This past Saturday was fun. Alex had some friends, Chris and Emily, in town visiting from Singapore. I decided to tag along for a day of fun with them.
First, we visited the base where Alex works and were able to play with helicopters! This is the helicopter I played in. :)
The inside looks very complicated and was definitely cramped. But it was pretty cool to see. There were also many more outside (and inside where we were while they were being worked on).
After playing with the helicopters we headed over for some yummy Korean food for lunch while we made plans for the day. We were heading over to the fish market where Emily and Alex were going to eat Sannakji--or live octopus. Chris was on the fence and I was a definite no. Since I am not even a fan of sea food in general there was no way that I would try something that was still alive.
Eventually we wandered over to the market. I was actually surprised that it was inside--for some reason I had a picture of it being an outdoor thing. So we wandered around looking at rows and rows of...dead and alive animals of the sea.
We eventually came to one booth and the lady asked if we wanted to buy the octopus. We asked where they would prepare it for us and she pointed for us to follow another lady. The second lady took the bag with our snack and we followed her down what seemed like at the time to be a rather long and isolated alleyway/ramp. At the bottom was a restaurant where they prepare whatever seafood was bought at the market and then serve it like they would a regular restaurant. So we all had a seat and waited for them to bring it out to us.
Here is the video of that experience.
After that we had to decide what to do with the...body section. So, brave Alex decided he would give it a try.
Once this was over, we decided to get some real food and then ended the night by playing some card games. Overall quite the day. I guess this is another time when I should never say never.
PS--that was probably the most disgusting thing I have ever done in my entire life.
Eventually we wandered over to the market. I was actually surprised that it was inside--for some reason I had a picture of it being an outdoor thing. So we wandered around looking at rows and rows of...dead and alive animals of the sea.
Here is the video of that experience.
After that we had to decide what to do with the...body section. So, brave Alex decided he would give it a try.
Once this was over, we decided to get some real food and then ended the night by playing some card games. Overall quite the day. I guess this is another time when I should never say never.
PS--that was probably the most disgusting thing I have ever done in my entire life.
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