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Splish & Splash Water Park at Camp Humphreys

10/23/2013

This is one of our FAVORITE summer adventures in Korea!
The kids LOVE going to Splish and Splash Water Park at Camp Humphreys.
It really is a great water park for kids (and adults) of all ages.

This pictures shows the 'little kid' area.
If you look to the far right corner you will see a small swimming pool....that pool is super shallow perfect for toddlers.
In fact the whole area pictured is perfect for toddlers.

This picture shows one of the 2 larger slides (I'm standing on the top of the other one - it is open as you will see in pictures to come.) And do you see the life guard on the right side towards the middle? He is working the 'big' pool. This pool is Olympic size and has 2 diving boards (again you will see in pictures to come), a high dive and a regular diving board.

I'm going to warn you right now, there are some SERIOUSLY CUTE KIDS in this blog post.
If you have an aversion to cuteness, stop looking now.
I'm warning you.

A rare moment when these two actually love each other.
Don't get too excited, I think right after this picture Boy 2 tried to drown Boy 1. ;o)

These boys had a ball hanging out together.

Big sisters are THE BEST!

Freckle Face.

Isn't this one of the most adorable girls you have ever seen?
I love the drip of ice cream on her nose.

There was so much fun to be had on the water slide!

Hamin' it up!
This girl was the 'photo bomber' in a past post.

Even the moms were getting in on the action!

I love how he was looking right at me.....'take the picture so I can move on lady'!

The brother of the photo bomber....the tongue out thing must run in the family! :o)

One of my favorite shots of the day!
What a cutie!

Water parks are exhausting!

Some of the momma's of the bigger kids hanging out in the pool working on our tans.

My friends are hot.

She looks like a super star.

And it looks like she is in a photo shoot for J Crew.

So much fun was had on the high dive!

Look what I can do!

This girl was awesome.
If I had jumped off the high dive I think I would be making the same face!

Doesn't he look graceful?

I am one blessed momma.

Splish & Splash information:

Camp Humphreys is about 1 hour from Yongsan.

Monday - Thursday open 12 noon - 8PM
Friday - Sunday open 11AM - 8PM

No outside food.
You may bring in Gatorade and water ONLY.
They sell booze at their concession stand.
You can order food from the restaurant next door to the water park.

031-619-6412
754-6412

Daily Rates:
US Individual:
E1 - E5: $5
E6 - O3 (includes W1 - W3): $7
W4/O4 - O10 & Civ/Contractors: $8

US Family:
E1 - E5: $10
E6 - O3 (includes W1 - W3): $14
W4/O4 - O10 & Civ/Contractors: $16

Non US ID Card Holder: $20

Non US ID Card Holder: $26

Season Passes:
US Individual:
E1 - E5: $80
E6 - O3 (includes W1 - W3): $100
W4/O4 - O10 & Civ/Contractors: $120

US Family:
E1 - E5: $160
E6 - O3 (includes W1 - W3): $175
W4/O4 - O10 & Civ/Contractors: $200

KN Individual: $150

KN Family: $300

Half-Season Passes (May 18 - July 17 or July 18 - Sept. 9):
US Individual:
E1 - E5: $50
E6 - O3 (includes W1 - W3): $60
W4/O4 - O10 & Civ/Contractors: $70

US Family:
E1 - E5: $90
E6 - O3 (includes W1 - W3): $98
W4/O4 - O10 & Civ/Contractors: $110

Ages 12 months and younger are free of charge. All others will pay rate listed. DoD civilians/contractors who are military retirees will be charged at the rate of their retired military rank. KATUSA's will be considered by their military rank.

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Eurwangni Beach - Or Somewhere Close - Take 2

8/27/2012

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A few weeks ago when Hubby and I took the kids to the beach I KNEW this was something I HAD to share with others. We had such a fabulous time (at the beach...not the pension!) and it is so close I couldn't believe we had never been there before. So in true Trish form I put out a FB alert announcing I was heading to the beach with my kids and if anyone wanted to follow us we would love to have company. We ended up with a 5 car caravan, 6 moms, 18 kids.

I was pretty confident that I could make it to the beach - I drove when we went as a family so I wasn't able to write down "Trish style directions' and it wasn't till the morning of that I had a little bit of anxiety set in. I AM LEADING A CARAVAN OF 5 CARS. For any of you that have ever traveled with me, you know I am not the BEST at directions. I always get there, but sometimes I make a wrong turn and have to do a (cough) 'legal' u-turn.

The drive was going well. I listened to the signs....
I did not fall off a cliff.

I obeyed the speed limit. (At least when we went through 'police enforcement'.)

I avoided danger.

And I exited too early.
In the states most of the time that would not be a big deal, but in Korea, well taking the wrong exit take an extra 15-30 minutes (or more) of your time, and in our case another toll each way which resulted in each car paying an extra 6,000 won. I FELT BAD. REALLY BAD.

