Patrick Plunders Korea

In his most. epic. week. ever, Patrick had the opportunity to attend:

in Seoul, Korea!

We missed him terribly, and were a little nervous at the headlines coming out of that area, but he returned to us safe and sound, with a story to tell.

Actually, I guess that would be a lie. He came back swearing he had the best time ever, but with very few specifics, even with pics to prompt him. I don't know whether he really doesn't remember which activities took place when, or what he was doing...or if he was just being stingy with the details. Either way, this post will be light on the text.



This is Patrick at the Naha airport with a couple of Kubasaki peeps, ready to take off for Fukuoka airport on the mainland, before heading on to Seoul.



Here he is after taking off from Fukuoka to Seoul, with Katie, also from Kubasaki.



Katie took this picture of their landing in Seoul.



I asked Patrick what was happening in this picture. He said that while they were deplaning in Seoul, someone asked how many people were still ahead of them? Patrick responded by taking this picture (over his head), showing him and saying, "This many."



This is the hotel where they stayed and where the festival was held. The boys stayed on the 6th floor of 19. This was actually built for the Olympics, and Patrick thought it was pretty cool he was sleeping in a room where Olympians had stayed.



Here they are on the first day, acting crazy (which is what they are supposed to be doing, technically).



I'm glad I'm not the only one who takes pictures of random things. Patrick said there were a bunch of these pink, girl parking places. Funny!



Patrick found Katie in the elevator again. I tried to prompt him by asking, "Where were you headed?" He said, "Mom, we used the elevator more than we used the bathroom. I have no idea."



This is Patrick's improv class "minus a couple of chicks"...



And here is Patrick Emceeing the talent show Tuesday night...



And it turns out that his improv instructor, Mr. Dickinson, was some sort of Japanese sword master. When he heard Patrick brought his Nerf swords (leave it to Patrick!) he offered to teach Patrick some of his moves, which they then performed for the others. He even let Patrick keep the costume!



This was the view from Patrick's floor.

On Wednesday night they had a dance, but I didn't include any of those pics or video here, because there were none of Patrick and I didn't think you cared about watching random kids dance (even though some of them were pretty good).



On Thursday after class, the kids went out to this square near the hotel, and were encircled by this group of screaming, Korean school girls.



Good thing Patrick thought to get some of it on film to share with us.



And here he is having fun with some Kubi peeps, relaxing before the big show.



This is my favorite picture! Aren't they adorable?


Patrick didn't get any pictures during their final performance, but I am glad he got this one:


This is what the room looked like before he started packing to head home the next day (Friday). Why am I not surprised?

This video pretty much says it all. I'm sure they were exhausted having to get up so early after an action-packed week.

Hopefully this will be the first of many experiences like this Patrick gets to have over the next couple of years...although I'm sure the next one will have just as few details. At least he takes pictures!