Daegu

I haven't a good chance to organize pictures or thoughts about our trip to Daegu. In a nutshell, it was probably the best part of our trip. Beautiful mountains, green grass and trees, the best food of the whole trip,and great friends. Next trip, we'll spend more time in this part of the country and less time in Seoul. I'll try to post more pictures later. But for now... .this was taken at a photo booth on the street. Then it lets you send it to any email address that you want. Very cool!

Doeksugang Palace, Namdaemun Market, and a relaxing evening

On Thursday, we went to Doeksugang Palace. Charles had had a lot of pictures taken there when he was a baby and I knew the boys would like the changing of the guard ceremony. We did okay, but it was so hot that the trip through palace after the guard ceremony was not much appreciated.

  

Us with the guard. Boys are not looking very pleased.

Travis realized just how hard it was to take pictures of the boys and only got this one by sprinting ahead and waiting for us to come down the steps.

They were a little happier when we found this fountain. I think spraying the water at each other was not really the intention of the fountain, but the boys sure appreciated it. Unfortunately, they weren't much happier afterwards so we decided we needed to feed them.

Min at lunch giving us a bottle concert.

Mom, the pack mule. Min got tired in the market so I packed him back to the guesthouse. Travis thought it would be funny to make me carry everything we bought.

We all crashed for awhile in the afternoon and then walked over to Yonsei University so the boys could run around. Here they are watching the Yonsei University baseball team practice.

Of course, these two found the water fountain right away.

Racing on the track.

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Min got so tired from all the running and playing hide-and-seek that he had to lay down on the steps.

They managed to find enough energy to exercise on the exercise equipment at the park on the way back to the guesthouse.

The little van we found on the way back. No one can ever stand still long enough to get a decent picture.

Eurwangi Beach

We decided to go to the beach on Tuesday. We picked the closest one to Seoul and it was also recommended as a good family beach since the water wasn't very deep. We had to take the train to the airport and then a bus to the beach. Then we realized the error of our ways. When you take two adults who have lived their entire lives in either North Dakota or Minnesota, quite possibly as far from the ocean as you can get in the U.S., they don't even consider the tide. So, we got to the beach and saw that the tide was far from the beach... as in about 400 yards from the beach. The good news was that I was able to ask someone on the beach how long it would take for the water to come back. Thumbs up for Mom!! So, we had to walk through about 400 yards of mud... and some pretty good shell hunting... to get to the water. There lay the second disappointment. The water was so muddy.  The boys were not to be swayed and I decided that we did not fly to the other side of the world, take a train, a bus, and wander through 400 yards of mud to not let them go in the West Sea.

The boys beginning the trek to the water.

And, continuing the trek. We are much closer and I am also carrying a gallon sized baggie full of various shells.

Charles and Min in the water. Charles got to the water and turned to me and said, 'Can we go in this water?'

My little engineer found some sand and got to work. Charles absolutely LOVES building in the sand.

Min loved being crashed by the waves.

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Charles and part of his sand creation. This part he named, 'The Big Pond.'



The part of his river that empties into the pond.

So the other benefit of getting to the ocean when the tide was out, is that the boys got to watch it come in. A very cool science lesson.