We finally made it to the beach, although I figured out we were not at Eurwangni Beach when another friend texted me asking where we were. Oops...we were one beach over. So in reality I have no idea which beach we went to. I FELTED REALLY BAD AGAIN - I sent my friend to the wrong beach, or I rather I went to the wrong beach. Either way, it was wrong. (One thing that made me feel a *tiny* bit better was that my friends that drove on their own took the same WRONG exit as we did...) We never did meet up with our friends that were at the real Eurwangni Beach. :(

Thank goodness for Mojito Man. He saved the day.

He made everything better for a brief moment in time.

All in all I think everyone had a great day, including the teens!

Having a great time..

The boat driver tossed them all in the water...you can see their little heads bobbing..

This takes the phrase O.I.N.K (Only IN Korea) to a whole new level.

Pet pig on the beach.

For a moment I thought I was back in Texas - this tractor just put a boat in the water! :)

And then I looked around and realized there wasn't enough skin showing for this to be Texas! :)

LONG PANTS on the beach!

Look closely...she is wearing HIGH HEELS.

This looks like something out of the movies. Isn't this sweet?!

As a special bonus we got to watch the Korean Police Academy having an organizational day. They were so fun to watch. They would spin in circles for a minute and then someone would blow a whistle - the first guy that made it to the red flag was the winner. Winner of what, I am not sure.

The police academy students LOVED our teens.

Good times, great friendship blooming.

American train....

Friends I knew from when we were here before.

New friends I met though my blog. They now live in my neighborhood!

One of the loves of my life...

And another...

And another.

Side notes:
I did not take pictures while driving, Michelle took them for me.
The mom's only had 1 drink each, and they were weak.
We are responsible.
That's how we rolll.

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Eurwangni Beach

8/4/2012

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Since being in Korea we haven't had time to do lots of fun family things....we had planned to go to the Mud Festival, but that weekend we had the "Koeran Krud" - the sickness each family gets within a month upon arriving to the peninsula. The Korean Krud hit my boys pretty hard and we had to cancel our trip to the Mud Festival. THEN I tried to plan a trip for us to Yeosu, you know, the place where the World Expo (World Fair) is going on. Wouldn't you know it, I started looking too late and almost EVERY train is booked to Yeosu from now until the end of the festival.

In the spirit of NOT GIVING UP, we started looking into other options and when a coworker of Hubby's told him that he and his family went to the beach the previous weekend we decided to look into it. This sounded perfect! It is only about an hour outside the city by Incheon Airport and is a pretty popular area. I can't believe this is the first time we are hearing about it! We booked a pension, packed a bag and headed West to Eurwangni Beach Saturday morning.

After getting out of the car this is the first thing we saw! This MUST be a good sign!

I couldn't believe how meticulous this guy was in making our Mojito. In the end he wasn't happy with the placement of the mint so he took the lid off, used some sort of cocktail tweasers and moved the mint leaves back into place put the lid back on and smiled and handed it to me.

5,000 won and delicious to boot!

This is what we saw after mojito man:
Tent city...I guess you can camp on the beach here...

After tent city we came upon these little platforms with umbrellas. We knew about these from the year we went to the Mud Festival. They are super cool, but kind of expensive to rent. (35,000 won)

However we are not quite as savvy as the Koreans, they bring their grills and really have a feast on the beach...we only had fruit and sandwiches...I was really hoping someone would invite us over for Korean BBQ! :o)

After setting up camp we headed down to the beach and this is what we saw, and it only got busier. There were bodies EVERYWHERE. The good news is it was REALLY easy to spot our kids!

Tents and umbrellas lined the beach.

After applying the proper amount of sunscreen, we all headed down to the beach.

My handsome little bug. Check out the people in the background. The kids were like superstars.

She really is a good big sister.

I love this man.

Just hangingout in the Yellow Sea having a ball.

My favorite sound on earth...I can hear her giggling just from looking at this picture.

Do you see what I see? Boy 3 getting thrown from his tube!

KOREAN BEACH ATTIRE: I felt totally out of place. I only saw one other lady in a bikini and she was also a foreigner.

If I were a betting woman, I would bet that Koreans don't have as many skin cancer issues as us Americans do. I've never seen so many long sleeves, floppy hats, sweaters, socks, shoes and umbrellas on a beach in my entire life. This helps me understand why Koreans have such beautiful skin.

This guy is wearing army sleeves. You can buy them everywhere, even while riding the subway.

Long sleeves and 2 hats.

This is just sweet. Look at how delicate her umbrella is.

Look at the couple above Boy 3's head. That girl is wearing a SWEATER. Did I mention it was in the high 90's?

If you notice, this couple is wearing shoes. The lady had on leather sandals and the guy had on socks and sneakers.

