Thursday, July 30, 2009

Only at a baseball game in Korea.....

Yesterday we woke up and headed to the Busan aquarium.  They had tons of animals from fish, to penguins, sharks to eagle rays.  We were able to walk around and read all of the info that was in English.  After we walked around the beach and enjoyed the nice day.  

Then we headed to the Lotte Giants baseball game.  Lotte is a company here that owns high end department stores such as Nordstroms to Koreas version of Target.  We had great seats, upper deck behind home plate thanks to this lady.  We we arrived the seats were filled and we were sitting on the steps.  She grabbed us and let us sit next to her.  We have learned that the Busan fans are unlike any other group of fans in Korea.  They go insane for the Giants.  They have a cheer or a song from everything to a home run to a walk.  Only at a baseball game in Korea can you bring in your own drinks, dried octopus, and the standard fried chicken.  Apparently fried chicken is our hot dog.  It is sold everywhere from outside on the streets to vendors roaming the bleachers.  Towards the end of the game bags were passed out which the fans proceeded to fill with air and put on their heads.  It was quite a game.

Today we took it easy.  We woke up and went to the beach.  We were able to rent chairs and relax.  After we headed to the Busan Tower which overlooks the ocean and part of the city.  On a clear day you can see a Japanese island.  We stopped at a "Latin" place for dinner.  We use the term Latin very loosely.  You couldn't get tacos or a burrito but you could get potato skins and chile paste pasta with seafood.  

Tomorrow we are headed back to Pohang! 

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