Spring has sprung. Or did we go right to summer?

Hey everyone. Hope you are all doing well and enjoying some warmer weather like we are over here. This week we seemed to make the leap from low double digits right to low twenties making us all wonder if we are going to skip spring and go right to early summer. It was great to have the weather warm up and we all felt much better around work and about life in general, even after I had to change my tutoring day to Wednesday one of my busier days.
On Thursday I took Go-Ah back to the vets to get her stitches out and the second half of her meds. She was not a huge fan of taking another ride in her carrying case but the vet commented on how behaved she is when being worked on. She couldn't have cared less that he was taking her stitches out and barely squirmed when he cut her claws.
The rest of the week was pretty good and by Friday we were all ready to get out and enjoy the weather. After work on Friday we had a beer outside the store by my house before going to Gangnam to meet up with Margaret and Hannah for a few drinks. Unfortunately, Hannah got a little drunk and 16 year old ish and we all decided it was time to get away from her. I came home around 2 or 230 and got some sleep before Saturday.
Brian, Margaret, and I got together early Saturday afternoon and went to do some shopping. We were looking for some summer clothes, like shorts, since we all brought mostly winter clothes. We checked out one of the larger markets but found nothing of real interest so we then went to Myongdong a popular shopping district with lots of foreign stores. I ended up finding a pair of shorts a a Dickies outlet for a good price.
After shopping I headed to Hyaywa to meet Sung Eun, my tutee, to attend another dance performance. This one unlike the last one I went to was understandable and artistic instead of absurd. It was called "Korean Screens - 4 Solo Dances", and was a collaboration between Korean dancers and Belgian directors. There were four separate solo performances each telling a different story through a mix of modern and interpretive dancing. The first one was about the 7 weeks a soul spends in limbo between death and rebirth. The second one was about the transition from animalism to humanism and it involved a woman dressed in a bear suit (weird) and slowly shedding it until she was a "naked human". It was the one that I liked the most because it was both funny and artistic together. The third one was my second favorite and was about the "many faces of society", and how we view others based on what they are doing and how we view and adapt ourselves based on what others see in us. The last one was the most about dance and the fusion of hip-hop and contemporary styles, but I didn't really get it I guess.
After the performance we went out for a few beers and talked for a bit until she had to head home and I headed off for the regular Saturday night fiasco. I met up with Blake, Brian, Jameson and Junk in Sillim to finish off a bottle of whiskey the Blake had capped at a bar from before. We quickly became to only people in the bar so the manager and another waitress came over to drink with us and hangout. We were having such a great time that after we finished the first bottle we ordered a second and kept partying. After that was gone somebody got into the beer and before we knew it we were looking at 2 empty bottles of whiskey and about 20 empty beers......and it was 630 am! We figured it was time to leave so we all went outside and across the street under direction of the manager for Sam Gip Sal (fried pork) and Soju. None of us were too incredibly drunk and the meal helped to soak up some of the night. After breakfast we all took the subway home and i was in bed by 8 am.
We were a little upset at how late our night got because we wanted to be up at a decent time to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival on Sunday. The festival was at Yaweedoe Park in Seoul and is held every year when the cherry blossom trees flower which signifies the coming of spring. It was on all weekend, up until 10pm Sunday. After some rest we all got together around 530 at the park, instead of the 230 we hoped for, and started walking down the riverside street bordered by the Cherry Blossom trees. It was quite beautiful and there were several street performances and artists that would draw your portrait. We stayed until after the sun went down and then got some traditional Pizza Hut before calling it a night and a weekend.
Thanks for checking in. I'll talk to you again soon.