Mud fest!

WELCOME TO MUD FEST! This is an amazing festival that Korea throws every year. Apparently Mud Fest started as a beauty festival in the early 1990's because the mud has beautifying properties and its good for your skin. Somehow it turned into a pretty crazy party! These are pictures of the "mud zone" it wad full of blow up bouncy houses, slides, wrestling pools, mud pools, and obstacle courses.

 

Here are the crazy slides.

 

Lol, Oh Korea, you had to rise your feet off before entering the mud pool. :)

Here is the obstacle course, you can see a few people in action.

This is the line waiting for the course. Look at all the people covered in mud!

The beginning of the obstacle course. This is where I ripped my dress when I went through it. Don't worry I was wearing my swimsuit. But as soon as I went through that little hole both straps came tearing right off. I still did kinda good in the race... I wasn't last! :p

Here's more of the fest. What a muddy good time!

People trying to shower off the mud. Why didn't they just jump in the beautiful, warm ocean?

Here Danielle and I are before the mud!

This one is a bit fuzzy but it shows the mud pretty well.

Here's the group we were hanging out with! Kayla and I were still pretty muddy but Danielle and Rafael jumped into a mud pool and amazingly it cleaned them off a little.  

Danielle and I!

A muddy selfie! :p

By the Mud plaza rock.

Another selfie.

Last selfie. I'm so crazy happy that I made it to mud fest! What a great weekend! After we went to the mudzone we headed down to the ocean to rise off. The water felt wonderful, like warm bath water and the waves were huge. It made me think of the wave pools at Noahs Arc except this shit was real! Lol.

After cleaning off we were walking back to our Pension and we came to a giant beach dance party! I felt like I was on set for a Rihanna video. There were about 300 people dancing to a big DJ while we were being sprayed with water from some hoses. It was for real awesome. You all know how much I enjoy dancing and whipping my hair back and forth.

 

Here Danielle and I are enjoying our night. We drank quite a bit which besides the mud is the point of mud fest. This was our awesome hangout spot on the roof. Here I had some good banter, drinking fun and an inappropriate game of "Never Have I Ever". I made some new friends and it was one of their birthdays! We celebrated that one quite well. I also met a man from Wisconsin that was defiantly drinking "wisconsibly".

Here are my really shitty pictures of the fireworks. Believe me they really do not do them any kind of justice. Korea always does it big! The fireworks were synchronized to music. One of the songs was old school Mariah. Oh god. I was in heaven.

 

This is where we stayed. This is called a Pension. It wasn't the greatest accommodations I've ever had. This isn't the exact room and its through a screen window because the cranky Korean owner wouldn't let me go back in after 11... which was check out time so I guess I understand. A pension is just a  room. No bed. You sleep on the floor. Its also run like a hostel so you share a room with people you came with or random people. Since Danielle and I didn't know any one we stayed with random people. These people were not the greatest, in fact the kinda sucked. When I finally got back to the pension in the morning to sleep, yes I said morning because I came home when the sun was rising. I couldn't find a pillow, mean while one of the douchebags had 2, one for his head and one in between his legs. Oh believe me, I woke him up by yelling "IM GONNA GET IRATE! THIS DOUCHEBAG HAS 2 PILLOWS (he wakes up) GIVE ME A PILLOW, Thank you." Then I promptly slept for a total of 2 hours. Woot Woot. Yay, mud fest.

 

 

Jagalchi Fish Market

Today we took a nice little trip to see the Jagalchi Fish market which is the biggest fish market in Korea!

Here I am at the fish market!

Here are lots of pictures of seafood!

These are some giant sized crabs!

This lady was fishing one out to try to sell it to us!

An octopus trying to escape!

Squids

Stone fish

While we were at the market we saw lots of eels. The skin the eels alive and let them squirm around in a bowl until someone wants to eat it and then they grill it up.

This machine was making rice cakes. It would smash the rice into a cake shape and then shoot it out into the basket. This is an action shot of it being shot out.

 

Here is the area where you look at the seafood, pick some up and then they cook it up for you!

We chose this place and picked out a bunch of different stuff. We picked out a fish, an octopus, and eel, and some different sea shell looking things.

Here he is removing the scales.

Here is our yummy food!

He's gutting our fish

Cleaning it and then we were taken upstairs to eat!

Here is our table. I went with Lindsey and Tony and we were all excited to eat our food!

I picked out the meat from this little seashell. I was a little nervous to eat it but it was super yummy!

Here's our eel

Our cooked up octopus

Our sea shells, filled with meaty goodness

This was not as delish. We ate the meat on the right but the stuff on the left was so bad that Lindsey spit it out.

Our fish all cooked up. It was so delish and fresh! I mean 10 minutes before it was swimming in the tank. Lindsey ate its eyes... I ate its cheeks. :p

Our demolished fish. Oh so yummy. What a good adventure!