Weekend in Anmyeon-do (안면도에 보냈던 그주말...)

The first weekend of November saw us head down to Anmyeon-do for the weekend along with some of Sunme's elementary school friends. I think they were planning a night of hard drinking and reliving old times but the fact of the matter is that we're all the wrong side of 30 and most of us have children so it was rather sedate.

Nothing in my life is ever simple and so it proved as we set off for the weekend. We were supposed to be going down in two cars, meeting at our house in Bangbae with a start time of 10am but a phone check at 9:30am showed car number one just leaving Bundang and the occupants of car number 2 still in bed in Paju. The Bundang bunch arrived around 10:30am but my brother-in-law who had been out drinking the night before was now in the middle of a row with his wife about how irresponsible he is (I'm on her side in this case). In order to save time, I sent car number one on its way and told my b-i-l to meet me in Kasan from where we could drop straight down to the highway to the West Sea. I got to Kasan at the arranged time but guess what, my b-i-l still hadn't left Paju 'cos his wife was now refusing to go. To cut a long story short, I sat drinking coffee for another 2.5 hours before they turned up but even when he did turn up, he was so hungover that I drove...

Sunme and the kids had arrived mid-afternoon and had fun playing on the beach (which I suppose is probably covered in oil these days). I got there just in time to bundle out of the car and take some photos of the sunset... Then it was time to bbq us some dinner...charred meat, yummy! The next day dawned bright and sunny, the kind of say that makes you glad to make the effort to get out of Seoul... There was just enough time to have a walk round the headland... and play a round of putting golf... before we went off to eat some prawns.