What a busy but fun day! It started with an early rise to get to the completely other side of the city for the Color Run. However, I somehow mis-remembered the meeting spot and went to Jamsil instead of the Sports Complex station. Anyway, it was only a minor glitch and I had enough time to spare so it wasn't a big deal. I met up with Michelle in the subway station and we went to go collect my racing gear. There was a bag check and we checked in our bags, put on our sticker tattoos and got in line with our race-time group.
The first part of the 5k course went through the Olympic Stadium on the track. Many participants didn't want to walk around the whole track and were hopping over the barriers or skipping it in general. Also, hardly anyone was running. Michelle overheard some people, upon seeing some runners retort, "why are they running?!" We were kind of shocked at that because it was a 5k RUN after all...No matter. We decided that we would lightly jog it just for the heck of it, even if no one else was running. The first color station we got to was green. We didn't get too much colored powder on us at that point and we kept jogging to the next color station, orange. Along the way, we saw people sitting down and taking selfies; by far the strangest run I've ever done. After the orange, blue came next and there was a fair amount of blue thrown at us. We also had a water station and they squirted us with water guns. The final color was pink and it was a pink explosion! The people at this station were armed with SHOVELS to throw the powder. Needless to say, we were quite pink when we finished.
We hopped on the subway and were greeted with looks ranging from surprise to disdain. I personally liked the color and think that everyone should be covered in colored powder to be more colorful! It was fun! Michelle hopped off at her stop and I continued on to Sinchon. I arrived before the group I was meeting and sat outside for a bit. Sumi and JiYoon finally arrived and I met them inside the Twosome Place cafe by the subway station. Brandon, Sumi's friend was waiting inside as well. Not long after Kjersti and Philip arrived, so we were only waiting on Orjan to show up.
There was some confusion but finally we were able to get our wristbands to do the Slide the City. We decided to get lunch before we started the water slide and went to a ramen place Brandon recommended. There was a long wait (especially with a big group) and so we went in search of a different place. Alex dropped by, as he and his friends were considering doing the slide, but he said they decided not to do it after seeing it all set up. We finished lunch and then went to go wait in line for our inter-tubes. We had split up so that Kjersti waited in line for the slide and the rest of us went to get the tubes. So after we got to tubes, we went to find Kjersti; they let us hop in line and we didn't have to wait long at all which was really nice. The water slide was pretty cool, but it was a very short run for the amount of time we had to wait! After coming down the first run, we went back in line to go again. While we were waiting, it did start to drizzle a bit and the lines started moving a bit faster (there were only 2 slides). Kjersti and Philip had to leave and Sumi, JiYoon, Orjan and I decided to make one more run. It was almost a full downpour by the time we were done sliding.
We all parted ways to get cleaned up and set a meeting time. We were all pretty much late for the meeting, but no big deal. Orjan brought along Stine and Hakon and Brandon returned to join us for dinner. I wanted to take them to Imo's place (I haven't been there in ages) but when we got there, they said they were closed, even though it was only about 8:30. We walked back closer to Hongdae and went to a Mapo Kalmaegi restaurant. The only bummer was at first there weren't 2 tables next to each other so the group got split up. About halfway through, one table opened up so my table moved to be together. After dinner, we grabbed a few grapefruit soju bottles and went to the playground; basically it was all that Orjan was talking about-playing some games in the playground with grapefruit soju. We hung out in the playground for a few hours before some of the group split. The rest went to Zen to enjoy some music and dancing.
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