On July 4th we took the weekend and flew to Jeju Island with our office couple friends, Sister Deborah Lackley and Elder Bob Bradley! We had an amazing couple of days! It was fun to be with them and lots of fun to see the beautiful Jeju Island. If any of you are K-drama fans - be sure to watch "When Life gives you Tangerines" It's one of my favorites, so I was excited to go see where it was filmed.
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The night before we left we took the LB's (Lackley/Bradley) to the flight line for the July 4th celebration. We had it on the 3rd of July and Camp Humphreys had theirs on the 4th. I think they take turns because last year we had ours on the 4th and Humphreys had theirs on the fifth. We walked through the booths and watched the fireworks. We missed some ot the shows because it was very hot so we just went over later in the evening. We took them to dinner at a Malatong (Korean version of a Chinese dish) before going over to the base. It was a fun evening We were able to see many of our friends on the base and show the office couple a little bit about what we do as military relations missionaries.
We rode on a tour bus to Chong-ju airport and then took Korean Airlines to Jeju. When we arrived in Jeju we boarded another tour bus and drove to the South of the island. We were amazed at all the tangerine, mandarin, and orange trees - they were everywhere on this part of the island. And believe me when I tell you that you will never have a better orange than here on the island. I could have eaten them all day long!!
Just some of the scenery as we drove to the South. It was a cloudy day but not much rain. The forecast was for rain the whole time but it seemed to rain at night and give us very pleasant weather during the day
At the market - enjoying the food - but especially enjoying the oranges!!
Pictures of the walk down to the beautiful waterfall. There are other waterfalls on the Island but this one it the touristy one! Very beautiful! There was only so much we could do in a couple of days but the ITT tour was a great way to get to see a quick overvies of the island!
After the market, we drove to the beach and took a boat ride on a luxury yacht for about 90 minutes. It was such fun. Elder Lowe even got to drop his fishing line in; Very beautiful
I tried to get pictures of these beautiful hydrangeas all along the highway but it was hard to get a picture to do them justice while riding on the bus. But they lined the roads almost everywhere. The orange groves would be back behind them
These are pictures of the beach from our hotel. It was very relaxing and beautiful!
This picture doesn't really do it justice but all along the road to the north are rock walls - outlining the fields and the road it's pretty amazing to see - they are all done by hand - these people are so industrious and they have a lot of ingenuity!
Pictures of our hike up Seongsan Illcholbon (Sunset Peak ) The rain held off until we got to the top and then the clouds rolled in. It never ceases to amaze me when I hike the mountains in Korea they have steps on most of trails we have been on or rug mat to help keep your traction,
Made it up ! Drenched in humidity and sweat! But so beautiful!
This is the little area where the abolone women divers do their thing. We didn't see any of the divers, but I think there was one lady diving that a couple of the people with us saw,
Our trip to Majanggul Cave - lava flow tunnels from a dormant volcano.
Trying to find a good restaurant! We thought we were going to a pasta and salad restaurant and it ended up being a very expensive, by Korean Standards, Seafood place. We had the Crab Stew (kkotge-jjigae) It was good but way to much work because the crabs were not very big. The other plate was the kids plate and it was Don Katsu also very good! We have really loved the Korean Food here, so much so that I am bringing about 40 pounds home and it's all on my waist and hips! Kind of hard to eat healthy when you're in one of of the food capitals of the world!
This was a little walkway right outside of our hotel. Very beautiful!
We feel so blessed to have served here in Korea and met so many beautiful people but we feel super blessed to have had an opportunity to experience the beauty of the country that they live in! God is definitely the greatest artist of all!
