gotcha-hadya...I have a caloose on my foot, oh dear.

This past Wednesday was a Korea's Memorial Day, which meant we had the day off work. After waking up a bit groggy and an awful nauseating bus ride to Busan, some friends and I went to SeongJeong beach - a beach much less touristy/built up than other Busan beaches. On our way there Emma pointed out all the Korean flags hanging outside of the large monolithic concrete apartment buildings. They were hung at half mast to remember the fallen soldiers. I wish I had a picture.

This beach quickly proved to be one of my favorite places in Korea. It was nestled into a rather large cove and it felt more like we had escaped from Gimhae, and even Busan to a cool little beach town. We had gone with intentions to go surfing (with lessons of course), but when we got there the swells were piddly - hardly enough to boogie board on. Despite the small swells, there was still a good strong wind so we decided to give wind surfing a try. For 50 "bones" we were able to rent a wind surfing board and wetsuit for 3 hours plus a private lesson. Our lesson was a joke. It basically consisted of a little Korean man who drew images in the sand of a our board, our sail and the wind. He showed us how to pull the sail up and how our feet should be placed on the board, then he dragged us out in the ocean and let us be...until we got too far out and he had to drag us back in with the dingy. All in all it was awesome and exhausting, but I hope to go again soon. We were also able to rent kayaks, boogie boards, go for rides behind seadoos on these blow-up torpedo type things (can't remember the name), play frisbee and drift freely into the mindset of being glorious beach bums.

Kelsey & I in our wetsuits all ready to goooo

One of the rented kayaks

By 5ish(?) the wind had gotten stronger and the temps cooled so we decided to head back to Gimhae. Before we boarded the bus we thought it would be nice to sit somewhere and have a nice drink before heading back to reality. We ended up at Bennegins where we knew we'd be able to have red wine by the glass.

Emma, Kelsey & me sun-kissed and enjoying our vino

It turned out to be one of, if not the best day I've had in Korea and as the hot temps and humidity continue to rise, I can't wait to get back there...