Busan

This weekend was excellent! I think the best of my time in Korea so far. We went to Busan, which is a city on the south coast of Korea. When we got there, we went and walked around this fish market for a while (snapped some pictures) and then we headed to the beach. I love the beach. I love the sun, the water, watersports (but then, not necessarily the man in the thong riding around on his 'sea-doo').... so maybe I didn't like "everything" ;)

Needless to say, the reason for Busan: Shark Diving! My sister had talked about doing this, and given that it's something I've never done, I thought it might be fun. And it WAS :) We got to the aquarium on sunday morning and then went with an instructor who taught us the basics of scuba diving, and then we suited up in wet suits and headed into the tank.....which was funny, because it was actually a tank at the Busan aquarium....Korean's watching us in there from all directions...in with the sharks! Mwahaha! I was a total ham and was waving back etc. etc....it was funny :)

Anyhow, I'm now sitting here, back in Cheong Ju, washing my clothes and gearing up my bag for my flights again tomorrow.....Africa! I had this moment yesterday where I was trying to remember the details when I last was in Uganda, and I remember that lots of moms handed their babies to me....mostly at church functions. I'm looking forward to that again :) A couple named Sean and Jamie Davis are picking me up at the airport and I'm going to be in Kibaale for the first couple weeks.......for interest sake.....

And lastly, photos from this weekend. The last one was taken with the instructor's underwater camera......from the left: Adam, Heather and Me. And no, I do not have a picture of me WITH a shark, but I can assure you: Those things swam within a couple feet of my face ;)