okay... i'm back.. bored as heck at work today... they wanted me to play volleyball AGAIN today... (we play every wednesday)... but they didn't tell me beforehand and I'm not playing in my dress shoes against a bunch of 4 foot men... so.. here's the Beomosa Temple and hike post... sorry for the pictures but I shot a lot of raw shots this day and my computer at school won't recognize those files... soooo ... you're getting the leftovers.... ALSO.. as cool as it is to travel in foreign countries... it's pretty hard to learn anything from the historic sites when you can't read or understand their friggin language.... so we basically had to learn by using our eyes.. and i don't have any cool info about the temple to pass along... other than it's the most famous one in busan.. and the public is only allowed on weekends... hopefully i'll be able to brush up my korean well enough to understand the basics soon enough... here's a pic of one of the buildings... with some monks walking in the background if you enlarge 
it... i'm not too sure they're called pagodas anymore... "mmmaybe" a pagoda... as they say here.... all the time..."mmmaybe"... the hike took about an hour and a half up.. we stopped for lunch.. where they were serving noodles and water.. or makelli and soju.. which are both boozes of sorts... no thanks.. 
i could barely move for the past two days... a couple of very nice men came over to laura and i and gave us these rice stuffed things to eat... i think they felt bad for the foreigners eating ramen noodles.. so bad that they came back over with an egg and salt for each of us... i was kungfused... i thought the eag was raw and the soup was to cook it... about 10 mins later we realized they were hard-boiled and we were chumps... it was delicious.. masheeta they say here... here's a pic of the koreans that fed us a better lunch than what we had :)... below is another pic of Ro-ra looking out into the wilderness on our hike... 
it's really cool that we can basically hike anytime we want.. however... we're not hiking alone.. there were thousands of koreans at beomosa this day... i'm actually probably under-exaggerating... this is a place where you have to learn to be peaceful on the inside... because you're sure as heck not getting a moment alone with nature here !!!
here's a pic of a random part of the hike where there was about the average amount of koreans... it's definitely not a peaceful hike... there's always someone on your tail and you can't go at your own pace... the koreans are always in a rush to be somewhere other than where they are... which must be stressfull and lead to most of their demises... demises?? .... whatever... if it wasn't for stress.. these people would live forever... they eat veggies.. rice and seafood and live in a mountain range.. every street is on a hill... and are consistently getting exercise.... and every once in awhile they get food poisoning.. which helps take off about 10 pounds!!... horrible... here's a shot at the summit... (not much of a hike really)... 
and here's the view we got from the top of the mountain here in Busan... the hike was worth the view... I took three shots and stitched them together in photoshop... yeah.. i'm a huge photo geek... so what... this one is worth clicking on and viewing the large version.... okay.. now have a good weekend... oh wait .. it isnt' friday afternoon there yet?? hahaha... i'm living in the future suckers!!!... k.. bye for now :)