Hampyeong Butterfly Festival

On Sunday the 3rd of May... Myself, Shane, Justin, Joey & his wife Chloe went to the 11th Annual Butterfly Festival in Hampyeong. The weather was HOT and HUMID and as usual, since we're in Asia.. it was packed with people. The whole town had a year-round Butterfly theme, check out the side of their mountain.

Justin, Joey & Shane in front of the Festivals mascots.

During the whole day we saw more dead butterfly exhibits than live ones and many other strange cultural happenings.

I bumped into two kids I teach who were there with their family, obviously a perfect photo opportunity for their Mother!

Look... an Ajuma (Older Korean Lady) ladybug!!

Shane & Myself in the LIVE Butterfly exhibit. There was also bees, frogs, crabs, fish and crazy looking water beetles on show... why not... the more the merrier! Shane loves Butterflies. haha!

There was also a fun park where we went on the Viking Ship! Poor Chloe was terrified! haha! Here's Myself, Justin & Chloe going for a gallop. This is the closest I've come to a horse in South Korea. haha! Sad Day :(

We sat underneath these sweet "flower trees" for a few minutes of shade, where we watched loads of Korean kids run through water fountains, and then one little boy ran right over to us and peed about a foot away on the grass... A little Korean old man nearly fell off a step laughing at the little boy peeing.

Another activity to get involved in: These kids (below) are in a mud pond searching for mud fish. The mud fish are leech looking creatures. Nasty. They could buy special buckets to bring them home in when they caught a ton of them. I'm pretty sure I know what they were having for dinner that night! Gross!

The next activity we passed was an enclosed field where the kids had to run around catching piglets and rabbits. PETA could have shut this place down for sure! If they caught an animal, they had to carry it back to the pen to collect their prize... which was none other than a bag of rice!

Last but not least there was a 'Cow & Milk' activity... you went around and had to do several tasks, for each task you received a stamp and with a full book of stamps you got to make your own ice-cream and then collect a prize of a pencil, or if you are Shane... beg the girl for the cow pencil sharpener! The tasks included, answering questions about milk, which we didn't understand cause it was all in Korea, they were nice and gave us stamps anyway... then you had to bottle feed a calf, then feed hay to some cows and then milk a cow.

All in all... it was a rather strange and wonderful day, with another look into Korea's Culture. It was a great day to be outside.

Ooh I forgot to mention, I got picked out twice to do interviews for a Newspaper and for the Korean News Channel. They just asked me where I was from and what I thought about the Festival. I'm Famous... In Korea. haha!