Picture Update

This is Yeonwha-do Island. About a 40 minute ferry ride from Tongyeong. I'd say about 2 weekends a month the clan here heads out to hike an island or find a near by mountain to scale. This might be the coolest island we've found yet.

More of beautiful Yeonwha-do. We managed to figure out a way off the path and down to the waters edge. When we got there, we discovered there was a path down. We felt adventurous, so not a total loss.

Steve and I in the morning of the ferry to the island. As cool as these islands are, the terminal only schedules approx. 4 ferries a day. Meaning, you have to catch the earliest there and the latest back in order to have time to hike. This equals packed boats.

I wanted to show you what "sack lunch" looks like here. This is the teacher's fare.. all food made for the teachers by their class president's mothers. Not your typical PB&J.

The above pic is me looking off the cliff just shy of the summit of Mireksan Mountain (which is redundant because "san" means mountain so the actual mountain's name is only Mirek). This is the day I took 300 of my most favorite 6th graders hiking. I kicked their butts. Seriously.

Here's a group of them. Sweaty, exhausted, annoyed that they are forced to hike, and yet still throwin out the peace sign. Good kids.

These 2 pics are from the Jeju Gnarly Nines 2009 international frisbee tournament. Jeju is a very large island off the southern coast of Korea where this lovely tourney is held every year. We played of plush grass fields (there's no such thing in Korea, so this is big time), ate free meals, drank free beer, and threw some discs around in the sun shine. Korea A took home the gold, Shanghai the silver, and I believe either IKU from Japan or Big Brother from Beijing took the bronze. Please note the 2L water bottles filled with beer rather than water.

So Steve and I found this little neighborhood in our own Tongyeong that made our jaws drop. Up on this hill overlooking the harbor we found a row of houses covered in murals by artists from all over Korea. It was amazing.

We're funny... Looking. Funny looking.