Sorak-San trip Labor day 2006

This labor day, just like other ones we go as a group of teachers to a place around Korea to spend our four days together. This year we went to the East side of Korea and spent the weekend at a ski resort. Usually during the winter it is a snow ski place. During the summer, they have a water park at the complex that has slides and golf, and actually now that I remember it that was the very funniest thing about this trip. There was of course no snow and but does that stop the Korean from playing golf? Not a chance. We stayed on the 8th floor of the hotel (out of 20) and from our window we could watch them playing golf on a real course all the way down the regular ski slopes. We never played, but we joked about putting just a tad too hard and watching the ball roll all the way down the mountain. Crazy stuff. The water park was cool but here is the kicker. Which by the way is another thing that I am VERY grateful to my parents for. We went in to this place and we HAD to wear a ski cap. I figured that we would have to so I brought mine. Tad Mark and Jake all had to buy one there for 3,000 won. (3 bucks) Tad bought a hot neon pink one. Was stared at all day. They had a wave/current pool, really cool place but to get into the current you had to have a life jacket. I was saying..."Are you kidding me?" I have take years of swim classes, even taught them. I even subbed as a lifeguard in California for a summer. But in Korea, the main population can not swim and so I think it is more along the lines of, if we were to be in there without life jackets on, I think the Koreans would be doing it too or at least wanting to do it and then everyone would start to drown and guess who would be to blame...Little ol' me. But I only have a couple of pictures from both the resort and the trip to the beach. I'll post some more once other people send them to me.