Snoop Dogg and Tandem Biking at Bakersfield Park on Children's Day!

Yesterday, Joseph, Monica, Amy, Van, Steven, Andrew, Nina, and I all went to a Snoop Dogg/2NE1 concert being held at the Olympic Park. If you've never heard of 2NE1, they're K-Pop group known for songs like "I Am The Best" and "I Love You" which you can look up on youtube easily :). If you don't know Snoop Dogg, you can look him up too, but he actually played a lot of songs that weren't actually his, so it was a mix all around.

It took place at the Olympic Park east of Seoul. Before the concert, which took place in the Velodrome where the bike racing happens (the concert was open-air), we waited near the big park, some much needed green for Seoul.





The concert started at 7:00 and lasted until about 10:00, after which we headed to Gangnam to a little pub for awhile.

The following day is Children's Day in Korea (and also in Japan). Amy and I got some sandwiches from the Flying Cup and Saucer (go here if you can, btw, it's amazing, and Leona who runs the place is really nice), and went for a picnic at the nearby Bakersfield Park across the main road in and out of Bucheon and Incheon.

Korean people were all sitting in tents for their picnics, so they didn't get sunburned, but we just had a blanket. A lot of little kids were out for Children's Day, and the grass is behind some ropes, but you're still allowed to sit on it, so we looked a lot like a zoo exhibit, and we got a lot of stares, especially from the little kids, because we were really weird and strange.

There's a lot of people on bikes at the park, so after our picnic, we decided to rent a tandem bike. At first we were rubbish and going the wrong way, plus the bike was a bit too small so we looked really silly. Since we were getting laughed at and we were also laughing at ourselves, once we worked out the biking bit well enough we decided to go all out and really put on a show, so we rode round and round the park singing Sound of Music since we were getting stared at any way. At least we made ourselves and other people laugh.

Finish the day off with some lovely Annapurna curry, and it was a great weekend!


It was windy so my hair was a mess. Smart Amy had hers up!


The lake at the park


Sunset in Bucheon, looking towards Incheon


Amy checking out the view


Tandem Bike!


Strawberries, an egg tart, and lovely sandwiches for our picnic


Amy again at our picnic

Well, now I'm caught up, so expect more regular posts as I do more exciting things!

Thanks for continuing to read!
-Sam