Dan and Kim in White Rock.

We visited our friends Dan and Kim in White Rock over the weekend. Dan is an old friend from high school and college. Kim is super cool, and we were happy to be able to spend some time with her and get to know her better.

We hung out on Friday night and played Quiddler and Euchre. Dan and I managed to lose four straight. We went out for breakfast Saturday morning and walked around White Rock. It's a beautiful little town. In the afternoon we drove to Vancouver and walked around Stanley Park. We marveled at the big totem poles and enjoyed the sunny (!) Vancouver weather. Then we headed down to Granville Island to check out the market and have a beer. We headed up to Burnaby for dinner at Insadong, a Korean restaurant. The food was delicious, and they even had Hite beer and soju. Huzzah and double huzzah! After dinner we went to the norae bang (singing room) to sing. We had a great time. Upon leaving, I learned from the proprietor that he had lived in the same apartment complex in Mok-Dong (Chil danje) as we had. Amazing!

We went out for breakfast on Sunday morning. We all got French toast, so we joked about having a French Toast Friends Club. We packed up the car after breakfast and said our farewells to Dan and Kim. Then it was time to drive up to Squamish to visit friends there.

A big thank you to Dan and Kim for hosting us this past weekend. We had a great time with you. Thanks for making time and room for us. All the best to you both!

Alex in Chicago.

Our friend Alex came to Chicago this evening and we were able to spend a few hours with him. We met him in Seoul a couple years ago and had spent a lot of time together there. It was great to catch up.

We ate in at Cho Sun Ok, the Korean restaurant down the street. It was a lot of food, but we ate like we were back in Mok-Dong.

A big kam-sa-ham-ni-da to Alex for taking the time to come out and see us. It was good to see you, and we realize how much we miss eating, talking, and laughing with you.

Rainy day in the Windy City.

It's a rainy day in Chicago. We biked around for a while. It was a good time, but also a a cold and wet time.

We're hoping to meet up with our friend Alex tonight. It is highly likely that we'll eat Korean food for the second night in a row. Nice-uh!

Around Chicago.

Rhoda and I have had a great day today. We borrowed Jan and Becky's bikes and went riding all over the city. The weather was beautiful: sunny and about seventeen degrees Celsius. We biked around the neighborhood and past Wrigley Field and then headed out to the lakeshore path. We rode all the way past downtown and Navy Pier.

At a little after five we met up with Jan along the path and biked together through Lincoln Park and past the national headquarters for the Elks. Very cool.

We stopped in at Reckless Records on Broadway. I wanted the second latest Bill Callahan record. They had a used copy; unfortunately, they couldn't find it. Grrr...

It was getting dark and we were getting hungry, so we hopped on the bikes again and went to Cho Sun Ok Korean Restaurant, which is just around the corner. We ordered a lot of delicious food to take home and then rode over to the Half Acre brewery. We sampled a few delicious beers and bought a growler of Daisy Cutter. Then we picked up our food at Cho Sun Ok and rode home.

Jan was happy to see Becky and Grace, and so were we. We put the food out, poured some beers, and sat down for dinner. It was delicious. So good to eat Korean food again!

After dinner Jan, Rhoda, and I went to the schoolyard across the street to throw the ball around with the dog. The big beech tree across the street is full of yellow leaves and lit up by the streetlights.It's a beautiful night out here, cool and windy.