This is going to be a bit of a long one because it is spanning over 3 days. This is our holiday we took this last week the 10th through the 12th of November.

Day 1

November 10th

Our days went from 0730 to about 2000 (8pm). We spent most of the time in the bus for the first day, which we where happy to do since it was raining the whole day with some good winds making it super cold too. Our fist stop after getting lunch was a the Gyeongju National Museum. It was really interesting having the guide explain some of the history of Korea to us and how each century brought about something different, for instance they know when their written language was thought up and by who (a king, forget which one though.)

On our way, it was a 5 hour trip to the museum with a 1 hour lunch stop.

This is a pagoda at the museum.

After the museum we went to the Cheonmachong Tombs. They are (as seen above) mounds. Each mound is a different tomb for a noble person or king. They aren't sure completely because there are no indications of it being a male or female in the tomb.

My smerf, they gave us ponchos to wear because it is raining and windy.

Our smerf group going into the one tomb we could go in to. Tomb it self is a wooden box surrounded by rocks and then dirt. It's a pretty thief proof tomb so all the things are still in the tomb when they excavate them. They haven't excavated all the tombs in the area because of that reason too. :) After the tombs we went to the hotel. To say something about Korean hotels, they are not meant for those who like soft beds. They beds are hard to the Korean specifications because they sleep on the floor most of the time so they make the beds to mimic the floor and they have central heating for the same reason. All i have to say is that we where not prepared for that and the next day spent a lot of the time on the bus taking naps.

Day 2

November 11th (Veteran's Day)

My forced picture, i think we look really out of it. The next day we went on tour of the Bulguksa Temple and Sokguram

After the temple we went on a tour of the Hyundai Motor company factory and saw how they made the cars and learned some information about the company. We then toured the shipping yard and got information about the Hyundai Heavy Motor company. I know my dad and Weldon would have loved to see the welding they where doing on the huge ships. Once we where done looking at all that we moved on and stopped to see the lighthouse and the ocean, i didn't go out to see it but Jordon did and he said it was cool. It was getting late and we still had a dinner to get to hosted by the Hyundai Motor Company.

Center piece for our table at the dinner, it was getting pretty late and everyone at our table wanted to eat and then sleep. The day overall was really exciting since we got to go to a lot of places, it was also wet and tiring at the same time. We had a buffet dinner and some really nice deserts :)

Lucky to have some short speeches but very much to the point and understandable. Very grateful for Hyundai in sponsoring this 3 day tour.

Jordon and me, i think we where trying to make it as fun as possible while waiting for everything to start, we where getting tired at this point.

Day 3

November 12th

We packed up and left our hotel and made our way to Osan to the Task Force Smith Memorial. We did a little ceremony and the commander that was with us said a little speech. After this we went to lunch at another korean restaurant.

We went to Suwon afterwards and did some archery and toured around the Hasang Fortress. Everyone was really happy that the last day was so sunny and clear, by this time i think we had had enough of the rain and wet grounds.

Jordon getting into the rice box. It was funny to see him in it.
This is a game where you try to get the other person to jump high. Jordon and another guy got it going really well but one of them ended up falling off. Apparently this is a woman's game lol.

We went to dinner at a korean BBQ place where we cooked our own food. It was funny having a lot of americans cooking their own food and have know idea really how to do it. Over all the third day ended really well too and we said our good byes to our tour guide and we took our buses back home. Jordon had picked up Jack that night from our friends house that he was staying at. Over all the 3 day tour was a lot of fun and it was interesting learning about the Korean culture and why they do some things.