Wax on Wax off
Me and the G-man himself. Another tick off my bucket list….
Which one is Wax? I can’t tell, and I’m in the photo…
Saturday 6/2: Photos above from a very eventful trip to the 63 City Wax Museum in Seoul. The proprietor is a Madam Toussad associate with similar skills and training. I joined a few of my school colleagues for the ride to this famous outfit. The 63 City building is quite famous in Korea, housing an aquarium, a 4D (yes 4D - that’s smells and sprays included) Movie complex, an art gallery and Korea’s very own House of Wax. As seen above, I got to touch Ghandi’s feet, compare boot size with David Beckham, high-five Frankenstein, give Marilyn Munroe some dirty smoochies, and even pulled out a Presidential Salute with Obama himself.
After a couple of hours we taxied on to the Noryangjin Seafood market, another well trekked locale. It is an indoor market about the size of Wellington’s TSB Arena; long and narrow with hundreds of stalls and tons of seafood. We bought a massive sized fish for 50,000 Won, sliced and gutted in front of us to have as sashimi dinner later on at the house of Anna (fellow teacher) and Kevin (her American Navy boyfriend) in Itaewon. Their house is a mansion compared to mine; massive lounge, kitchen and bedroom with a spare bedroom and study to boot. However with a monthly price range of 750,000 Won ($938 NZ) they are living the high life.
Hyun showed up to join us for dinner and drinks, and what followed was my introduction to a proper Soju session. I won’t go into details of the drinking games, tomfoolery and outright shenanigans that occured. Partly because there was so much happening, and partly because there’s so much I have no recollection of. I woke Sunday at Hyun’s house with a killer hangover. A quick vom tag-teamed with coffee and a shower did the trick, and soon I was back in ship-shape. We tiki-toured around a few spots in Seoul doing nothing in particular, hunted for some hangover cures at the various pharmacies and ate some top notch chinese cuisine. Then it was back on the train to return home once again…
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