Daegu Derby Day

This weekend was one of those rare weekends that we actually had a day together as a family. T ended up not golfing on his normal Saturday golf day (he golfs Saturday, I skate Sunday. No weekend free time.) It also just so happened to be the day that some of my Osan derby team mates were going to be skating with the ROK Derby teams in a scrimmage in Daegu.

Daegu is about 2.5 hrs away by car. If you take the KTX (bullet train) you can get there a LOT faster…but I’m cheap, T likes to drive, and we wanted to be able to get around and do more down there than just ride down, watch, and ride home. So we (we means Thomas) drove down there.

2.5 hrs is a long time 😐 I admit at about an hour in I started second guessing our big family day trip and was ready to find something to do in whatever town we were passing at that moment. “We’re not even HALF way there! Ugh….” Poor Thomas.

But it was worth it 🙂 The kids slept most of the way there which was pretty awesome.

There were some tunnels we went through at some point. Made me miss Hawaii a ton.

Doesn’t it almost feel like you’re on the H3 headed toward Kaneohe? Maybe? A little?

Only when you pop out the other side the clouds don’t part and angels don’t sing and you don’t see the view that you see in Hawaii coming through that tunnel.

We did pass a random little waterfall though. Not that it’s the same at. all.

And some bridges

Korea is kind of pretty 🙂

I liked Daegu.

I like Korea as a whole a lot more now that things are growing and blooming and everything isn’t brown.

Is that a kid in a booster seat in the front? Weird.

Wait…what the…

Awesome

At this point Layla is whining a LOT. She didn’t feel too hot..but thankfully no puke. We needed OUT of that car.

After some Googling on our drive down there I found the Daegu National Museum on lonelyplanet.com

Using Google Maps on our phones we tracked it down and were very thankful to finally be somewhere and not sitting in the car.

I loved it there! This was outside the front of the building. I could live in this little tunnel

The main inside area. I liked the stairs

There was a lot of really neat and REALLY old Korea things there. Ancient pots to more recent (does the 1800s count as recent?) books and clothes. Lots to learn about!

This was pretty neat

Stamps for the designs on the clothes

Lots of neat hair pins and ornaments.

Belt dangly things

A whole section on Buddah and religion

And this is how most of the rest of our time was spent..Layla running ahead and Timmy chasing her.

No Skating –

Finally made it back around to the car

Just thought this was neat. I think I remember a spot in Hawaii where the lanes were split by a median with trees.

Checkin his flip phone

This reminded me of Hawaii too (A lot of Korea does)

These little guys creep me out. Robot flag wavers. Very creepy at night when they just stand there in the dark.

We were sitting in traffic next to a flower shop. Ignore the white blown out flowers 😐

Why wouldn’t a random whale float be driving down the road?

And the whole reason we made the trip to Daegu…

two of our Osan skaters (#11 Bull Lee and #58 Oh Hell No Kitty)

were joining up with the ROKDerby league to skate in their scrimmage.

There are 78 pictures  **HERE** of that if you are interested 🙂