Saturday morning we got up early to go jog, walk down to the
water (actually to the seawall). Ben hopped up on the huge barriers to walk a
distance. The weather was overcast in the morning, but by afternoon it was
gorgeous.
On our way to the seawall and then coming back to the hotel
we passed by a fence/wall that was made of many individual ceramic tiles that
children had decorated themselves. I had Ben crouch down beside this one of
smooching people. He wasn't pleased with
my choice.
Mom and Dad by the Happy Smile tile.
You
can barely see a lighthouse off the left hand side tip of land actually I think
it is on a tiny island. There were a few tiny islands scattered not far off the
coast.
Walking back to the hotel after dinner this is the street
sign that we saw: We Love Having You Here.
After Ben came home from school, he and I flew down to Jeju
Island. This weekend we had district
conference, the last of all our stake and district conferences. It was raining
and cooler weather than what we left behind in Busan. By the time Dad picked us up at the airport
and we found our way to the hotel we were HUNGRY! We walked from the hotel to a pizza
restaurant, Mr. Pizza. Here is a picture of the front of their menu.
Advertising for women. Really, the choice
of restaurant was determined by the next door business Baskin Robbins! Of
course we got ice cream for dessert.
On our way to church Ben and I thought how gorgeous the day
turned out, the view was beautiful, and so I took his picture. After then Saturday night session we all were
hungry so Dad, Ben, Elder Ringwood, and I walked to the Baskin Robbins for an
ice cream cone. Dad said that he was an ice cream magnet.
Ben and I walked to the church with Dad and Elder Ringwood,
in the afternoon, and then walked back to the hotel. We went with them early so
that we could find our way to the church on our own when we needed to go later
for the Saturday night session of district conference. On our way back to the
hotel Ben and I saw this statue with a sign of explanation. We first saw these statues when we walked out
of the airport. We saw them near shrines and other tourist attractions, and
just around the island. Someone told us
you can buy statues but they are expensive.
This tile reminded us of Katie. We saw so many cute,
different, unique tiles. And, actually, we said amongst ourselves a number of
times that you would have liked this one, or another one, or another. Some were
three dimensional. Each decorated in a fun way.
Here is the view from our room on the 16th floor of our
hotel. If you look to the left you will see the larger building, roof, with its
three gardens. Saturday we saw a woman with her dog on top, when she must have
been hanging her laundry out to dry. On Sunday we saw a number of people (I’m
guessing all together) harvesting from the garden closest to the hotel. The
upper part of the right side of the picture shows a church that we walked
nearby when we went down to the water. I
was surprised at the colorful rooftops Also, the gardens on top, or variety of
shapes and sizes and angles of buildings.
