Jeju Island

Upon our arrival to Jeju-do we took two different buses and then a taxi to our hotel in Seogwipo. We were all starving so we went out for some korean style pizza and to explore the town a little. The next morning we got up and went to the famous waterfalls in our area. Cheonjiyeon Falls (천지연 폭포) was the first waterfall we visited and it was really beautiful. 

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 Once a boy scout always a boy scout... Nick getting trash out of the water.

The Second waterfall we went to was the Jeongbang Falls (정방폭포)

We went down a lot of stairs knowing that we had to come back up them but it was worth it.

Nick and I climbed on the rocks to get an awesome picture and these two Koreans were clueless. However, we are in every one of their pictures making funny faces. Just so everyone knows the selfie phone holder has gone viral here in Korea...... Crazy!

After photo bombing the guys this happened.......

Our next stop was the beach. We took a taxi to the nearest beach.. name was Jungmun beach. Not even five minutes after we had gotten out of the taxi Mom fell and we went straight to the ER. Turns out she fractured her radial head. They put her in a splint and sling and sent us on our way. We relaxed for the remainder of the day. We attempted the beach again the following day.

 We went back to the beach the following day to photograph the culprit, these rocks! her flip flop clipped a rock that was sticking up more and SPLAT!

As we were walking down to the beach everyone was walking up. Turns out that you can't swim in the ocean past a certain time, who knew?

The next day Nick and I went on a submarine ride!! It was very exciting although the waves were ginormous and people got sea sick. We started out on a boat that took us out to the submarine. 

 We were the first ones on and we got the to sit right next to the captain.

 We had a small monitor in front of us so we could see what was happening topside.

Such a cool experience!

Our last stop on Jeju was the Manjanggul lava cave.  The cave is claimed to be the longest lava tube in the world, but that isn't the case, and it isn't even close!  This cave is different from the ones we have back in Alabama because the stone making up the interior is much harder than the limestone that make up the caves there.  The stalactite and stalagmite formations in the cave were created by the intense heat and natural cooling processes of the lava that flowed through it thousands of years ago.  All in all my general impression of the cave is that it was wet.  The cave has a constant rain due to the many tiny stalactite formations on the ceiling, the coolness of the cave and the humidity in the air.  All in all it was a very cool experience.

We had a great time on Jeju island even though Mom really hurt herself. A quick update on her. She is recovering from surgery well. Turns out she had a piece of bone that chipped off, they had to remove it and take out some dead bone. Then they covered her radial head with a titanium cap. So now she has a little more in common with Wolverine.  Hope she will recover fully!