Some Birthdays and Birthday Celebrations

The past couple weeks a couple friends I have made in Korea have celebrated their birthdays.

One of these was a Korean, and she had a party at her house. Her Mom made a whole bunch of delicious food for her guests to enjoy. I especially loved the bulgogi, which is like beef. I ate that on nachos and salsa. I had to leave the party early due to working Sunday morning at 9am, but it was fun while I was there.

This weekend was a friend from Texas' birthday. For his birthday he wanted to shoot some guns. He found a shooting gallery in Gyeongju. Gyeongju is only about an hour bus ride from Daegu and it only cost us about 4 bucks. We departed early around 9:30 and arrived at the shooting gallery just after 11.

The shooting itself did not take very long. I never shot a gun before today, and I am not sure I ever will again. I'll admit it was kind of cool, but it was also very loud and to be perfectly honest the power of the guns scared me. If there was someone in the line of that fire, the shot could have killed or injured them...unless ofcourse if I was aiming at them. Then my bullet would have missed completely.

I think I shot a 9mm and a magnum. The first target I shot at was with the 9mm. It was the pretty standard circle target and it had a picture of a cougar within it. I didn't shoot half bad. Most of my shots landed within the circle while a couple were even in a relatively close proximity to the bulls eye area.

The second however was not quite as accurate. The target was funnier though. The target was a terrorist, very stereo-typical middle eastern terrorist. There was also a woman hostage. Obviously your goal was to hit the terrorist in spots like the head, are or chest...and NOT hit the hostage. I managed to shoot 4 or 5 inches to the left above the terrorist's head. I got 10 shots and that was the only shot that hit the target. After 5 shots they even moved it closer for me. Thats when I made the hit.

After the firing range we grabbed some food and then went ATV'ing. That was a lot of fun. Racing through gravel, through small streams and over bridges. Not my first time ATV'ing, but it was a lot of fun regardless.

Then we headed back to Daegu and people parted ways. I went with the birthday boy to play golf. Not at your typical golf course either. This was screen golf. Or screena golpa as the Koreans say it. Basically you hit the golf ball into a large screen and it triggers some sort of censor and the ball lands on the course that you see on a big projection screen. I don't know exactly how it works, but it was kind of cool and I will upload pictures at some point and share them with my avid blog readers (if there are still any).