Highlights of my Day... Monday, April 19

1. Packed up the car for yet another road trip adventure, adventure number two in the past three days, cool. Today’s destination was Daejon to see the cherry blossoms.

2. A major company in Daejon (KT&G) hosts a rather large cherry blossom festival every year, as do many other places in Korea, but their company grounds are loaded with trees like none other! The actual festival was this past weekend but they’re still allowing people to come in and enjoy the trees.

Snickers picked the flowers...

... ate the flowers

... sat among them (and got his pants stuck on the tree trunk I should add)

... and he even played limbo with them.

I quite liked it when he shook the heck out of the branches and gave me a shower of cherry blossom flower petals.

3. What I didn’t enjoy however were the outhouses. Leave it to Snickers to think it’s funny to open the door while I’m on a sqwatty-potty (spelling?!) and then trip, leaving the door open for all to see. Ya, thanks. I sought out revenge by jamming the door handle while he was in there, making him inhale the nasty fumes. Payback baby!... hahaha.

4. The cherry blossoms were so beautiful and there were just so many of them!!!

5. No simple leisurely activity is experienced without a good handful or two of silly games or horse-play when Snickers is involved. First it was the massive shower of cherry blossom petals he gave me by jumping up and shaking the tree branches. Next it was playing limbo with the branches, followed by numerous other things like rolling in the dried grass and one-leg races.

6. Our silliness worked to create quite a hunger between the two of us so on our route home we stopped off at a street side vendor and bought mandu. We sat in a local elementary school courtyard and ate it while little kids played.

7. With our bellies now happy but one mandu left, Snickers called out to one of the little kids who had been playing alone. I was shocked to watch as the kid, no older than 7, approached us, accepted our mandu, and then walked away eating it. “This would never go down in Canada” I told Snickers. I certainly feel a lot safer in Korea than I do in Canada. The mentality of the people here is just so different. Kids freely walk from place to place without the need for an adult and they’re not intimidated when an adult approaches them. Whether it’s because of perverts, child molesters, or dangers that come with being out among traffic, Canadians have such a strong fear installed in them with regards to their children. I was never allowed to accept candy from strangers let alone talk to strangers and here was this little Korean boy eating my left over mandu the size of his fist after he had bowed to thank us for it. What a difference in countries, in cultures!

8. Returned back to Ggum Guum just in time for our 5pm nap time.

9. Woke up and off to boxing we went. With Panty Boy Jr.’s fight but less than two weeks away, Snickers’ training intensity has leaped to another level as Panty Boy Jr. tries to cram in all the sparring he can. Oddly enough, I totally envy Snickers for this too. I wish I was pushed to such intensity with training besides the self push I give myself.

10. Tomorrow I have an early morning meeting and am scheduled to make sure I’m out the door by 7am… ouch!!! So much for trying to get a good night’s rest for my meeting too, Snickers was a little Miss Chatty tonight at bedtime.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What is beautiful to you?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
-- Havelock Ellis