Thursday, July 23, 2009

The 12th Boryeong Mud Festival aka Mudfest 2009

Yes, there is really such a thing. It's a festival hosted by the Koreans on Daechon Beach on the West Coast of Korea. It was held from July 11th to the 19th and we went on the last weekend. As you can tell, this post is a little out of order. Anyhow, a monsoon was threatening and we weren't even sure we were going to attending. We heard several accounts from people who were there the first weekend that the festivities tend to degrade into a rowdy Spring Break type atmosphere in the afternoon. But there were some family friendly areas so we decided to venture to the coast when we woke up and it wasn't pouring outside. (BTW, The picture on the blog are not ours. We didn't bring our digital camera anywhere near the beach. They were actually from my sister's college friend who is stationed here as well. She's the one wearing the pink shirt) After parking the car for free and using the free tourist changing areas, we greatly anticipated David's reaction to the mud. There were various stations setup - a mud slide area, a colored mud booth where you could paint yourself, a mud pit that you could just walk though, and it just continues. The mud was a clay-like, liquidity mud. If you've ever worked w/pottery, it's a very similar feeling to when you are trying to clean up. Anyhow, I dipped my into a mud put and let David touch it. He wanted nothing to do with it. He made the funniest face of disgust and tried to wipe the mud off. We headed down to the beach where the water was cold, it was very windy and the surf was quite choppy. He didn't want to play in the water either. We tried the mud again at various locations and each time the reaction was similar. My girlfriend's daughter who is 23 months apparently felt the same way. Since David wasn't having too much fun, we really couldn't as well. We cleaned up the best we could and headed back. So we can say we went to the mud festival and we did get some free mud soap out of the deal. David did enjoy picking up the pine cones in the parking lot, throwing them and then running to pick them up though.

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