Wednesday, May 21, 2008

climbing a warmer mountain

very flattering picture of me, i realize.
esther and husband

rice alcohol

the old tree

inside the buddhist temple

green onion pancake thing

back in february, i had gone to Yongmun Mt. with korean hannah. it was absolutely freezing. on saturday, esther called and asked if i wanted to come with her family to the same place. it was much hotter this time. esther, her husband and daughter and i went up the mountain first where i was photographed (again) in front of Asia's 2nd oldest tree. then we looked at some Buddhist temples and then went down.
at the bottom is a typical collection of money making tactics, stores of things to buy, places to eat and...yes, an small amusement park.
we ate some wonderful green onion pancake thing (ok, that's not what they are called but, that's what i called them) and got some forbidden korean rice wine. the salt and spice of the food was a wonderful match to the sweet milky alcohol.

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