Currently Missing: Camping

Something I never thought I would say! Being in Korea and seeing the love the Koreans have for camping and being able to have so many camping options available really made me enjoy it. Our favorite location to go camping so far is the Taean-Haean National Park. It is a beautiful ocean side campsite on the west coast and in order to get a spot close to the shore you most definitely have to get there early! I am really looking forward to the weather warming up so we can get back out and visit Taean again. Here are some pictures from our last trip there back in October:

(My best Yeti impersonation)

Our friend Dan!

Fortunately the Koreans think of absolutely everything in terms of having a good time. I thought to myself, "wow it would be cool if we had some fireworks" and wondered off to a little store down the beach later to see what they were selling, sure enough they had a legit fireworks supply which I took full advantage of:

And much to our surprise the tide went completely out overnight and you could walk so far into the ocean! There were many people searching for clams to eat for lunch!

(This is how Pip likes to drive)

So there you have it, I miss camping. This princess and the pea actually misses sleeping in a tent. So glad winter is almost over!

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A crazy trip to the zoo!

Zak, myself, and one of his friends Ben decided to take a trip to the Zoo, and we all agreed that this was by far the BEST Zoo we have ever been to! The zoo was just south of Seoul, and pretty tricky to get to by train (meaning we would have had to take a train to Seoul and then had back south on a subway to get there) so we decided to drive! It is not too difficult to find your way around Korea with a car, you just tend to get stuck in a lot of traffic.. I mean the whole country is the size of Indiana and there are over 48.6 million people living here.. your bound to get stuck somewhere! We managed to get to the zoo in a little over an hour, which wasnt bad at all. Upon entering we quickly realized that this is a HUGE zoo!

 It housed every animal imaginable even the fennec fox whom we concluded is a close relative to Pip... (notice the size comparison in the ears.. LOL)

The primate exhibit was my favorite, these are not your average orangutans and baboons!

 Unlike America, Koreans find it extremely entertaining to feed the animals. And I had to agree that it is pretty funny seeing monkeys catch shrimp fries! Every animal was up and moving around as opposed to be lethargic, and they all gave quite a show! Somehow these monkey's got a hold of a mylar balloon and were playing 'monkey in the middle' with it...

Zak and Ben's favorite exhibit were the Kangaroo's. We were able to go inside the pen and feed them and pet them!! Here is Zak while we were waiting for the Kangaroo pen to open up, can you sense his excitement? LOL

Ben had a goal to hug a Kangaroo, and im pretty sure he succeeded. Although it was not photographed we witnessed him hugging not one but two kangaroos! Here is one of him feeding a 'roo!

And me:

After walking around the Zoo and eating waffles filled with jam we stumbled up the bear show.. apparently Korean's are all about training bears to do tricks!

And for the grand finale: A crazy monkey with a mohawk in the nursery:

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