Suwon

This was the view outside Burger King Saturday!  It is one of the gates to the fortress in Suwon.

We have a nice new group of missionaries this week.  Elder A is giving a little training on their finances.

One of our favorite Korean elders came by to say hello!

 The office elders were playing a game of soccer / volleyball.  No hands!

The chicken restaurant was running low on daikon I guess!  They go through tons of it!

The trash really piled up this week due to the holidays!

On Saturday we took a little trip to Suwon.  These martial arts guys posed with some kids after their performance.

It was a pretty fun performance.

Afterwards, these kids needed to ask some questions in English for their school project.  They said we saved their project!

Suwon is the location of the Hwaseong Fortress which was a military training place built in the 1700s.  We thought it was going to be all a museum or historical place, but they have built a city within the walls.

On the way to the wall, we got distracted in the market.  They're selling off their summer clothes.  This man had to go find the "Big Size" for us.

There are four of these gates in the wall.

We saw several families taking the walk.  Some of the kids wanted to say "Hello!"

There were nice parks all along the wall.  This place has some exercise equipment in case the hiking isn't enough for you.

There is a tethered balloon ride.

The river comes through at this gate.

Inside the roof.

There are several places for cross bows and other defenses.  This one is at one of the gates.

This large area is for martial arts training.

This is inside the wall.  It had a nice walking path.  We didn't make it all the way around because we wanted to get back for the next show.

Look at that beautiful sky!  We didn't think about getting sunburned in October, but...it happens!

This guy was a fun acrobat to watch.  There was another show going on nearby that was different people singing. (Korean Idol?)  He had to compete with their music!

He walked across several times.  Jumping on one foot, running, dropping down and up.  Lots of fun.

This other festival was going on too.  Interesting food booths!  So, we ate at Burger King.

Some cute little ladies moved so we could sit together on the bus back to the subway.

When we got back to Seoul, we got on the bus back to our apartment and apparently some kind of protest was happening.  It took about an hour to go two miles!  Most had Korean and American flags going down the middle of the road.  We could have walked it faster.

I met a new sister at church today.  She has recently moved to Seoul to work at the US Embassy.  One of her previous assignments was in Kazakhstan!  She moved to Astana after we had left.  We've heard through the grapevine that President Russell M Nelson was going to be in Astana today.  Can't wait to hear about that!