictures of him.

Just an idea of which beers I was able to choose from at the Texas Ice house.  Alex was really self conscious about his receding hairline, so I figured I'd leave it in the picture like the good friend I am.

A side view of a lantern palace gate in Seoul.

A blurry picture of a light up carriage.  The line for these things was like twenty deep, and the horses were tiny and overworked.

Front view of the palace gate lantern/structure.

There was a couple of lantern guards in front of the palace gate,  also there were little pools of water along the middle of the walkway.  We were up on the side looking down and in, thereby avoiding the line that literally stretched for one or two city blocks.

Some lantern people and their lantern things.  I honestly expected to see them start moving at any second.  They were very well done.

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong.  Can you drink a whole can of Dr. Pepper by the time I finish this song?

"Pepero" is what the box says.  These are the variety that are pretzel filled with chocolate.  Most I have seen have chocolate on the outside.  The arrangement of them in a line looks like sticks, or ones, so they designate the day 11-11 to give pepero to people you like.  I got a couple of boxes out of pity I think, but I ate them with full voracity.  It is a completely manufactured holiday, much like blurnsday or the three days of kitten juggling that come right after Halloween.

Who is this handsome devil?  Hope you like it, because it will probably be gone right after Christmas.

Have you S-oiled your car recently?  If not, why not drop by  my local car repair place and S-oil it today?

My Dr. Pepper at the Lemon Table.  In the background is a typical bottle of Jinro Soju, preparing itself to be downed.

Anyong Koyangi!  This little guy was at the place I went to called "cat & coffee."

Another cat at the coffee place.

Same guy from the first photo, plotting his escape.

Up top you can see the cat just hanging out.  The window is where you order your coffee, and the cats  pretty much climb everywhere in the place.

John Smith III trying to poke a cat in the eyes.

Graham Leans hookah that he had shipped from Lebanon.  "Free shipping to anywhere.  Israel excluded" was the deal online.

Just a couple of cats on the wall of the bathroom of our local Hof.

The students told me I looked like this guy.  I checked out the rest of the book and its a story about this little wooden puppet who lives in a town of puppets.  He is told not to go up on the hill, but eventually he does and meets this puppet maker.  I am pretty sure it is a metaphor for God.  It also strikes me as funny because a few of the students have told me that my beard makes me look like God.  Good times.

A foggy street in Gamgok.  

The soccer field right outside my apartment.

I had to guess these girls costumes in Busan.  "Miss Canada and a flamingo!"  Let's just say the woodpecker was mad at me for the rest of the night.

A saffer, a limey and an Irish lass walk into a bar.

The design that the Zimbab painted on my face.

The two coolest South African dudes I know.

Lasers in between fireworks.  The screen was on a boat floating in the middle of the river, and just showed the fireworks all night.

More lasers.  

The initial view of the fireworks show from the top of the building where we were drinking.

My awesome view of the fireworks show from inside the pub.

It rained really hard while we were up there, so we just packed up our stuff and moved into a bar.

Me and my orientation leader Chris.

Me trying to make the shot better by pulling down the rope.  

Yes.  That's what I was looking at while the fireworks went off in the distance.  Lucky me got a view of the back of some dudes head.