Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Paddle Boating & Gelato
This past weekend we had the opportunity to spend some time at Yeouido Park. Yeouido Park is on an island in the middle of the Han River...a big island...with lots of the city on it, too. We met up with David and Jerra and decided to explore the park area a little. It was an extremely crowded day! Because it was so nice outside, EVERYONE wanted to be at Yeouido Park...bike riders, roller bladers, soccer players, walkers, runner, S-boarders (see picture below)...and paddle-boaters!
That's right...we were fortunate enough to stumble across a place that rented swan, whale, and ugly duckling paddle boats. Of course, I wanted the ugly duckling one, but when our turn came up, we were shown to one of the beautiful (and life-like) swans :0)
Here's the thing: paddle boats are cool, but if you just paddle around like normal people, they lose their coolness after 4.5 minutes. So, we decided to turn our swan into a bumper paddle boat...much more risky and enjoyable! The funny thing is that none of the other paddle-boaters knew the "bumper" thing was our planned idea. Every time we "accidentally" rammed into someone, we'd bow our heads and say "sorry, sorry, sorry", give an apologetic smile, and then paddle away. Good times. After awhile we decided to push our paddle boating experience even more to the limit and exit the buoyed area into the unknowns of the Han River. Don't worry, we didn't get very far before our Christian consciences made us turn around :0)
After our paddle boating, we walked around some more, and then headed to find some dinner and dessert...Italian gelato, anyone? That's right, we found an excellent gelato store in one of the buildings on the island...a little spendy, but tasty delicious!
Enjoy the pictures!
David, Jerra, and Sam in front of a humongous Korean flag.
We found some beautiful blossoms during our park exploration time.
Here I am learning how to s-board from one of the superstar s-boarding kids. He rolled by and Jerra yelled out, "Can we try?". Surprisingly, he understood us, and let us each have a turn. He was even a trooper and let us use his shoulders as support so we didn't fall...nice kid (oh, and s-boarding is harder then it looks...you would have needed the support shoulders too!).
One of the beautiful and well-planned gardens we saw.
Here's the view from inside our paddle-boat. Jerra and I had a free-ride, while the guys did all the hard paddle work. Target spotted, straight ahead!
This picture was taken after we "accidentally" crossed the buoyed area into un-charted waters.
Just wanted you to see how crowded it was that day!
That's right...we were fortunate enough to stumble across a place that rented swan, whale, and ugly duckling paddle boats. Of course, I wanted the ugly duckling one, but when our turn came up, we were shown to one of the beautiful (and life-like) swans :0)
Here's the thing: paddle boats are cool, but if you just paddle around like normal people, they lose their coolness after 4.5 minutes. So, we decided to turn our swan into a bumper paddle boat...much more risky and enjoyable! The funny thing is that none of the other paddle-boaters knew the "bumper" thing was our planned idea. Every time we "accidentally" rammed into someone, we'd bow our heads and say "sorry, sorry, sorry", give an apologetic smile, and then paddle away. Good times. After awhile we decided to push our paddle boating experience even more to the limit and exit the buoyed area into the unknowns of the Han River. Don't worry, we didn't get very far before our Christian consciences made us turn around :0)
After our paddle boating, we walked around some more, and then headed to find some dinner and dessert...Italian gelato, anyone? That's right, we found an excellent gelato store in one of the buildings on the island...a little spendy, but tasty delicious!
Enjoy the pictures!
David, Jerra, and Sam in front of a humongous Korean flag.
We found some beautiful blossoms during our park exploration time.
Here I am learning how to s-board from one of the superstar s-boarding kids. He rolled by and Jerra yelled out, "Can we try?". Surprisingly, he understood us, and let us each have a turn. He was even a trooper and let us use his shoulders as support so we didn't fall...nice kid (oh, and s-boarding is harder then it looks...you would have needed the support shoulders too!).
One of the beautiful and well-planned gardens we saw.
Here's the view from inside our paddle-boat. Jerra and I had a free-ride, while the guys did all the hard paddle work. Target spotted, straight ahead!
This picture was taken after we "accidentally" crossed the buoyed area into un-charted waters.
Just wanted you to see how crowded it was that day!# posted by Becky @ 9:56 PM 
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s boarding hey? you guys are so cool :) we hope to make it to see the blossoms this weekend... hope you're both well. i (emily) am heading back to canada in one month to take care of my sick mom; trent will be staying here (in wonju) till august. just thought i'd let you know. love em.
Ok, I loved the pics, Bec. Especially the last one where the guy walking by is smiling right at your camera!!! I kept saying to myself what is s-boarding?-I'm a little slow on the uptake-I get it now, of course, after I looked at the picture. The flowers are beautiful-wish I were there for the bumper boat ride!!! Love you, Auntie Sheila xoxox
so much fun! haha. i love it. at first i thought you were bumping into each other...i BUSTED up when i figured out you were bumping into other people. haha. you are so funny! wish i could come and visit again and partake of these fun activities.
love you guys. miss you!
love you guys. miss you!
Seems like Melina is a long forgotten memory and you now have some new friends. I bet they can't play cards as good as me.
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