Sueji and Maggie mugging for my camera. This is after we had already been dancing for a while. Sorry if some of the pictures are not completely clear, there was a lot of that dance floor smoke stuff. Sueji talked us into this, we were not sure we wanted to go. I am glad she did cause we all had a great time.
This is Liz's brother Dave and I dancing. Dave spent a year in China and crashed with his big sis in Korea for a few weeks on his way back to the States. Amazing as we get older we actually begin to like our siblings. My face is all red cause we were in there dancing for hours!
Liz always is so great at mugging for the camera. She cracks me up big time. I am not sure what Maggie is doing in the background there. I think by this point we had all chucked our shoes.
We had gone through Seoul on our way to DongHae for a Couch Surfing event. We ended up sleeping for about an hour or so in the sauna in Seoul before getting on the bus to DongHae. Couch Surfing, for those who do not know, is an international community where you can sign up to host people visiting your area and then you can crash when you travel. It is really cool. Anyway, sometimes they have big events for people from an area to all get together. So this is what we were doing. Patrick was hosting it at Kathryn's house. It is a really cool thing. So we were supposed to go hiking on Saturday morning. We did sorta. But everyone was kinda hung over and sleep deprived from the night before and it was pouring all day. Check out Maggie in her rain gear.
We went to the National Park there and some us us decided to hang out at the Buddhist temple under the covered porches instead of continue getting soaked. This is a picture of the shrine. You can see a Buddha to the right.
Because of all the rain, there was this gorgeous mist over the green mountains that surround this temple. It was totally amazing. I took a zillion pictures, but I can never seem to get mist to look as cool on film as it does in real life.
It was a shame it was so rainy, it was really pretty. But we were towards the end of the Korean rainy season and I was just so sick of being wet all the time, that I was not going to brave it. On the other hand, the rain and mist give it a whole different beauty too.
Trying to stay a little dry, Dave, Maggie and Liz - my crew from Cheongju, posing on a bridge.
This was part of the group who went to the Couch Surfing event, the die hard hikers were swimming in the river at this point I believe.
That night we were tired out so we just hung out inside. We watched some movies and Kathryn had a noiribang in her house, so we had some fun with that too. You can see Patrick feeding Carissa chocolate syrup directly from the bottle. This amused us for about 30 minutes, we are all basically still 6 years old at heart.
One of my favorite parts of the trip was Kathryn had brought her kitty and two minature poodles with her. I totally miss having animals around to play and cuddle with so I had fun with that. You can see me giving the kitty love.
Kathryn posing with her two dogs, so cute. It was a lot of fun, but totally exhausting weekend. I think I slept like 5 hours in 2 days.
But I definitely reccomend checking out couch surfing for anyone who wants to travel or who wants to stay home and still meet people from all over the world. Their web address is: www.couchsurfing.org.
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