I got company!

I had Thursday and Friday off of work this week. This gave me a chance to host my friend Brianne for a few days. Bri got here Wednesday night, and left Sunday morning. We got a chance to hit all of the main parts of Korea tourism!

One of my favorite activities of the whole few days was bungee jumping. Since I had gone once before, I was allowed to go with the cord attached to my feet instead of my back. Actully getting off the platform was a lot scarier than it was last time. I didn't get any pictures of me, but I have one picture from the top. I also had my camera hangin from my wrist when I went, so I got this crazy video shaking all over the place.

After bungee jumping, we went into Seoul. Our first day we hit the folk village, and North Seoul Tower. At the folk village, there was a group that was giving free "traditional Korean medicine" screaning. I'm not very good at saying no to people who are waving you over and handing you tea, so I let us get roped into it. I'm not sure the blood preasure machine and scale that measures body fat was really "traditional," but looking at our toungues and telling us we had muscle soreness was interesting... It was kind of rainy and dreary that day, so there wasn't a great view from the top of seoul tower, but it was still worth it.

The next thing we did was go to the Korea War Memorial. I had been there once before, but it was worth seeing again. We ended up getting half-way through before the guard came and kicked us out because the museum was closing. Bummer.... We ended up going back the next morning to finish the rest of it.

The other highlight for me was a lanturn festival that they had in Seoul for Buddah's birthday. We went to the temple, which was all decked out with thousands of lanturns. The monks were playing drums, and there were displays of fancy animal shaped lanturns and all that fun stuff. At night, there was a huge parade. It lasted an hour and a half, but we only stayed for about half of it. We stood along the side with our spiffy new lanturns lit, and watched thousands of people march by. There were big fancy lanturns shaped like animals, trees, lotus flowers, and buddah etc..... Most of the time thought, it was groups of people from all the local temples, universities, hospitals, or any other place that people generally meet together. After a while, all of them were kind of looking the same. It seemed like the point was to get as many lanturns walking down a street as possible.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. I speak for all (okay, most) children when I say we appreciate all that you have done for us, and all that you have sacraficed for us. I hope that those who participate in the Race for the Cure have great weather!!!