Baseball Game - Evening

After our fun morning at Wolmi Park we met up with Kelly Ann and some of her students to go to our first baseball game in Korea! We were so excited!

This is the group we went with. After this picture some other people wanted their picture with us. It's weird how often we get requests to take pictures with complete strangers.

This is the entrance to the baseball stadium. The right of the people on top says "bibidi-bobidi-bo". When I was in the hospital I heard that little song on the TV a lot.

There's an E-Mart advertisement. E-Mart has been well represented to us today...hehe.

Baseball in Korea is different for many reasons. First whatever team you are for, you sit on a certain side. In the following pictures you can see that the SK Wyverns side (red color) was much fuller. They are the Incheon team and also the Champions for last year. So that was fun for us because we are in Incheon and so we got to root for that team!

We each had these inflated red things that we hit together instead of clapping and would use them to cheer. This was the most interactive baseball game I've ever been to.

Whenever SK was up to bat we'd all stand up and cheer. We even had a "cheerleader" to help us cheer on our team. That man has SO much energy. He was a blast to watch and follow.

We didn't always know what they were saying but the students helped to translate. In some ways it was really distracting because you couldn't always see what was happening but it was so much fun. Hitting those things together was really energizing!!

As you can see in the pictures and videos one side is filled with people with red and the other side of the stadium is almost empty. That's the other teams side and the SK side. When I told the students how in America we all sit wherever, they were shocked, they couldn't believe that we would mingle. But this is the country that has assigned seats in the theater.

Other fun things about a Korean baseball game. Food. It was definitely Korean. There were many many bowls of ramen noodles and lots of dried cuddle fish and squid going around.

They also allowed us to bring in our own food so we snacked on potato chips.

The bathroom signs were interesting... =P

It was really a fun evening. It reminded me of going to baseball games when I was younger and we just really enjoy ourselves. The students made the game a complete treat for us and we were so grateful for their kindness.

SK won and for the longest time it was 4:1 but in the last inning the other team hit a home run and scored two more runs! We were hoping for overtime so then SK got the third out. It was still a great way to end the game.

This is us jumping for joy!

As we left we talked about wanting to go to more baseball games and soccer games. Since surgery I don't know if I'll have the energy and I thank God that we were able to go at all. It was definitely one of our best memories!