Sunday, May 31, 2009

Jeju-do Day 2

The first hotel we stayed in was on the southern side of the island, so, we decided to explore that area. Our first stop was the teddy bear museum. It was very cute and had a lot of different teddy bears. They had old bears and bears with a theme and bear depicting events and movies. They had the worlds smallest teddy bears and a really big teddy bear. Grace liked it so much that she opened up a fruit stand with one of the bears (not really).
After the teddy bear museum, we walked down to one of Jeju-do's many beaches. The path had these special walkways that have rocks that are designed to massage your feet as you walk... in reality... you're walking on rocks... and that kinda hurts. But, we made it down to the beach and it was very pretty. The blue sky, the clear water, the warm sand, and, of course, amazing Grace... it was really nice and gave me a lot to think about. After relaxing on the beach and freezing in the ocean for a little while, we had a buffet lunch and walked to, what we thought were, famous, rectangular, volcanic, rock formations. Along the way, we stopped at the Lotte Hotel and took pictures of their windmills.
After the "rock formations", we walked around the area some more and eventually ended up back on the beach. From there we continued our waterfall hunt and were more successful than the other day. We saw three waterfalls that day and a place where a forth should have been if there was more water/rain. However, one of the waterfalls was closed by the time we got there and we snuck in after most of the people had gone home.

After our small amount of trespassing, we headed back and had dinner. Another famous dish on Jeju-do is a seafood stew. It was very interesting to see your food more around in pain as it boils and cooks in front of you. It was pretty good, though. It was another beautiful and fun day.

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