Everland

We went to Everland finally. This is like the 3rd largest, or something like that, theme park in the world. We have so many students who would talk about coming here, but we never got around to it. The day we decided to go was also a rainy day. I forced Jeremy to still go, and we are glad we did. It took about 2 1/2 hours to get there, ugh. When we got there it was still raining, so we decided to buy ponchos so we wouldn't get too soaked. Funny thing is, we put them on for about 5 minutes and it quit raining and never rained again. Hahaha!! :D Oh well, better safe than sorry. But because of the rain, many rides were not running. Instead we headed to things that were inside. Thankfully, not shortly after this a ride, The Flume, opened up and we only had to wait like 10 minutes to ride it. As we were waiting in line, we saw the wooden roller coaster start running so we planned to go there next. Our friend Ward was telling us about the wooden roller coaster: it has the steepest decline for a wooden roller coaster in the world. Oh my gosh!! I braved up and decided to ride it; so did Jeremy. We waited in line for about 20 or so minutes. As we climbed up in the roller coaster I started to get nervous because I knew what was coming. I think Jeremy was already nervous in line. :) When the drop came I screamed bloody murder! It was so scary! From there you do another drop, tight turns and a bunch of camel humps. I screamed pretty much through the entire thing. At the end of it, I wasn't sick and I was happy to do it again! :D We did ride it a second time, but at night. That was scary too! I screamed again at the first drop, and practically through the whole thing. My voice is still a little hoarse today ( 4 days later). After this, we walked around the park more and found a Safari. This was cool! We saw about 6 white tigers, a bunch of lions just roaming the street, a few Bengal tigers, and..... a LIGER!! Neat! There were also bears trained to walk and wave. We were in a bus so we were able to get up very close to the animals. Fun experience! :D In another location, I paid $1 to feed the birds so one could land in my hand. Then it flew away and scared me a little bit. :D There were many other attractions we saw and did, and some were fun, some were stupid, and some were just interesting. We were happy to have met up with our friend Ward and his friend Joe. It made our experience all the more better. Over all we had a great time at Everland, and would gladly do it again.

A VERY scary, but fun roller coaster

Bird flew out of my hand

It walks!

The wooden roller coaster

It's a Liger!

Camel with two humps!

Random

My attempt at using the new camera. Jeremy was eating away at our $6 half watermelon that had tons of seeds.










I baked a lot yesterday! I made chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookie cutouts, Jell-O cookies, chocolate sherbet, and chocolate pudding. The pudding didn't work, and we haven't tasted the sherbet yet. On the sugar cookies I made a new icing recipe that was super easy. Then I flavored it with waffle flavoring that my mom gave me, then added a bit of cocoa powder so it wasn't white. It tastes really good! The Jell-O cookies were made with a packet of strawberry Jell-O mix. They are actually pretty good!

 At the Sorae fish market. Disgusting!!

Our lunch on Saturday at Sorae Estuary. Delicious? You decide. :)

Just look at my pretty toes!

There was a rainstorm and this what I looked after only like 5 minutes of walking in it. I ended up having to change my clothes twice that day. :(

From our ATV/rafting trip a few weeks ago with Kenny.

Busan

Haeundae Beach

The APEC House

President Cho and his wife

A Buddist Temple

For our 5 day weekend, we went to Busan for 4 of them. Busan is in the southeastern part of Korea. You can even take a ferry to Japan from there! We had a lot of fun here mainly because it wasn't Ansan. :) From the pictures you can see a beach. This beach is the most famous beach in Korea. It's even in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most parasols up and open at one time! The following weekend, supposedly, was the peak season having about 1 million people at the beach literally. Oh my!! That same day we met a man who called himself  President Cho. We met him on the subway and he was delighted to speak to us in English. We got his business card and he is the president of the company that deals with customs for foreigners. He wanted to meet up later at the beach, so we did. He and his wife took us to the APEC House, showed us the history of Haeundae, told us information about the Ohrukdo islets, and about Camilla Park. Another day we walked to the tower that was next to our motel. It's very popular to put a lock on the fence. I think it has to do with love. We didn't do it because we didn't have a lock. :( From there we journeyed to two Buddist Temples. The first was atop a small mountain. First we went through the forest and Jeremy went crazy with the camera. Then we looked at the temple itself. From there, we went to the next temple that was next to the water, but it was like over an hour bus ride because of traffic. Ugh! We finally made it, and it was an interesting one; different from the others. There was a huge golden buddha as well as a female buddha. Apologies about the last picture. I was tired of waiting for Jeremy to take his millions of pictures. :D That was our lovely trip to Busan and we had a great time.