Last night I hosted a going away party for Craig and Scott, good friends and dart teamates. They are leaving for Canada in a few days and will most definitely be missed.
So we ate a lot of food and drank to excess. I guess we all got a little loud as well, because around midnight a downstairs neighbor politely asked us to shut the hell up. From what I can recall, we had a good time.
The menu included galbi, shrimp, sausage and cheese, garlic bread, chips and dip, cherries, veggies, rice…
…ribeye steaks, corn-on-the-cob, watermelon, pecan pie, puchingae (Korean pizza), homemade potato salad (courtesy of Scott and Illhee) and of course, kimchee.
We drank lots of beer, soju, maechui (Korean plum wine) and some Scotch whiskey. We were all pretty wasted after that all got mixed together in our warm bellys.
I took some more pictures, but apparently had my finger over the lens or something (I can’t imagine why I did that). This one came out given that it was taken relatively early in the night…
That would Scott, Wan Jun, Craig and Alastier (it’s salmon, not pink). Also present during the evening were Jim, Seung Youb, Lonnie, Illhee and Ji Yeon.
Best wishes for success and happiness to Scott and Craig as they return to life in the Great White North.
What a really nice thing to do for your friends, John. Good on you.
And here’s a fun one – a simple reference for the future, no offense intended – as a former NCO club bartender, yeah really – decades ago in another lifetime, it’s Scotch whisky, not whiskey (check your label)…. and while we’re at it, if served by someone from Scotland, he/she’s a Scot, not Scotch.
And what’s even more confusing is for some reason all the other whiskey’s are whiskey.
Here’s a fun article on the subject: http://thepour.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/whiskey-versus-whisky/
Thank you John…That was a great time. I’m glad that the smorgasord of goodies is immortalized in pictures. A fine meal indeed. I think it is the understatement of the year to say that we are going to miss you guys, and that certainly life in Korea was a hell of a lot of fun because of the Blue Bulls and the rest of our friends and competitors in the SIDL.
What VJ said.
I can’t even recall how I enjoyed life and such in Seoul before meeting all you guys in and around SIDL.