Happy New Years (and the beef patties, banana bread and puppy parties)

Apologies for the lack of updates. I don't know what's harder around these parts... teaching English to really low-level students or trying to get Dawna to put up a blog post. ANYWAY, Dawna and I have been super busy as of late. We've celebrated a birthday, booked tickets to Tokyo for the Lunar new year, took care of our dogs, worked and have generally had very little time/energy to throw up a blog post. In the wee hours of the night, I actually feel some motivation, so here's another picture/video update of the past few days.

So for New Years 2008, Dawna, Alex and I decided to venture off to Busan... home to South Korea's second biggest city and a place where there's generally more happening. We hit up Vinyl Underground as we've heard it's pretty popular with foreigners around New Years time. It was also nice that it was a dance club because the whole world knows how much I, Gilad Cohen, love to dance. All sarcasm aside, Dawna and Alex were feeling the dancing so we went there. Pretty cool place but we were under the impression that they'd be playing Hip Hop. It was all big-time house.. constantly. We got there around 11pm-ish and stayed till nearly 5am. We were cheap and didn't want to rent out a hotel/motel room so we had no choice but to party until the early hours of the morning until the bus station reopened and we could head back to Masan. Anyway, here's some pictures/videos of that night. Oh yea, before the club, we found a really nice Italian/pasta restaurant. The food was quite good... it was refreshing to have something that resembled authentic western/Italian food.


I had some fetuccini (Dave W will make a reference here, i'm sure), Dawna had a nice salad, and Alex had some seafood pasta. We were so happy to get the food that we forgot to take pictures of it. All we got a shot of was the garlic bread.


Alex awaiting the food.


We did manage to get shots of the empty plates though.


One of those pictures.


Dawna showing off that new haircut.


Walking the streets looking as GQ as possible... trying to find how the heck to get to the club.


In the Busan subway... Alex looking... well... Alex.


Dawna showing off the model poses.


At a bar, before the club.


Alex thinking about which drink to order.


Half an hour later, he decides .. Hite Beer (the only thing he ever drinks).


Dawna and Alex.


Now at Vinyl Underground.


Alex and Dawna.


Posing for the camera.


Gilad looking as much as The Killers as possible.


You know you look good on the dance flo.


Uh huh.


Paparazzi shot of Gidawnalad.


What the inside of Vinyl Underground sounded like.


... and then we celebrated Mikyoung's birthday. Went to Long Life (the place with the REALLY LARGE drinks) and followed that up by spending a few hours in the karaoke bar.


Dawna and the birthday girl.


Kosta striking a pose.


Chris and Mikyoung doing their coupley-heavy-metal-thing.


Us doing our Dani-California-thing.


Them doing their "we-scored-100-percent-on-this-song-and-have-to-remind-everyone-all-night-thing"


I. Am. Really. Tired.


Dawna and Alex taking it all in.


Chris making a tamborine seem so cool.


Gilad ponders, "crap, I hope our dogs are not destroying our apartment right now."


Dawna shows off new haircut as Gilad shows off his new sweater.


House of Glory, pay attention to the names of the James Brown songs.


And while we're on this giant picture frenzy, here's a few more. The other day, we took Lincoln out for his first ever walk. Here we are at the park.


Uh, me walking the dogs. Them sniffing the grass.


Dogs doing what dogs do when they're being walked.
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And then there's our dogs being cute... this is obviously becoming a staple of every post.


Lazy Sunday.


We had a puppy party the other day... Alex was dogsitting two dogs... we brought them over. Here I am buried in dog.


The dogs, especially Deva, having a good time.


And finally, I spent a few hours cooking yesterday. We were really craving beef patties but Korea doesn't sell them... so I made them from scratch. They actually turned out really nice.


Wishing there were more.


Really wishing there were more.


And while I was at it, I decided to bake some banana bread from scratch as well. Turned out really good too.


Alright, there you have it. An excuse to not have to blog again for a while. I bet the next blog post DOESN'T come from Dawna.

- Gilad