Muuido Island

So for the Fourth of July weekend and Qasem's last weekend we all went to Muuido Island.  This island is off the west coast of Korea and very near Incheon.  We had an amazing time and the best day ever.  We arrived early Saturday morning and then spent the night.  Nic and Qasem really wanted to camp so they stayed in a tent and Lauren and I got a small room just to sleep in.  Here are some pictures of the amazing weekend!

The ferry ride from the mainland to the small island.

The girls all ready for fun!

Qasem so happy to be going camping and fishing!

On the ferry people buy chips and feed the seagulls as we go.  The whole ride was only about 5 minutes!

This lady just successfully fed a seagull and safely!

Just exploring the ferry.

Made it to the other side and they had some really neat looking fishing boats. 

Buying some last minute supplies!

My new Korean friend who wanted to just talk about our plans and his for the weekend.  he was headed for a hike up a mountain for the day.

Almost ready to take the last leg of the trip.

So excited

Finally at the beach and scoping out a camping spot.  Such a nice day.  It was warm with cloud cover and not many people at all.

The Hyatt at the beach!  I found this really funny.

The spot.

So the tide at this beach goes out really far during the day and then comes in for a little at night and goes back out later at night.  A very popular thing to do here because of this is to go clamming and then cook what you find.

Doing some exploring while camp is being set up.

Cass

The wild men and the wood they found for our camp fire.  When we first saw the guys come around the corner with all this wood it looked like they had a dead Christmas tree and we wondered where the Christmas lights were.  

The boys needed some rocks for the fire so Lauren, Cass and I went scavenging for rocks.  Of course we had to take some fun pics along the way.

Introducing Cass to the great outdoors!

Some random, huge blue bin we walked by.  So of course I want to get inside.  Don't worry.  There was a big hole in the back.

I can really jump!

Lauren attempting a hand stand I was supposed to hold her legs but did not go so well.

Camp is ready.

This is a Korean lady clamming.

Qasem joined in and so did I.

Clamming involves a lot of mud and you get very messy.  Our feet after.

Headed out again with more people.

First we had to cook and eat some of the clams we caught before.  I actually tried one and it was pretty good!

Having an awesome time looking for the little clams.

We got quite a lot.

Vineyards were at the entrance to the beach area.

Random shoes on the beach.  Only one of each and no pairs in site.

It was out fourth of July weekend and goodbye Qasem so we had to have fireworks.  These are sparklers and they make for the coolest pics.

E for Erin!!

Fireworks

Now campfire time.

It did finally begin to rain on us later so we got to put on our very fashionable ponchos!

Finally time to go home and it was raining nice and hard.  Here we finally bought our own chips and wanted to feed the seagulls.  It is actually very scary to hold out a chip and some bird is supposed to bite the chip and not you.

My feeding the seagulls and I fed quite a few of them.

Lauren was a bit nervous but when she closed her eyes she finally fed one.

Since the tent the boys had was not so much water proof they did not sleep so well.  here is Nic passed out tired on the bus back home.

We had an awesome weekend and I love how in Korea you can take these small vacations on a weekend.  It is so easy to get places in Korea and so many places to go it makes for nice mini vacations and getting out of the city.  The time has come where the people here are going home because their year is up and Qasem is the first to go.  Going to be sad to see everyone go their different ways but it means more adventures are to come for us.  As for me I still don't have much of a clue what I am going to do but I have a couple ideas.  I also have 8 more weeks to think about it!