Korean-American Friendship Festival

This weekend, the city of Pyeongtaek organized a festival to promote good relations between the Americans stationed in the area and the local Koreans. They called it the Korean-American Friendship Festival and had it in the "Songtan Special Tourist Zone", which is right outside the main gate of the base. Driving home from work last night, I saw that the area was busy and cars were parked everywhere. So, we went out today before I had to work to go see what was going on. When we got to the main strip, the stands were just starting to open. We walked the entire area and looked at a bunch of the stands. Most were food tents serving the usual foods and assorted sojus and beers with some were merchants selling whatever was normally sold at festivals. We even got a coconut to drink out of. Elizabeth didn't really like it. She just ate the chestnuts instead. This was a good way for the family to get out together and get some air and sun. Unfortunately, we had to cut it short because I had to get to work. Oh well. -T

We came across this place that was roasting the entire belly of a pig. That's gotta be tasty.

For lunch, we got Thai food from one of the restaurants that set up a tent for the festival. This "meal" cost 5000KRW a plate, which is just shy of $5. We felt a little cheated because we didn't get that much and the food wasn't that great. The other problem...we got two plates. I ended up eating both. Not satisfied, we walked over to McDonald's to grab chicken sandwiches and nuggets.

After the family picked me up from work, we stopped at the local Baskin Robbins for a little ice cream before heading home.