Iceberg

Back by popular demand - thank you Jenn and Jonathan.

I guess it’s time I get off my ass…no, wait…sit on my ass and type a few words.

Whew! Married life is somethin’, I tell ya. Lots of adjustments. Nearly all of them positive.  But perhaps the biggest one for me is the sense of guilt I feel when I sit down for too long in front of the computer to surf the Internet. I’m that addicted. It’s pathetic.

Mrs. Iceberg is currently back in Viet Nam.  Her sister is getting married this weekend. She’ll be back next week (Mrs. Iceberg, not her sister).

She has been adjusting to Korea pretty well. Thank god for Skype. Being able to keep in touch with home on a regular basis (FOR FREE!) has helped ease her transition. The only real difficulties she has had have been finding Vietnamese ingredients and her inability to speak Korean. Regarding the former, we found a few stores around Ansan Station that carry a scattering of Vietnamese products which means we’ll be eating less “fusion” food (Vietnamese dishes cooked with Korean substitute ingredients). As far as the latter goes, well, before she came to Korea she was asking, “Why would I want to learn Korean?” but a few days after she arrived she changed her tune. I’m going to start teaching her some Korean when she gets back.

The wedding went off without a hitch. There were a lot more people there than I expected. I’d guess around 200. It was an outdoor wedding. There were two enormous tents - one set up outside of her brother’s house and the other at his neighbor’s house. I really couldn’t tell you if it was a traditional Vietnamese wedding or not, but it was cool. Mrs. Iceberg and I walked around to each table before the wedding to exchange pleasantries and toasts with all the guests. We’re talking about 30 tables, at about one-quarter of which I downed a small glass of beer and another one-quarter of which I did a shot of Vietnamese “whiskey” (or, as they like to call it: whitkey). I guess I should amend the first sentence of this paragraph to, “As far as I can remember, the wedding went off without a hitch.”

The honeymoon was also nice, though the weather was EXTREMELY hot. We went to a place near the city of Phan Thiet called Mui Ne.  After flying from Hanoi to Saigon (Mrs. Iceberg calls it Saigon, so that’s good enough for me), we rented a private car - complete with driver - and rode about four and a half hours to the resort. The ride was just a liiiiiitle too long. But once we got there, it was fantastic. We stayed in a bungalow on the honeymoon package at the Pandanus Resort. Very, very nice place. If you want to escape from it all, I highly recommend it. I’d rate it 4 1/2 stars and - at about $110 a night - a great bargain.

I guess now would be as good a time as any to throw a few photos at you.

These photos were taken with Mrs. Iceberg’s camera. When we left for Korea, I foolishly left my camera (and my favorite pair of tennis shoes) at her brother’s house.

There are many things to see and do around Mui Ne.  At least that’s what I read on the Internet.  Red sand dunes…white sand dunes…kite flying…a “mini Grand Canyon”.  But it was so hot that the missus and I ventured outside of the resort only once.

So now here I am (and here Mrs. Iceberg soon will be again), slaving away at school and otherwise not doing much else.

Wait!!! That’s not true. It’s fantasy football season again! The IKKFL had its draft last Saturday and it’s looking like the Anyang Andres will reign for the second consecutive year. I kept Tony Romo, Adrian Peterson, and Andre Johnson (who was a tough call over Torry Holt). Then I drafted Anquan Boldan, Antonio Gates (welcome back, Antonio), Marvin Harrison, Kevin Smith, David Garrard, Chester Taylor, the Vikings’ D, Marcedes Lewis, Bobby Engram, Robbie Gould (who was my one mistake…I meant to draft Phil Dawson of Cleveland but clicked on the wrong name…oops), and, with the last pick of the draft, the Browns’ D.

Your defending IKKFL Champion Anyang Andres, ladies and gentlemen.

More to come later…maybe.