Tuesday, October 5, 2010

A Weekend of Festivals!

Wayne admiring some delicious pork
This last weekend marked the internationaly-known Andong Mask Dance Festival and the unknown Bonghwa Mushroom Festival.  Saturday we met our South-African friends, Wayne and Christy, in Andong to let the festivities begin! We watched some mask dances, laughed at an alligator-duck-man that blew whistles at people, ate pounds of sample food, visited little shops, and ate some spicy chicken feet.  WHAT!?!?!  Yeah, they were as bad as you'd think...



Andong Mask Festival

Bonghwa Mushroom Festival
For all of you Americans reading this...don't worry I upheld the English language in a slingshot competition against Wayne to see if they are called slingshots (which of course they are) or, as he tried to call them, Katties....  Anyway, we let our slingshots do the talking, and the balloons soon came to fear the name of Jesse Williams.


The view from our apartment
We also hit up the Bonghwa Mushroom Festival.  Although it is a lot smaller, it was a lot of fun.  It is right on the river, they have fireworks, a few free games, Bonzai trees, and no chicken feet.

Mushroom Festival River Crossing

3 comments:

  1. How far is Andong from your place? We went two weekends ago - we should have planned better - could have met up w/ you two :) Hope all is well!

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  2. Tristan would like the mushroom festival - if only for the fireworks. :) Sounds like you are enjoying your free time.

    Have you guys started teaching?

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