Day 120: Teen Girl Fantasies Come To Life

Today was a perfect, beautiful, hot summer day! Soaring temperatures with almost no humidity and bright clear blue skies! Wow!! You can't ask for nice weather than this! Summer has arrived in full force in Korea and I'm loving the sunshine! (Now if I could just get rid of the humidity on all those other days...) Eric and Tim arrived at Michael's around 9am and the four of us drove down to Bundang to pick up Maeve. It was going to be the five of us for the weekend and we were all really excited about it!
We stopped at a grocery store to pick up snacks and ingredients so we could make our own batch of sangria that night, and then got Maeve and headed out of the city.

Our destination was a recreational area a few hours north of Seoul, nestled right against the North Korea border. Our drive up was beautiful and we were all hot and sticky and dying for a swim when we arrived at our destination town a few hours later.
Our rafting wasn't until tomorrow so we thought we'd find a place to stay for the night and then go seek out a lake or river to swim in.

All the resort hotels we had originally hoped to stay in were all booked up, but a front desk lady suggested we go check out a group of 'cabins' up the road that might have some space. We drove up this dirt road in middle-of-nowhere Korea and came upon this dusty virtual ghost town in this very scenic valley. We found the 'cabins' that we could rent and it wasn't exactly what we had expected... It really was just a big, empty wooden house split into two parts for tourists to rent out. It wasn't all that nice, but the price was right (80,000 Won, or about $80 CDN split by five) so we took it. We rented the smaller of the two parts but the grounds came with a BBQ pit so we thought that would be fun later on tonight.

We suited ourselves up and drove down to the 'big lake' just down the road. There aren't many bodies of water of substantial size in Korea so finding a lake really is a rarity. The lake unfortunately turned out to be a massive disappointment! It was less than half full of water and was surrounded by gross disgusting mud flats. The entire area smelled and looked more like a giant mud puddle than a lake. Certainly not the refreshing forest lake that we had hoped for! And on top of that, some stupid fair had set up on the shores, so it was swarming with Korean tourists checking out the make-shift fair rides, sad pathetic petting zoo, and the less-than-pleasant-sounding Korean bands. Forget this! We're outta here!

We drove up the road until we found a provincial park with a stream that you could apparently swim in (according to the gate attendant.) The stream was really small but appeared clean and uncrowded and refreshingly cool. We kept walking upstream until we found a trail that led down to a small pool formed by the creek. When we got to the pools we discovered that we weren't alone... Across the creek from us were about 10-15 Korean teenage girls, all around 16 years old. They all became very excited when they saw us five foreigners coming down to the creek. It was quite the welcoming committee for our international crew (a Canadian, an American, a Korean, a German, and an Irish girl!)

The five of us relaxed around the creek for a bit and just enjoyed the natural surroundings. This is when things got real interesting, across the creek from us... Apart from our original welcome the teen girls actually left us alone while we were lounging, but then they started to (unknowingly) put on quite a spectacular show for us...I'm still grinning in disbelief and amusement while thinking about it...

All of the teen girls were fully clad in their school uniforms - white blouses with plaid skirts - very Britney Spears a-la "Baby One More Time" video. Well they started to all get a little hyper so they began to chase each other around the pond, tickling each other and giggling uncontrollably. Suddenly the inevitable happened - one of the girls fell in to the water - school uniform and all. She emerged from the pond completely soaked and even more charged with hyperness. This is when all hell/heaven broke loose, depending on your perspective. Simultaneously, as if directed by some un-seen porn director hiding in the bushes, all the girls began throwing each other into the pond and engaging in explosions of tickling and horseplay in the creek. Water fights broke out, girls chased each other around the edges while other girls tackled each other and rolled around in the pond together, giggling and squealing the entire time uncontrollably. We all stared in complete surprise! It was right out of some porno! For anybody who has a thing for bouncing teen girls in soaking wet school uniforms tickling her 15 closest friends while wrestling in a pond, this would be like dying and going to cradle-robbing nirvana! Who would've thought that this kind of stuff *actually* happens in REAL LIFE!!!???

After watching the Korean version of Christina Aguilera's 'Dirrty' unfold before our very eyes, we decided to go for a swim ourselves. We stuck to our end of the pool so as to not encourage the girls to ask us a million and one English questions, but I couldn't resist. Being the incessant flirt that I am, I swam on over to their end of the pool. I wasn't even half way there when they all noticed and started to get very excited. A chorus of "What's your name?" "Where are you from?" "How old are you?" "Do you have a girlfriend?" erupted from the bevy of teen girls in my direction. I stayed swimming in the pool, but a couple of them waded back into the creek to chat with me. Suddenly one of the more feisty girls splashed some water on me and that was it. Less than a second later and I was engaged in a Wet 'n Wild World War Three Water Fight with the teen girls! All I saw was a flurry of drenched plaid skirts and SOAKED WHITE BLOUSES as the water fight escalated to an even more-heightened pitch than what the girls had done before on their own. Water was flying everywhere, girls were squealing, hell I was squealing too! It was nuts! Where's a video camera when you need one?

After over twenty minutes of water play-fighting, English conversation lessons, and many marriage proposals to me, I swam back to my friends who teased me FOR THE REST OF THE WEEKEND about being such a big bad flirt. Hey I'll admit it! What can I say? I just can't help myself...hehe! ;-)

After our swim/soft porn auditions, we were all starved so we headed into town to buy a bunch of ingredients for our BBQ. We drove back to our cabin and got our BBQ pit all flared up. We ended up having an absolutely delicious dinner of burgers, chicken, and grilled vegetables while sitting under a perfectly clear starry night. WOW! In Seoul you just don't ever see the stars with all the light pollution - I had practically forgotten what they looked like! We also made up a giant bucket of sangria and we wasted no time in diving into that!

We also discovered that the other half of the cabin had been rented too by a big group of late 20's/early 30's Koreans. They were engaged in their own BBQ and were blasting English pop music out of their van and dancing under the stars while doing shots of Soju. A few of them spoke English and invited us to join them. Turns out they were all on some 'corporate retreat' for the weekend and were happy to meet us foreigners. We were a bit shy at first but after some more sangria and soju we joined our new friends and we all had this big outdoor dance party! It was awesome, to be out drinking and dancing under the stars with my friends and a bunch of Koreans!! Another random totally crazy Asian moment!! haha!!!

Eventually the Koreans left to go and find a Norabang room (karaoke) but the five of us stayed behind to continue drinking and dancing away. It was so warm and beautiful outside - gotta love summer! Maeve broke out her digicam and of course the requisitve silly drunken photos ensued! Oh, there'll be a very large stack of incriminating photos against me for one day when I'm rich and famous. Future tabloids will never, ever run out of embarrassing material to print against me! LOL!

We had such a busy day that we were all pooped out pretty early, and so we were in bed before 1am. We all crashed in our little cabin and enjoyed our sangria and soju-induced dreams all night long... :-)