Dog cafe and mudfest

A couple of weekends ago, Meghan and I went to a dog cafe.  It's a cafe where dogs roam freely and walk on tables, sit in chairs, and get fed lots of treats from customers.  There were about 20 dogs who lived there at the cafe, and then other people brought in their own dogs to play as well.  I just really miss my dog, so it was fun to play with dogs for a little bit.  Most of the dogs were not at all interested in you unless you had treats, because that is what they are used to.  I didn't want to buy any treats because a lot of the dogs who live there were pretty large from all the treats already.  They had a few staff people constantly ready to clean up any messes left from the dogs.  It was a really fun experience and it was nice to see big dogs for once, since it's really rare to see a dog much bigger than a rat on the street.

Waiting for their treats

A Britney Spaniel!  Not as cute as Sally though.

A little puppy someone brought in

This little one came and slept on our table the whole time.

He thinks he's human

Last weekend, a group of my coworkers and I went to mudfest, which is a festival on the west coast that happens every year.  There is a mud section that you pay to get into with blow up slides, mud pits, and other muddy activities.  It was super crowded so we ended up having to wait in line for an hour to go down one slide.  There's also a free mud area where everyone is just throwing mud on everyone else, so I preferred that area because there was no waiting involved.  It was a lot of fun even though we had to cram 10 people into a minbak (like a hostel, but where you sleep on mats on the floor) into a room obviously for 4 people.  My favorite part of the trip was a random street dance party later in the night.  

Mud festival parade we watched from our minbak

So many sailboats all in a row!

When we went out to eat, the woman working there handed us a puppy to hold until our food got there.

This weekend, we went to a hookah bar on Friday called Rainbow bar.  It was a really neat place with different little areas to sit in.  We ended the night with some noraebong (singing room) which is always a good time, and I sang Wonderwall of course:)

Our little hookah area

  

Then on Saturday we had a birthday celebration for Meghan, even though her birthday isn't until August 2nd but we'll all be on break then and in different countries.  We got some delicious hamburgers in Itaewon (the foreign area) and checked out some fun places.  We also walked up "hooker hill" just to see what it was all about, and there were definitely plenty of hookers around in little shops.  It was kinda weird to see that, but hookers are more acceptable in Korea.  

Next weekend, I'm headed off to Jisan music festival to camp out and see Radiohead, Owl City, Motion City Soundtrack, and lots more.  Then we're going to Taiwan for the rest of the week since it's our summer vacation.  I should probably start planning for Taiwan!