Camping by North Korea

Conner

Some shots of the kids looking cute (this was before they got FILTHY while camping for three days!) :)

Our neighboring camp site.

Daddy and Bryce oh so cute.

And a little silly.

The boys played a lot of soccer. It rained/drizzled for a lot of the weekend, but it never bothered the boys. They even played soccer with the Korean camp neighbors. If one of the boys couldn't get a brother to play soccer with them they just went up to the Koreans and asked if they wanted to play. It was really cute. The Koreans didn't speak English and we know NO Korean.

Cody with Conner

This was the side of our campsite and where the boys hiked into the woods to find wood

This moth was found by the bathrooms. It was the size of my HAND!!

The man made water fall and stream the boys had fun playing in. The boots were brought to keep feet dry. This only works if they do not step in water that goes over the top of the boot. Yeah they weren't so good at that one.

Our awesome campsite!

This is us setting up camp, a little out of order.

These were the other camp sites. It looks like they are all newly planted. That and a little small. Our site was awesome!! We had a field with woods behind us with bathrooms to one side and a field kitchen to the other. Just perfect!!
The boys at the visitors center at Mt Sorak National Park.

Mt Sorak National Park

This is Bryce (top) and Cody (bottom).

We hiked through this to get to the water fall. It was a really great path, partially paved but partly rock/metal stairs.

This picture was taken b/c as you can see Conner is pulling UP his pants. He decided mid hike to take a leak! Right there on the path! Ok, he peed OFF the path, but just dropped his drawers, right there. I figure I'll take all of the embarrassing pictures of them peeing in all the embarrassing places they have peed and it will a little bit of pay back when I show it to them when they're older. Yeah not a nice mommy thing to do, but oh well. Remember too, they rarely ask to pee in these weird places, just do it and leave me to deal with it!

This is the chipmunk that almost came up and attacked me. Or at least I was a little afraid that's what he was going to do. Not really sure what I was so afraid of, but it was a little weird just having this thing come up to me and then see about 10 other chipmunks scurrying all over the place. Ok, I'm a little weird.

The boys sunning themselves by the water fall.

Done sunning, time to PLAY!!

Time to get WET!!!!


You really have to love the pictures of the twins in underwear! :) I happen to LOVE their little tushes in their little wighty tighties. This whole "wear just your underwear" thing was a little more socially acceptable in Europe, but oh well.

Conner walked up to Doug while he was standing like this and mimicked his stance. It was so cute I had to get a photo.

It was a two-a-day! After lunch and a short nap we headed back to the park to go on hike number two.
We took this gondola up to the top of the mountain.

Going up...

and up...

Why would we take the stairs when we could ROCK CLIMB???!!! This made sense to me, but not so much Doug. He did catch on quickly and by the end of the hike we were skipping stairs in loo of rock climbing. I love our family!!

Random Korean Rock Piles (RKRP) These are everywhere!! Like Doug mentioned he thinks they are like Catholics lighting candles, same kind of spiritual thing. Not sure.

Down at the bottom in front of the "magic" water fall.

Doug really wanted to go see this big statue. More so he could say he had done it. You could see this thing from the gondola it was so huge!! And then they had Buddhist music playing while up on the mountain.

The twins in front of the statue.

This place was BEAUTIFUL!! I could have sat here all day. The plan was to come back the next day and hang out and hike and have a picnic. Well as it turned out it POURED rain the next day and we packed up and headed home. But it was nice while it lasted! We had a great trip and will be back.