Provinians and The Sacred Pool plus a note for non-facebookers

This weekend we had the pleasure of some visitors from Seoul that used to go to Prov - Krista and Jennell. I didn't really know them before, but we've seen them a couple times on our Seoul Costco runs, and they came out for the weekend to join us for a hike. It was fun....makes you realize there was lots of people you didn't know at school. Anyway, we had a killer bunnies tourney and it was definitely fun seeing some fresh faces and speaking some good English. Though at times the quality of speech seemed to suffer from lack of use.

We took them out to Chiaksan, the national park out here with the huge mountain that I climbed my first week here. The gang didn't end up being game for the ascent, so we meandered along the trails and enjoyed the river scenery. This pool is one of the most beautiful places I've been. Unfortunately it was afternoon which limits the photographic potential.....but you'll get the idea. The air is fresh and clean and everything seems right when out in these woods. Besides the hordes of hikers that is (rolling eyes) Can't escape the people anywhere.



We were hoping to get Kyle and Amy a warmup before we head out to Seoraksan next week. Seoraksan is Koreas most famous mountain range and national park and we're going on a three day trip through there next weekend (yea long weekends!) World famous for its changing fall colours. Crossing my fingers that my compatriots are going to be up to it. Also that I don't blow an ankle or something early in the trip. I don't have great hiking shoes.




There's lots of these prayer stack thingies wherever we go. Its really bad luck to knock them over. When we were there a guy knocked a bunch over by accident and almost got glared to death by a pack of ajumas. If you don't know what they are, read this post by my friend Mike. I was going to write about Ajumas, but he basically wrote what I was going to...so check it out, its worth it. http://mquiring.blogspot.com/2008/08/ajuma.html They're scary in the subways.

Anyway, that's my weekend update.....currrently I'm kinda down and wishing I was home. Hope you're all doing well.....

~Matt

Anyone wanting to see more photos that doesn't have a facebook account (I can't think of many...but anyway) you can see all of my korean facebook photos here in order of newest to oldest posted.

Album #3 http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=33114&l=25899&id=515047862

Album #2 http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=29579&l=09558&id=515047862

Album #1 http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27120&l=1c8c7&id=515047862