Korea--Day 8 (Saturday, June 30)

Full day of touring Busan planned.  We boarded the bus at 8:30 a.m.

We were delayed a good 20 minutes because someone puked and had to be evacuated. Some of the young adults were pretty hung over this morning.  Busan seems to be a big party town. Sometimes group travel is a pain, because you're always waiting for someone to go to the bathroom or go back and get what they forgot, etc. But there are lots of benefits to group travel that outweigh the inconveniences.

First stop was an air cruise on a cable car.  For some reason, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un were shaking hands in the station where you board the car.

 This would have been a beautiful experience if it wasn't raining the whole time.

We were delayed at the top for about an hour because of thunder and lightning. Sarah sketched during the delay.

The next stop was Jagalchi Fish Market, an absolutely horrifying place of torture of needless cruelty.  I hated every second of it.  It was sad to see fish crammed into little tanks and piles of dead sea creatures. The place reeked. It was the lowest point of the trip so far for me.

I tried to focus on this cute puppy to erase the images of the fish market.

Noah found his hotel.

The next stop was two hours of shopping at the international market. It was still raining, and the market was outside, so it was miserable. Mike and I found a hotel and went in there and used the business center and free massage chairs.That was the best part of the day, although there were really no highlights to this day, only lowlights.

We were supposed to tour a temple, but there was dangerous flooding at it, so we finally came back to the hotel. Sarah had gone back earlier in a taxi with Grace and her family.  So glad to get out of our wet clothes and shoes. We haven't left since. The kids went out for pizza and brought us some. We're just watching the rain and I'm catching up the blog.