All the colors of the wind...

"Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is my second."

-Mattie Stepanek

    Last weekend, we took a weekend trip to the Southern coast of Korea to visit the island of Geoje.  Our weekend started with an overnight bus arriving at a Korean spa at 3:00AM to sleep on the floor of a communal room next to a human fog horn.  Needless to say our group was not bright eyed and bushy tailed the next morning. But we pushed on and went on a morning walking tour of the city of Tongyeong.  We started out stopping by some replicas of turtle ships.  These are thought to be the first armored ships and Korea is very proud of these ships.

After checking out the ships we checked out the mural village.

I wish you could zoom in on my face because I have the most beautiful expression.

At the top of the hill was an adorable Anne of Green Gables cafe.

The Korean Tourism Board markets Tongyeong as the Napoli of Korea, I think that is a bit of a stretch but it was a nice town.

After  our nice morning stroll we were onto the next stop of our weekend, the luge!!!!

This involved taking a ski lift up a mountain and driving a little go-kart down.

It was basically like playing a live action version of Mario Kart! It was so much fun and I wish I could have gone down another 20 times.

We then drove to Geoje Island and hiked to a beautiful lookout point!

There is something so magical about islands jutting out of the sea.

Its Korea, so of course there were giant picture frames on top of the mountain.

The whole point of the weekend was to attend the Holi Hai festival.  Holi is a festival from India celebrating spring.  

Holi involves packets of colored powder that you throw at each other and it is amazing fun.

After 2 hours of throwing powerdered paint this is what you look like.

This pictures are out of order but Saturday night involved gold face paint and fireworks on the beach, along with me being an old lady and going to bed at 10:00.

The festival was so much fun and such a great start to warmer weather and the start of spring!