So between my 2nd and 3rd Winter Camps at BGV, I got a day off. It’s surprising how full you can make a single day off when you haven’t had one in so long. I only had two plans for my day off, 1) to recover from the inevitable hangover from the night before and 2) to start putting together my beer brewing kit. I accomplished both of this things and had plenty of other surprises along the way too.

Probably the best part of the day was finally meeting back up with Kenny since he is now back from the US of A. After meeting him, we found a rocking kitchen supply shop in Haeundae that has some awesome deals; I was really tempted to buy a big cleaver that I had absolutely no need of, thankfully I was reasonable enough not too. I did pick up a strainer and a kimchi fermenter that I’m going to use as my carboy for my brew kit. After Kenny and I picked up these supplies we went out for some Chinese style dumplings chock full of spicy ginger pork…love that stuff.

Sadly this is where Kenny and I departed from each other. He had to go meet his lovely little lady and since I had no where to be I decided to walk back home. Fortune must have been smiling on me that day because it was a great walk home. First the weather was the best it had been in a long, long time. Which meant that there were tons of people all over Haeundae beach, including colorful locals like the kite man or Mr. Busan in his speedo. But probably the coolest part of my walk home was stumbling upon a Sci-Fi Toy Museum. It’s name is Movie in the Box and it was fantastic! The dude who runs the place hand makes a lot of the display items in his museum. The ones he doesn’t make are usually mint condition collectibles. He also has everything labelled in multiple languages, etc…. Really cool place that I totally recommend visiting. It’s nearer to the Westin Chosun side of Haeundae beach, located one street back above a GS25. After that, I stumbled across another museum. This was a museum of photography featuring pictures of Busan from half a century ago. Great stuff! I’d say this day was a success!

TL;DR: One day off, I begin constructing a brew kit, meet old friends, eat good food, and stumble upon two museums.