西洋오랑캐

On the Saturday prior to my wedding, the plan was to have my clan attend a dinner held at the home of my in-laws…so 진희 was made to stay home and cook all day. I headed out to meet up with my family and do some brief sight-seeing. The only problem with this was the fact that it started pouring. So we went shopping instead. During the shopping trip, Ailinn got herself hooked up with a decent Korean-English / English-Korean dictionary, my brother got himself hooked up with a pair of odd Converse sneakers, the likes of which he had never seen Stateside, and I got my aunt hooked up with some ginseng for a friend.

In addition to this we ate the item known in Korean as 토스트 (”toast”) which in reality is more like a toasted egg sandwhich than the item westerners know as toast. It was pretty decent, and the guy at the toast stand was macking it to Ailinn…or maybe just making polite conversation in Korean. Either way it was good for her.

Around 4:00 my father-in-law arrived in a van and took us away to the hanbok shop. The hanbok were all ready, so we picked them up and then carried on to his home. Due to the rain, the commute was a real pain in the keister, and after an hour and a half or two hours, we arrived at the homestead.

When we arrived, I saw that far too much food had been prepared: 불고기, 잡채, 갈지탕, salad, brews, chicken…and I could go on and on. So we sat down and got to work eating. Everything was awesome! Following dinner, there was a hanbok fashion show during which members of my family tried on their hanbok, were shown how to tie it together, and too many photographs were taken.

Some gifts were given and then my family got taken back to the hotel, since tomorrow was the big day and there was a lot of things to do.

So ends this part of my wedding adventure. If you like pictures and such, check this out yo!