More Sites in Ulsan, South Korea

Since we have been visiting in Ulsan, South Korea for two weeks, we should be running out of things to see and do.  But there are so many nice parks and beaches in the area that we continue to get to see new things every day.  We think that Brian and Alexia are so lucky to be just minutes away from the Sea of Japan and several different beaches.  This day we went to a black sand beach, and got a close up of the tiny pebbles that give the beach its color.

We are spending the afternoon at Jujeon Park, and the boys are busy building a sea wall to measure the high tide that is coming in.

Meanwhile, Denisa and Katrina are playing chicken with the tide.  This game is played by standing in the shallow water for as long as possible as the tides come in . . .

and then running as fast as possible towards the beach when the waves come in to keep our rolled up jeans from getting wet.  Our wet jeans were evidence that many times we weren't fast enough.

We took some pictures of the youngest generation of Engelman kids on the beach,

as well as a picture of a couple of old Engelmans that are visiting South Korea.

Our next stop is Sepyeong Park - better known as the tree house park.  South Korea has invested a lot of money in nice outdoor areas, and it was fun discovering new ones.

This huge tree house had animals carved into its trunk, just like the "tree of life" at Disney.

We played here on the swings and slipper slide on another beautiful day.  We have had great weather most of the two weeks since we've been visiting, with only half a day of rain.

Next door to the treehouse park is a miniature city, with child-size store fronts and roads.  We visited the fire house for a picture of Camden, Cole, and Katrina as firemen.  The children are out of school all this week, and that is one of the reasons that we chose this time to visit.  It's great to have them to play with all day!

On our one rainy day, we headed to the city to do some shopping.  Once the rain clouds rolled out, we headed to one of the tallest apartment buildings in Ulsan to visit our new friend, Cathy.  She and her husband Karl are also expatriats from the United States while he works on a big project for his company.  We parked in the garage under the Exordium tower and took a long elevator up to the 53rd floor where their apartment is.  It is such a long ways up that our ears needed to pop on the elevator.

The views from that height were beautiful, and we could see the river that runs through Ulsan.  We could even see all the way to the ocean and the yard area where Karl and Brian are in charge of building the biggest off-shore drilling rig in the world.

Ulsan is a city of one million people, and at this height we could look down on the apartment buildings all over the city where all those people live.

We also got to visit Winnnie, Cathy's cat.  Winnie is an American cat that seems to like her life in a high-rise apartment building in South Korea.  She travels back to the United States with them several times each year, so she has more international flight time than we do.

We are having a great time visiting South Korea, and we have certainly been blessed with the time we are getting to spend with our relatives living here.  Fall is a beautiful time to be here, as evidenced by this tree at the park.  We have also enjoyed having a computer and wifi at their house that has allowed us to post blogs regularly.  But today we are taking the next step on our Asia Adventure.  We will be flying to Japan, where we will be skipping all over the country living out of our backpacks.  So this might be the last blog that gets published for a while.  We'll finish up blogs on the last days of our time in Korea later, and blog about our time in Japan as soon as we can!