Mud is Love

So this weekend David and I trekked down south to Boryeong to partake in their annual week long Mud Festival. The day started off with an early morning train ride to take us the 3 hours south. Once we got there we were greeted by David's co-teachers and two rooms in the "love motel", a place that the Korean's are not used to having people actually spend the full night but only a couple hours. From there we went to join the masses in the mud! Everything was centered around a big amphitheater that was having contests and playing music all day. My favorite part was the self paint stations down on the beach. There were just big things of mud with paint brushes in them to paint yourself/others. There was also a mud wrestling pit...kind of crazy but oh so much fun. Other highlights of the weekend include: a never ending shellfish feed (so proud of myself for actually enjoying eating those guys) where we got to cook everything right in front of us, fireworks in the rain, having a very random morning with the boys in the hotel room, getting to chat on the phone with my family, finding real life elephants and getting to watch David turn into a little kid with excitement, getting to see and swim in the ocean, having a strawberry shake while waiting to leave for the train and getting to relax on the way home knowing that pizza and bad tv were waiting. One of the weirdest things was that although it was mainly tourists enjoying the mud and beer there were also quite a lot of Korean families there too. There were also a TON professional photographers sticking their cameras in everyones faces. Apparently there is a huge photo contest and everyone is hoping to catch the best shot of the festival. It was strange to just be walking around or playing in the mud and all of the sudden have 5 or 6 huge cameras in your face. There must also be about a million pictures of David and I covered in mud. Great fun, even if I think there is still mud in my ears.









You know...just feeding elephants. In the middle of a beach town.


We spent a couple hours here watching the people still crazy enough to play in the mud despite the never ending rain and wind.