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부산 Part Two

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This post is mostly just more pictures. Luke took a lot more pictures than I did on the sky capsule ride. They turned out beautiful. The boys and I are getting so tired of posing for all of his pictures. Like unbelievably sick of it. But when I look at the pictures at the end of the day, I'm always grateful to see them. Getting ready to board. Can you tell we are sick of the pictures? I like this picture because you can see the beach train that runs underneath the sky capsule. View at lunch Swimming pool at our hotel- we ended up not swimming there. It was busy and they required swim caps or hats. Haeundae beach in the evening There were so many Korean women taking selfies at the beach. There were even places you could visit to create the most "Instagramable" picture. I hated that part. It all felt vain and self absorbed to me. The beach police. No swimming in the water after 6:00. They take safety seriously here in Korea! My view at breakfast this morning

부산 (Busan)

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We have been in Busan for 2 days and will be leaving tomorrow. We wish we could stay longer! Every place we have stayed in Korea had its own unique feel to it. Busan is the most touristy place yet. Every other place we visited was filled with about 99 percent Koreans. Busan has a more international feel to it. I've seen several white people (American and European), Vietnamese, Indian, and so on. I don't love the touristy aspect to it, but I do love the beach. And our hotel is right on it. This is the first place we've come to where we can get up in the morning and have something to do right outside our door. Yesterday our only mode of transportation was walking which was a first this whole trip. This is the view from our hotel room. When I lie in bed,  this is what I see. Yesterday we ate breakfast at Starbucks and then I went off exploring on my own. The alone time was much needed. I could walk around to my heart's content with no one saying they were hot or tired or b...

Souvenir Shopping and Samyang Beach

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Unfortunately, this was our last day on Jeju Island. Aiden, unsurprisingly was thankful to be nearing the end of our 3 weeks in Korea. We had to be checked out of the Airbnb by 11:30 and because our flight was scheduled to depart at 6:20 that left us with quite a bit of time to kill. As the great planner Kristin is, she decided that we would go souvenir shopping to help pass some time as Aiden and I have money to spend from Grandma & Grandpa. Aiden got some weird orange thing that he is oddly obsessed with. Apparently it is made out of real rabbit fur or something like that. I got like a otter with an orange for my key, a pair of orange (in the shape of 2 oranges) sunglasses, and a glass with sunrise peak molded into the bottom of it. After a while of walking around in the hot sun, it was obvious everyone was getting a bit restless. So we then went to our favorite restaurant in Jeju; Chicken & Dinner. We went there on the first night on the island because it was so close to our...