Jejudo Trip (Day 4)

Finally, here it is. Sorry for the long delay, but it adds in the excitement and anticipation, right?

My ankle was very swollen this morning, so I am glad there’s not much sightseeing left for today. Still eating salad for breakfast; I feel that it is a sin not to, since it is offered. I do, however, chase it down with the wonderful Belgian waffle topped with syrup and whipped topping. After our breakfast, we walked around the hotel to check out the locations they had filmed Korean movies. Our hotel had a wonderful view of the beautiful blue ocean and the nearby hotels. We went back to the room, got our luggage and checked out. We drove next door to the Lotte Hotel for James to walk around like a tourist with the camera dangling from his neck so that he could take even more photos of filming locations. The kids and I waited in the car for two reasons: #1 my ankle was swollen and I was having trouble walking, and #2 we thought that James wanted to “ooh” and “aah” by himself. Oh wait, there’s another reason: #3 I really cared less about seeing it. When James finally returned to the car 30 minutes later with a smile on his face, we left the hotel, programming the GPS for the airport.

View of our hotel from the back.

As were we driving along, we talked about a few things we wanted to get and decided to stop at a souvenir shop James saw on a commercial that played on our GPS when it was starting up. We found the store and bought a few more boxes of the yummy chocolate and some tea. We decided since the kids did so well with eating Korean food we would reward them with eating at the McDonald’s near the airport. It happened to be a 24-hour McDonald’s that also had delivery service. We ate french fries and cheeseburgers until we were full.

Here's the McDonald's with their "delivery vehicles" in the front.

We got to the airport with a little too much time to kill. We returned to parking pole #2 to turn in the rental car and walked toward the terminal. As we approached the crosswalk, I saw something that made me think, “only in Korea!” There was a young lady dressed in red and black with high heels and a very cute hat. Her job was to walk into the road to stop traffic for the people trying to cross the road. We checked our luggage and walked around the airport to find the play area for the kids. They played while James yelled at the Korean kids (in Korean) that they should not be playing so rough and jumping with Ashley nearby. After hanging out there for awhile, we went through security and I had another “only in Korea” thought. I guess the island sells lot of fish products, so they sell fresh fish in the airport that you can take with you on the plane. I was hoping and praying no one near us on the plane thought it necessary to take back fresh fish. As we waited to board our plane, the kids made some new friends by sharing Teddy Grahams and letting them practice their English. It felt good to be back in Seoul, especially since we had nice weather and the traffic gods were good to us on the drive back home.

Here's the lady braving the oncoming traffic.