vacation . . . week 1

so vacation started pretty cool with lunar new years. we went to the sokcho museum and displaced persons villiage. it looked something like this:

here we got to learn a lot about the history of our city, and then eat some traditional korean new years soup which looked like this:

the broth is very basic, the white things are rice noodles which are yummy, and the green things are seaweed. it is very good and they gave it to us for free! you cant go wrong with free :-p

it was an amazing experience to be here during lunar new year and learn more about the culture that we are living in. there were a lot of people who moved here from the north during the korean war and the museum had a displaced persons villiage which showed what the conditions were like for the people who were displaced. they lived in places that looked like this:most of the places were just single rooms, very sobering.

it was probably the coolest thing that we have done so far. we are loving our vacation and are looking forward to go on many more walks. last week we went on 3 walks? each walk was 5 miles. quite fun!

we have quite a bit of pictures. we cant put everything up on facebook or on this blog so if you want to see them just send us a note and we will send you the link.