What Korea Looks Like

This summer, my family spent a month on the road traveling accross the U.S. and Canada in our pop-up. It became a joke that wherever we went, no matter how much of a drought they had been in, we would bring rain (if we stayed more than one night). Well, Korea has been no exception. After we arrived here, it rained non-stop for about a week and a half!

So yesterday afternoon, when the sun finally decided to shine, we all decided to take advantage of the weather and take a hike on one of the mountains behind our apartment complex. Ruth and Jonathon Willing (the Willings are another American family working here with us) came along with us, too.

Coming from Florida, the mountains here are definitely something different. Korea is 70-80% mountains, and as you can see from the pictures, in between each mountain another city rises up. Most of the tall buildings you see are actually apartment buildings - ours is 17 stories tall. It's funny you can live right in the city, but just 5 minutes away are mountains surrounded by gardens and rice patties.

The view from the top of the mountain (when we finally got there)

Our apartment building (510) overlooking gardens