Ice Ice Baby

It's a Saturday afternoon and I haven't showered, dressed, or left my apartment yet. The idea of going out there does not appeal to me. It's been a long week so say the least. I am working intensive session at Jackie's, meaning I am there from 9 am to 6:30 pm. Which is not any longer than any other job, but for 7 of those hours I am with kids, and that is exhausting.

I went out last night with Sonya, Matt, Whitney and Jackline, but it was a mellow night. We went to a bar that had "ice beer" -- 500 cc of beer served in an ICE GLASS! Now, we had heard about this place from Whitney's friend, and all we knew was that you got beer in a glass made of ice, and when you were finished you got to break the glass against the wall. How cool does that sound?? So we were all imagining a dark, viking-ish place full of loud drunken merrymaking, with an ice glass being hurled against wall every few seconds...now that's the kind of place I need after a long week of being trapped in a classroom with whiny kids. And in my mind, the ice glass had an ice handle, which you would clutch in your bare hand until you could no longer stand the cold, making in necessary to down your beer before the glass melted, thereby providing everyone with a great excuse for chugging....

But, alas, we were sorely disappointed! The bar was not at all vikingish, in fact, it was quite nice inside and not the kind of place you would normally think of breaking anything. And it was mostly empty, which may have been because it was the beginning of Lunar New Year weekend and most people were with family. They did have ice beer, though, which came in an ice glass as promised. The cup was made of a plastic frame (no ice handle, to our disappointment) with the ice cup sitting inside. And the beer wasn't actually in contact with the ice, but was instead inside of a plastic cup inserted into the ice glass. Which I guess was good, because the melting ice would make the beer even more watery than in already is. (Koreans are NOT good at brewing.) The best part was that the beer was cheap...only 2,100 won for 500 cc. That's about $2 for a pint.

Sonya and I with our ice beer.

And we did get to break our ice glasses. Not by hurling them against the nearest wall as we had hoped. Instead, there was a target set up in the corner, and if you hit the center the whole thing lit up and music started playing. Whoo hoo. If you missed, you at least got the satisfaction of seeing your ice glass shatter. I am proud to say that I was the only one in the group that hit the target.

Although it wasn't what I expected, the glass breaking was pretty fun. I imagine on a night when you are in the mood to drink beer anyways and the bar is a bit more lively, it would be worth it to go there for the cheap beer and the joy of chucking your glass against the target.

Matt hurls his ice glass against the target.

And if someone actually created a bar like what we had all imagined....now that would be a hit in any country!