Korean Church and Hikers Paradise (well, almost)

So this weekend me and Kyle and Amy went to Korean Church. It was a big Presbyterian church by my house. Seven stories tall.....but actually a surprisingly small sanctuary...like 300 maybe...We were all kinda nervous, but everyone was really nice and seemed to enjoy having us. The service was decent...the music was old hymns that had been translated, so for the most part we knew the tunes and a lady who spoke decent english had the words. The sermon was unitelligble of course (I counted six words I knew.....) and on some obscure text from Chronicles. Whoot. The pastors voice I must say was probably the least annoying one I've encountered thus far - which is good, because if you're going to sit for an hour and a bit not understanding anything, an annoying voice would make it just that much worse :)

As for the hiking, there are all sorts of trails through the mountains here. Everywhere....see a mountain, walk toward it, find a trail through some weird field, and voila, you'll have a hike. Even if your trail happens to be kinda piddly, you'll eventually run into the main trails. Works every time. I've gone a couple times a week before I work since I have a good portion of the day before I head to work (usually around 2:30 or so for 3:30 class) and am usually in the market for something to do besides sit on my computer. (BTW, my apartment is the building to the left of the red one in the foreground)

Its sort of like explorers paradise...except when you conquer the mountain (and some of them are about 450m...kinda like Finlayson, or Jocelyns peak) you see nothing. There's still dense foliage all around. Its aggravating. Imagine going up Finlayson and seeing nothing but more trees. Every hike I've done around here except one has had zero view.

I was so annoyed at this lack that I climbed a power pole on one peak for a decent view. Even then its just sort of meh.....

Explorers paradise - almost, photographers paradise - no. And try taking pictures while you're balancing half way up a power pole....its a good time...

And this is the best I've seen in terms of wildlife....he was at about 400 metres, which I thought was strange...but apparently thats normal for Asiatic Toads. Go Figure.

PS its STILL 30+ degrees here. Getting pretty sick of it, not going to lie.