Pie Eating, Soccer, Korea

I finally got my hands on some of the photos that were taken during our 4th of July party at the brewery. Here's me stuffing my face in some banana cream pie :-) ...

^^It was an experience I will never forget. As previously mentioned, I never did finish that pie. And I probably ate more through my nose than I did through my mouth. :-)

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I played two soccer games today, and didn't have time to make it to the aquarium. [[ I told Ibbi and Paul to go without me, and when I got back from my games they said that it wasn't worth it. Apparently there were hundreds of small children literally running around screaming at the animals, and the ticket price was pretty expensive, so maybe the Shanghai Aquarium isn't all that it's cracked up to be. They didn't even get to see Bruce the big gold fish. ]] My teams won one game and lost the other. Both were 3 - 2 finals. I didn't score any goals, but I had a few quality assists. I played pretty defensively for both games, something that I'm not really used to, but it was fun.

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For my trip to Korea, I'm thinking that I will go during my last weekend in Shanghai. The main reason for this is that the ticket price is escalating quite quickly for next weekend, and almost all of my friends will have already left Shanghai the weekend of Aug 6 - 8, so it seems to be the perfect time to go. I can finish up all of my internship stuff before then, and then I'll fly to South Korea for a long weekend, come back to Shanghai, and then fly out to head back home on Aug 10th. I called Delta and actually tried to change my departing flight from Shanghai to the U.S., I was hoping maybe I could change it to fly out of S. Korea, then I would only have to buy a one-way ticket to S. Korea from Shanghai, but Delta said no way (the only option was to pay $2k to cancel my current flight out of Shanghai and buy a one-way ticket from S. Korea to Cleveland...no thanks!). I even explained to them that my original situation, flying from Detroit to Shanghai, was a serious mess and they really screwed it up, so maybe this time they could do me a favor to make up for their last mess up, but that didn't seem to get me anywhere.

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PMM