Jeju V-ball tournament!

We had an exciting full 2-day v-ball tournament this past weekend! There were about 25 teams, each with 6 players (half female, half male). This means there were 150 v-ball players, foreigners and Koreans, in addition to a bunch of people that came to the beach just to watch and cheer everyone on. So many people all on one beach!

Keith and I played on the same team with four other Jeju friends (Kyla, Brittany, Jason and Collin). We played pretty well. We won some, lost some...pretty much just had fun though and hung out with a lot of good friends! The weather was perfect both days....not too hot, but sunny and warm. People camped out (we don't have a tent yet so next time we'll be camping!), and there was music, food, drinks, bands, raffles, games, etc. all weekend!


The first day we had to get there 7:30am, because games started right at 8! We left the tournament that day around 7pm and headed off to the hospital to visit our friend and neighbor Mike. He had to get surgery on his foot and was supposed to be a player on our team, so we visited him to try and cheer him up.

The next day we got there by 8:30 am and we won our first 3 games, but then lost our next two games against some really good teams. We stayed to watch the final teams compete, and then stuck around for the big raffle.

Keith bought many raffle tickets in hopes of winning the grand prize- a very nice surfboard. Although he didn't win, he DID win 2 $20 (20,000 won) gift certificates to Outback Steakhouse, which is a delicacy here. After the tournament ended around 8:30pm Sunday night, we headed there and had a HUGE water-watering feast!! YUM!

We were both EXHAUSTED after the fun weekend. We'll probably continue this v-ball tournament tradition and play again for the next one in the fall. Can't wait!