Being able to laugh about life!

Anytime we get sick we get the same treatment. We go to the hospital, get a shot in our behind, and then receive a cocktail of pills that we must take for 3 days. We never know what's going into our body, and usually the pills give us acid reflux.

This sign is about 4 feet tall. All of Korea's construction men-working signs, firefighter signs, doctor signs, police signs.... they all are these pictures of little cartoon people. We never know how serious we should react to them.


Washing feet and floor at the same time

















Check out the little guy on the right side of the sign.






Anything you want to eat in Korea, ANYTHING, comes in green tea flavor. Cereal, gum, perfume...







Jake getting a mohawk haircut.





Hiking a fortress wall in the middle of the night.







Neither of these pictures are that great; we were trying to be discrete. But check out that fashion statement!



























These bunny shaped trees are on the top of a fancy shopping mall.

A small collection of our dumpster diving finds. It has grown since the picture was taken. Now we have a couple of couches!

Banana Hammock

Tiny, little bikes.



















Some big blue guy that comes around at Christmas time.























This fruit is pronounced like "shumway"
















Alien orange longjohns.















The United States is definitely not the center of the Universe


A urinal with a view.

Will we miss riding the subway everywhere?

Old men falling asleep on their canes....














Students falling asleep on my shoulder....





















....well one or two things will be missed.

Would you like an apple?

They are individually wrapped and it'll only cost you 3 dollars!

Temple of 1,000 Buddhas

A couple of weekends ago we visited one of the many Buddhist temples here in Korea. This one was by far the most extravagant of all. Foreigners call it the "temple of 1,000 Buddhas," but I'm sure that can't be the real name. However, there were literally hundreds of thousands of statues on this mountain.



Some of these statues were 40 meters tall! I had never seen so many statues, so grand, and all in one place. The monks who live here must love it!



All of these gold reflections are small buddhas with different people's names on them. Seriously, there could have been a million buddhas at this place! The pictures don't do it justice.







We like to call this one the buddhist tabernacle choir. Here are 500 golden buddhas, there are 500 more on the other side of another 100 foot tall statue... and they're all about the size of a human person.













Here you can put some dollar bills in his hand.

I think these are monk burial grounds. Each headstone has a buddha sitting in the opening.

You can purchase a candle and light it as part of your worship. Jake barely caught a picture of me in the background.

You can also purchase a fish wind chime and write a prayer on it.


We like Happy Buddha :) The copper has really been tarnished but it still looks beautiful.














It was really hard to capture the grandeur of this temple by film. The mountains rolled for miles and the statues just kept getting taller and more detailed. It is definitely a site to see if visiting Korea.