Monday, September 24, 2007
A Day at the Beach
Note from Sammy’s Mom:
Before summer was gone, we decided to go to the beach.
When I was a kid, my parents took me to the east coast every summer vacation. I still remember these vacations vividly. As I watched Sammy play in the sand and the water, I recalled these past outings with my family.
To get the most out of this trip, we needed to rent a car. It’s not cheap in Korea, but it is cheaper than owning a car. A car for two days was around $100 with 40% off, and the gas was $75 to fill up this car (over $6.50/gallon in Korea). I don’t know how people can afford to have a car in Korea.
Anyway, we went to west coast on Saturday morning (around 7:00 AM to beat traffic). There is a big difference between west and east coasts. West coast beaches are very shallow, whereas east coast beaches are very deep with steep drop-offs right off the beach. It took us around 3 hours to get Anmyon Island because of bad traffic (regular traffic in Seoul). Before noon, we got Ggotgi Beach.
Right away I could see how much Sammy loves the water. He didn’t look back us. He just ran into water. Dan had to tackle him and get him into his bathing suit.
It was hot day, but the water wasn’t cold enough to cool us down. We spent around 4 hours at the beach, and then we decided to move out of the sun.
We went to Duksan Water Park. This is a spa/water park. The focus is on the natural spring water, but the slides and lazy river give something for the kids to do. It took us a hour from beach. It was very fun and a nice place to go for hot summer.
We finally got home a little after 1:00 AM. It was a long day, but we all had a great time.
