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They have quite a few of these here.  Someone said they let out the exhaust from underground parking garages.  Sometimes they paint them, which is nice.  Anyway, I thought this photo Ryan took was a good one.

Before the typhoon (which wasn’t much of a typhoon where we are) hit, a voice spoke to us.  From the wall.  Really.

Who knows what it was saying since we still (surprisingly) don’t speak Korean.  Ryan suggested the possibility that it was Kim Jong Un informing us that North Korea had taken over.  I thought it seemed 1984ish.  Either way, it seemed appropriate to salute the Voice in the Wall. 

Yesterday our park was filled with a small market-like festival thing-of-sorts.  The best part was the people dancing to K-Pop.

Try to find her in this photo. It’s like ‘Where’s Waldo?’ but without any red.

Mom wanted pictures of the stores we shop in.  One of them, Home Plus, is a large, multi-level store a couple blocks from our apartment.  It’s always exhausting shopping in Home Plus because we don’t know where things are and can’t ask for help.  So, yesterday, I was hungry and we took advantage of one of the fast food restaurants within the store.  I think that’s my new strategy:  take a break and have a snack while shopping.

One of the highlights of our national park walk (not hike):  the cats that live in the park.  Can you tell we miss Celeste?

Yesterday we went to a national park just a few subway stops from our apartment.  When we got off the subway, we decided to follow a couple of people who had backpacks and hiking clothes on.  Suddenly we were in a swarm of hikers all in bright hiking clothes so it was pretty easy to figure out how to get there. 

They know how to do rest stops in Korea.  This one had massage chairs you could use for free.

The first day we were at the retreat center, the ocean was pretty calm.  But on Thursday our friendly typhoon came back to visit.  So by Friday, even though the rain was gone, we had big waves and plenty of wind.  I ate pancakes on the beach; it was wonderful.

We chaperoned the secondary students on a retreat last week.  We stayed in this beautiful retreat center on the eastern coast of the penninsula.