Wolmi Park: Morning

Sunday before term break, April 26th was a busy and really fun day. It will be posted in two parts: morning and evening.

Our friend Debbie was leaving for her home in Canada in two days and she had wanted to go to Wolmi Park. So Cleo, Ruth, Debbie, Matthew, myself, and one of Cleo's students all gathered together to go.

At the bottom of the park there was an area with traditional games. So we spent some time having fun =)



This is a traditional game where you throw the sticks and based on how many sticks are faced up with Xs on them your piece moves. You can bump peoples markers off the board like Sorry and whoever gets back to the beginning first wins.



Hacky-Sack aka Korean Traditional Game.





I was very excited because there was the seesaw thing we'd played with at the Folk Village.



Ruth and I did much better this time. It's a lot of fun and I wish I could have one!

After playing around we decided to hike up to the top. We'd been to Wolmi Park with our students our first term and it had taken about 40 minutes to get to the top. So we were in for a hike and then we saw this lovely set of stairs! It cut out tons of time walking but it was a long set of stairs.

Finally we made it to the top and the observation tower!

Only a few more steps to go!

Here is a plane landing at the Incheon Airport. The view from the tower was really clear that day and so it made for some good pictures.

Can you see E-Mart? That's the one we go to =)

Wolmido Island is a port and so there are huge ships and lots of different cargo to ship off, especially cars. This ship is huge-- see the tiny car driving past near the right side?

We took this picture in remembrance of our first trip to Wolmi Park. We have a similar picture with Regina, her friend, and Neo in this same spot. We took that picture about a month into our stay in Korea and here we are about a month away from going home. Life is in circles!

At the bottom of the tower was this funny garden area and so we spent a bit of time there playing around with the statues.

This dog reminds me of my Newfoundland dog, Frodo and I miss him so much! I wanted a picture with it because it's just about as big as my dog and looked similar.

Walking down from the park we took an additional set of stairs and walked through another garden area on the way out.

The translation for "Danger" in Korean is "We-hum". That's the pronunciation for "danger". For SDA teachers this is particularly hilarious because of a lesson in our pronunciation book. To remember that 'we-hum' is 'danger' think of a group of people humming with a large piano falling toward them. We hum...DANGER! Get it??

It was nearing lunch time and soon Matthew and I had to be back to meet Kelly Ann at the station so we wanted to eat. Happily China town is nearby so I suggested going and we went!

We ate delicious food and then went on our way to meet Kelly Ann for our second adventure of the day!