It's Summer time!

The Summer is here and it is HOT! Similar to PR hot (in it's hottest day), but over there you get the nice ocean breeze... none of that here!!! HOT my ppls... 

When you peak your head out the door it's the same feeling as when you're baking something and you open the oven door to check... Woshhh... a heat wave right on your face! It must be 100% humidity or something... you spend the whole day soaked! Hot & sticky = stinky : P 

While living here I've realized 3 things when it comes to seasons and weather;

1. I love having seasons
2. I am absolutely a Winter person
3. I don't like being hot... at all!

Ohhhhh (sigh).... How I miss having the ocean 10 minutes away! 

I guess taking 5 showers a day will have to do for now...The beauty of city living! : P

So, last month S. had a day off from work and he prepared a little surprise adventure for us. He rented a car and took us for a drive to the West side of Korea, outside Seoul. We went there maybe hoping to go and eat some seafood by the ocean. We had just seen this episode of a Drama where the guy took the girl to a sashimi restaurant right on the water... it looked sooo beautiful in that scene!

Well... we didn't find that place (apparently it's on the East side, where beaches are nicer). We still had a great day... if I don't take into account the 3 hours we spent driving there... with 2 little ones... locked up in the car... you know what I mean!!! ; )

This beach was called Muchangpo in Boryeong-si, Chungcheongnam-do.

The drive itself was beautiful. I got to see some pretty scenes, cool bridges and really beautiful landscapes and rice farms, not the flat ones I've seen so far, but ones in mountains. They looked like stairs almost... really pretty! As much as I tried getting an image of this, from the car it was impossible. Also, it was a very gloomy/misty day... not the best visibility. We didn't stop because the kids were sleeping at that point, and we have one car rule;

If kids are asleep

• NO STOPPING

& we finally got there...

Supposedly, something really cool happens during the tides of the Summer season, similar to when Moses parted the Red Sea, the ocean opens up and a path emerges from it. You could walk through it for a couple of hours a day. They say you can come across snails and octopuses stranded on this path.

We did not get to see this. : (

& Marky was sooo exited...

& Olivia was happy to...

She looooves water! Came out a fishy, like her Daddy. ♥

Little girl playing... 

& we went shell hunting...

& I put her on the bare sand for the first time... ever...

Then Da-da picked her up... : )

& Marky tried to build a sand castle...

While the girls wondered around...

& found some interesting things...

Like some tiny villas. They must be vacation rentals. I peaked inside and it was empty. It's basically just so you could sleep indoors... most Koreans, as you may know, sleep on the floor. They each had a stack of chairs outside and a table with the BBQ setup in the middle. 

& instead of beach chairs, there are beach tables. Pretty smart if you ask me... your food won't get sand on it. : )

& there were clams waiting to be eaten...

& fishies too... 

& we rented a bicycle...

& we went for a ride...

Since it was pretty chilly that day and the water was cold, no one went in the water. We also did not eat there, cause there wasn't really anything for Marky or me to eat. The restaurants there were either sashimi, (which I'm not there yet) or clam and oyster based soups (which I happen to be allergic to shellfish)...  How "shellfish" of me... poor S. he refused to eat by himself. 

So we hit the road once more... 

& we stopped at a rest stop and the food there was pretty decent. No McD' ppls... We had dok ramen, kimbap & miso soup with a side of pickled radish, cabbage salad & kimchi. 

And after, a whole other 3 hours drive back home... 

Yes... I think 5 showers a day will have to do for the Summer...

xoxo

T. : )