Yeongdeok for Chuseok

Map of Yeongdeok (google style)

While I was at the BBQ’s at Tony’s on Tuesday afternoon I was invited to go to the coast with a few other friends. The plan was to leave for Yeondeok, which is a beach town on the East coast in the morning. Wednesday was Chuseok, which is the Korean Thanksgiving. The Koreans have a national Holiday Tuesday-Thursday for Chusoek. We took advantage of this holiday and got out of town.

I met up with Collin, Joomi (Collin’s Girlfriend), Gue (her brother), Josh, Mi Young (Josh’s Girlfriend), Tony, Murray, Jack and Hannah at Tony’s at 11:00am, Wednesday, September 22, 2010. Take a picture walk through my journey!

I saw this spider on my way to Tony's

Jack and Hannah getting ready to go

It rained all day Weds. This was at the rest stop.

Me and Mi Young

A little girl dressed in a traditional Chuseok dress.

One of the rooms at our Pension (like a time share I guess)

The other room at the Pension

Mi Young and Joomi just hanging out

sweet.....grasshopper

The beach right by the Pension

Fishermen

I was too chicken to go in....it was cold and rainy.

Rainy day at the beach

Our Pension was on the left, super chill

Taking a snooze

Murray cooked up a shrimp KimChi dish! It was delicious!

Playing cards with Hannah and Gue

Fireworks for Cuseok

Be careful Hannah

Ok, I'll do it.

Eels by our Pension

Giant Crab near Pension

Not for sale! HUGE CRAB!!!!!!

More crabs---afterall Yeongdeok is the CRAB hub of Korea

He was not happy.

Gue, Joomi, and Mi Young grubbin

Mi Young and Josh

Just playing a little Wii Bowling with Gue.



A few of us ended up going back out to the beach. I went in this time and it felt soooooo good. I should have gone in before. Sorry no pictures.


Thursday, September 23, 2010

The view from our Pension

I sat and watched the water for an hour before we took off.

Good-Bye Pension

We drove about 20 minutes inland to this beautiful fresh water  canyon.

300 year old temple

If you look closely you can see Tony and Murray. I jumped in and joined them. We swam down the way and enjoyed the cool clean water.

What a site!

Battle Wound from the rapids

Another spot we stopped at before we left town



This trip was amazing. The people were great, the food was good, and the scenery was even better. I'm really loving Korea so far and I can't wait to see more of it! After we made it back to Deagu, Hannah and I went to a Junjunbang (bath house) and sat in the hot tub and sauna....it was really nice.