Jeju Day 2

Japanese-made cave

For Danielle :)

An arch of glass balls

Every girl's dream :D

Just...a...little...further...

He always wants to beat a drum

Our second day started out better because the weather was much, much nicer. Breakfast was not great, but it was more American than what we had the day before. :) We got on the bus and headed for our first destination: Sunrise Peak. With the weather fantastic, I was happy to be next to the ocean and doing a short hike. All along the edge there seemed to be many caves that the Japanese had made to store their artillery during the Korean War. Technically you're not suppose to get near them, but I don't think people read signs. Haha! Along the way we stopped at some lookout points. We saw a submarine surfacing and then watched it descend again. There was like a horse farm or something also in the area because we saw a large group of them eating. After this, we headed to the Glass Castle Museum. This was the coolest part!! Everything was made from glass, even some of the flowers and trees! Everything was so pretty. We spent like an hour and a half or so here. I wanted to buy a souvenir, but of course it was a bit expensive. :) The sun really made some of the art look really pretty, so we are very thankful that the weather was so nice for us. On our way to the next spot, we stopped at a location called Ghost Road. It's an optical illusion that makes you think you are coasting up a hill. After the next stop, we headed to our final place, the botanical gardens. We only had less than an hour here, which was really a bummer because we really like to walk through places like that. It turned out that we were the last ones on the bus, too, because we were trying to explore much of the area. We didn't get to see much of it because 1) we didn't have a lot of time, and 2) because we started our journey off by hiking up a really tall and steep hill. That was really crazy, but great weather! We saw a bamboo garden with large bamboo trees, an herb garden, very old traditional graves, a so called "rock garden" that consisted of only one rock, and even a Korean pheasant! On our way to the airport we stopped at a souvenir shop and of course bought the famous Jeju Island orange chocolate. :) Our trip ended sort of like it started -a delayed flight. We were told it was going to be delayed 40 minutes so we would have time to eat, but Jeremy and I weren't really hungry (nor did I want to eat right before getting on a plane) so we headed to the gate. Thank goodness we did this because it turned out that our flight actually wasn't delayed. They started boarding like 5 minutes after we got to the gate! Only half our group was present also, but everyone made it on the plane. The flight was smooth, but I was thankful when we finally made it home. Our weekend was great, but exhausting. Hope you all enjoyed reading about our trip to Korea's "Hawaii" -Jeju Island.