Waterfall

This last weekend was a big Korean Holiday called Chusok. I guess it is similar to our Thanksgiving holiday but there holiday lasts for 3 days. This holiday is a time be with your family and aparently its weird if you have any friends or guests over. During these 3 days they visit grandparents and everyone goes over to gravesights to pay tribute to their ancestors. This year the event happened to fall on Friday, Saturday and Sunday; so we were only supposed to get one day off of work. But on Wednesday our boss pulled me into her office to talk about our work schedule for the following week and at the end she told me that we wouldn't be having school on Thursday either. So yea! we got a 4 day weekend. We were actually kind of annoyed because our principle has the habit of not informing us of things until the last minute and this was just yet another incidence of this. We are pretty sure she knew that we wouldn't have school this day long before she actually told us, because she said she had already sent out newsletters with all the students to inform the parents. If we would have known in advanced we would have been able to plan some sort of trip since we don't get many vacation days or we would have liked my parents to be able to come to visit when we had a longer break like this one for example but of course it was now to late for something like that. Sigh. So complain, complain I know it's just been really frustrating feeling so uninformed. So none-the-less we made the best of the long weekend and found some pretty fun things to do.
On Thursday we had planned to go to this Aqua World Resort that was about an hour and a half away on the scooter, but when we got there the prices were twice what they had said on the internet and as you can see from the picture below the place was mostly for a hotel stay and the Swimming part wasn't that great to make it worth what the actual cost was. Though it was beautiful here, on the way over we had past many signs for fun outdoor places to go. We were surrounded by mountains in a National Park.

We went exploring a bit and found some beautiful places.

This is the map of the National Park we were in.

We found a hike that went up to a waterfall so we decided to do it. This is a monument on the way up the trail.

A Temple on the way up the trail.

Of course Liji found the animal life on the way up the trail.

One of our hiking guideposts.

Sitting at the top of the Falls.

Lookout over a reservoir on the trail.

At the bottom of the Falls.

We ended up having I'm sure a lot more fun than we would have if we stayed at the Aqua World. Though Public Spas, Bath Houses and Swimming areas are really big here so I do hope to find a good place to go at some point.