Okpo and Goesong.

Last weekend was actually quite eventful despite the rain and cold weather. It was a pretty sight since we had never been that far into Okpo. The Harbor had these huge cement "Jack" shaped barriers to keep back the waves. They were actually really fascinating, and you could walk out on them, so of course we did and we got a few pictures in the process.

Harbor View

You can see the Art Museum, the big partial dome thing towards the left of the photo. We didn't get a chance to go that day, but we will sometime in the future, especially now that we know where to go! It is fairly cheap too, so maybe we will save it for a rainy day one weekend.

More jacks!

Across the bay you could see a small red light house on the other side, there were two, the one on our side was white. People come out here and go fishing since it is so close to the ocean, although the only thing we saw anybody catch was a piece of seaweed.

The white light house on our side.

Another picture of the red Light house from farther back.

And this time with ME!

Joseph had to climb out on the things, so I got one of him with the ocean as the background. I love this picture!

We walked around town a bit, and really the only thing worth taking a picture of was this guy.... You can kinda see the sign on the glass behind him... the place was called Pizza Etang.... I don't know if they meant to say " Pizza Eating"... but Etang is kinda funny.

After a long day of walking and exploring, we went to an Indian/Pakistan restaurant where the head guy who owns it is really nice, plus the food is really good, and a bit different from the Korean spicy that we eat most weeks. It was a nice enjoyable meal of Chicken Sheh Kabab ( Not shisk Kebab, this chicken was ground up and served over onions) with a side of Palek Paneer( spinach with cheese) and really good Indian bread called Non. We have eaten here a few times and the guy remembered us so he gave us a free coke this time! We will certainly go back.

Our next day, Sunday, was supposed to be our outing day since we got a late start and had to go to okpo, since it was raining we figured we would go to a totally different place, just try taking a bus to somewhere cool... So we went to the bus station and paid 5,000 won to go to Goesong... we just wanted to see what was there and if any of it was interesting. We ended up not finding too much, and in the rain it was kinda gross... It was neat to explore though, I just wish there had been more to see!


Goesong is famous for having lots of dinosaur bones, And they have an outdoor Dino Museum, but since it was an outside thing, and it was a freezing dismal day, we decided to just explore and come back to do dino day another time. Here is the Outdoor traditional Market. We always stumble across this.

Walking through the town we saw this garden drying leaves or something, I love being able to see the more traditional side of Korea, rather than the commercial westernized side of it.

The House next to the garden

I wish these steps had led somewhere awesome, as it was there was just a big pile of trash at the top. I cut that out of the picture. I wonder what they used them for, they were so tiny and steep it seems that it would be difficult to use them for anything.

Candid "it's raining" artsy picture of Joseph. ( And by artsy, I mean blurry)

One thing about Korea that does bug me on occasion, is there are no public waste recepticals.... I mean seriously, how hard is it to put a dumpster behind a huge apt building.... We were walking by this pile though, and almost contemplated stealing the white and black sign in hanguel to hang in our apartment, but there was gross stuff stuck to the back, so we let it sit in the garbage pile. Korean people do this often, you will sometimes find entire bedroom sets ( in relatively good condition mind you) just hanging out on the street. Such a waste I think...

This was my artsy Forlorne "can we go home" picture.... the rain was starting to pick up and it was getting colder....

I call this one " Joseph in the rain with bamboo"... we saw some bamboo finally, it took long enough... I thought the stuff grew everywhere, but apparently only behind dirty apt buidlings.

The trucks in korea are very different from the ones in America, Most any truck you see is simply a utility vehicle.... which is odd to me having grown up in Raleigh and in Boone, you see trucks constantly, but this is the closest thing I have seen to a real truck, and it is a pitiful example.

And more with the Dinosaurs.

And More dions.... they were everywhere.... literally.

Rice field.... they are everywhere too!

And just because as soon as I saw it, I realized this was the first fire hydrant I have seen since coming to Korea.

Not too exciting of a trip for us either. We had fun, although we will probably just come back on a sunny warm day to see the dino museum....Not too much else...

We are planning a few trips to Seoul, Maybe Daegu, Back to Busan and to many more places.

As for now, we are going to clean the apartment, and prepare for school tomorrow.