Rafting Trip

We went with Nick and Mike on a rafting trip this weekend. In Korea if you want to go on a trip--whether it be sightseeing, hiking, or rafting --you go on an organized tour. It's not necessary for all things, but most people do it. We do most things independently, but this weekend we signed up to go on a rafting tour. They picked us up in this fancy bus, gave us rice cake for breakfast, took us to do some sightseeing, fed us lunch, and took us down the river for less than 50 bucks. Pretty good deal, we thought! We were the only foreigners on the tour, so we were watched after all day and asked by numerous people to have their picture taken with us. It's weird how you just get used to all the unwanted attention you receive here for being a foreigner. This is the last weekend of summer vacation for the schools and companies, so the river was packed! It was a lot of fun though. The river wasn't too big, but it was so beautiful. I wish I would have been able to bring my camera on the boat (we had a few close calls though, so it's good I didn't have it). One thing we thought was interesting (and a little funny) was that not only was nobody wearing their swimming suit, but about half the people there were wearing jeans. Our favorite though was the girl wearing a skirt and high heels. Korean women do love their heels, but wearing them on a raft might be a little overboard.



Here we are sightseeing and following around our tour guide. We had no idea what she was talking about, so we mostly just goofed off in the back of the crowd.



Here's a glimpse of how much commotion was going on on the river. The river was crowded, and they squeezed 12 people in each raft.

Will and Hadden will be here Friday! We're so excited, we could wet ourselves!