Muiido Island

My new friends do an unbelievable job of planning trips and finding cool spots to go. For now I am tagging along and I am dreading the day when they leave and I become the only knowledgeable one. That's a scary thought. Anyways, a few weekends ago we woke up bright and early and took a bus, and then another bus, a ferry, and then one more bus to an island called Muiido. It would be considered a great place to go camping or to stay in the small huts right on the beach shown below. So we piled in like sardines when it came time to sleep and payed the 30, 000 won fee to rent a box on stilts. But because the heat comes from the floors in Korea, we found ourselves roasting come morning time which meant no need to snuggle although there is a photo floating around on facebook of Lauren and I spooning. The beach had a great seafood BBQ spot and horses and a good atmosphere. We played soccer and made a fire until we couldn't keep our eyes open. Oh, and the sunset was phenomenal!

Halloween in Korea

Farm animals often have a good time together until the big, bad wolf shows up!

DMZ

Crazy!!!! On my tour to the zone where North and South Korea decided to push back their troops at the end of the war over 50 years ago, we were shown villages that survived the fighting, a tunnel dug from the north to the south, and the bridge where the POW's from both sides were released. Standing just in front of a Rock soldier, I look as if I have just shit my pants. Ask me stories because nothing in my life can compare to the feeling that I had when I stood in North Korea for the first and last time in my life. The tension between the two sides is indescribable. A day I will surely never forget.