Mt. Seoraksan Pictures!!

Okay, I finally got the captions added!!

These are pictures from our trip to Mount Seorak. If you have the time I would click on the pictures to see a bigger version...the scenery was just so gorgeous! I'll write captions later...but enjoy the pictures!!

Here are all the girls on the beach. Kat, Jo, me, and Alisha. It was a cloudy, misty day...so we were just there to walk in the sand and say we at least went to the beach!

Maybe one of my favorite pictures of Taylor and I. LOOK AT THOSE TEETH!!! I wish I had a better smile...he was kind of attacking me and I wasn't sure what to think because we were supposed to be posing for the picture, but I like it anyway!

This was our lunch at the first Korean restaurant on the trip. Don't worry they give you little straw pads to sit on...pure luxury!

This is a closer look at lunch...the pork is cooking on the grill in the table. There is some kimchi...actually lots of different kimchi, cabage, cucumber...kimchi in water, pickled raddish, crab in hot pepper paste, cooked mountain greens, boiled egg in soy sauce...all kinds of...deliciousness??

This was our view outside the balcony of our hotel room.

This was a large Buddah at the base of the mountain.

I was just in awe of the water...I LOVED it! I have a partialness (is that even a word???) to water. Water makes everything better...I love the beach, lake, river, pool...anything! If I could be on it all day everyday...I sure would!

All the girls at the start of the hike.

Beautiful picture of the water again.

This is my friend from camp, Eric Richter. Anyone from camp would recognize the t-shirt!

One of my favorite pictures of the water...

Or maybe this one is :)

My hubby!!! Love, love, love him :)

The clear water from waaay far up.

Taylor and I eating lunch by the river. He is eating a sandwich from a box from Paris Baguette (my parents were asking what it was he was eating) Paris Baguette is a chain bakery around Korea...much smaller scale than Panera (or Bread Co. for all you St. Louis people). Everything was pre-made. Lots of people were stopped at that spot in the river for lunch (there was a hostel there and the disgusting hole in the ground bathrooms) and most of the Koreans had their rice and kimchi in little plastic containers...some even had a portable burner and they were cooking their food. Taylor says...no need to work harder...work smarter (or something like that!) They really need to learn to like/eat some sandwiches...what a great invention!

One of my favorite pictures of us from the trip with the waterfall in the back.

There was this one little platform with gorgeous views on all 4 sides. I would have been satisfied just hiking to there just to see that. This is one of the views...it was about 5 hours into the hike.

This is a view from another corner of the platform.

And maybe my favorite view from the platform! I loved the two different colors from the different trees...it made the scenery much more interesting.

Taylor is not a big heights fan...actually he's downright scared of them (sorry babe!) He wasn't happy standing too near the edge!

The sunlight makes this picture!

I'm pausing in the middle of the stairs...and by pausing I mean panting and catching my breath. This was the view down where we had come from...

And this was looking up for what we still had to climb!

Here is part of the hike...we were practically climbing...it was super steep! That's Min climbing with the backpack on and the girls and Taylor standing further down.

This is as high as I got. Not quite the peak, as you read in my last post...but it was as high as I could get with the constraints of time and the limits of my muscles. They weren't even happy going that high...they're still hurting today (Thursday night) the hike was Sunday!

There is a cave at the bottom of the picture in the middle...do you see it?

Well there are my captions. I'm sitting at home comfortable in my bed on Thursday night. I'm exhausted and about to go to sleep and I might update again tomorrow. I have a few more random Korea posts that I want to include.

Later Gator Hater!