This lady looked at me like I had three heads. I'm assuming it is because I was wearing a bikini. I think she was worried about my skin - yeah, we will go with that. :)

Pension House: A penson house is a hotel of types - is a traditional room that is mostly preferred by Koreans. It has floor heating to keep the floor warm during the winter season and rooms with no bed -blankets are placed on the floor for sleeping. The pillows tend to be hard and made of sand - pebbles - I'm really not sure what their pillows are made of. With all this being said, we THOUGHT we knew what we were in for. I mean we have stayed in a pension in Korea before.

We rented a 2 bedroom pension with 2 bathrooms. We were all hot and nasty from being in the water so we were going to take showers and head out to dinner. We have 2 bathrooms so 2 people can take showers at the same time - right? WRONG....in the 2nd bathroom something was missing - the shower head!!! The plumbing for a shower was there, but the shower head and faucet to turn the shower on were NO WHERE TO BE SEEN. I can't even imagine what could have happened to them. Down to one shower - 6 people taking turns. We stuck Boy 3 in the sink and showered him here:

I wish I had taken more pictures but I was a little freaked out by my surroundings and it was DANG hot inside the pension. There was ONE air conditioner in the main room of the pension and one fan - we moved the fan into the main room and shut the doors to the bedrooms in HOPES that the main room would cool down while we went out to eat.

Check out this bedroom: The wallpaper was attached with tape - well, kind of. True story. It was lovely. Oh, check out those floors. They felt like plastic and you could lift it up.

At this point the children are freaked out. Especially Boy 1. I continued to be positive and kept telling them it was not so bad. I said "We are going to come back and play games - it will be an adventure! Something we will look back on and laugh. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE FUN DANG IT!"

Then they showed me the towel I had to dry off with after my shower. Again, I laughed and said. "This is awesome! A totally Korean experience. This is a great!" (They still were not convienced.)

Our beds. Totally what I expected. All a part of the fun! :o)

Me - "The beds are all made! We aren't even going to use the bedrooms. We are going to have a big sleepover! This is going to be so much fun! We are going to play games and hang out together all night!"

Boy 1 growls.

Hubby turns the TV on to watch the Olympics while we are getting ready to go out to dinner when I hear: "There is no sound. This remote is not turning the sound up even though it shows it is. What the blank, blank, blank is wrong with this blanking thing." A few minutes later I hear "the blanking button is broken on this blanking TV. Are you kidding me? How much did we blanking pay for this blaking place?"

I couldn't help but laugh and say "We are going to have fun!" with the sweetest southern voice I can muster as I'm drying off with my little hand towel.

Did you notice the wall paper? One wall is orange the other is pink with something on it? The pink patterned wall paper only goes 1/2 way up the wall, and then it is a different wall paper. It was awesome.

Finally we headed out to dinner. Korean Chicken and Beer. At least we know everyone likes Korean chicken.

Boy 3 learning a life lesson - how to open a bottle.

Can't you tell by the look on my face..."We are having a great time!"

After Hubby licks my face everything turns to pot. The kids start drinking from watering cans,

crabs and shovels. Chicken is thrown.

Boy 1 just wants to go home and disown us all.

After dinner we have another fun bathroom experience. The Korean coed bathroom.

Finally we get back ot the pension where we play Charades. It was totally fun - there was lots of laughing and cutting up. Until one word was "MOM" and it was acted out by by one of my children. (I won't mention which child but it is possible he is pictured below.) There was lots of silent yelling and finger pointing. It took all of a millisecond for the rest of the audience to guess "MOM"! Humm, I think I need to do some soul searching. (And I didn't think I was a yeller...) It was still fun even after I realized my kids think I'm the evil yelling woman. :)

As we were settling down for the night, the noise level in the pension was on the rise. Hubby suggested that we just pack up and head home. I was insistent that we stay - reminding him that we were having fun and that I was looking forward to hitting the beach again tomorrow. I told him it wasn't that bad...we were fine. Plus, when I am at home I always feel like I need to be working, when I am in a hotel I can at relax - even if the hotel is falling apart around us. He agreed and we lay on the floor to go to sleep. As I drifted off to go to sleep Boy 1 started freaking out doing a crazy ass man dance and said a big spider was crawling on him, he said it crawled on his arms and his face and there was NO WAY he could sleep with that thing on the loose. I growled at him and told him to suck it up - we are having fun (dang it!)! He tried, but kept freaking out. Hubby and I were facing each other when Hubby quietly said to me "I think we should pack up and go home. Call it for what it is and go home and sleep in our own bed." I didn't say anything for a little while...then I checked the time. Yes, we can make it back to Yongsan before curfew.

The Pension at Eurwangni Beach beat us down. We packed up and headed home, only to get home and find out our air conditioner was broken.

We are still having fun. Just ask our kids. :o)

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Hi, I'm Trish, the writer, creator and photographer of this blog. I started this blog for 2 reasons, 1 - When I found out we were moving to Korea back in 2008 I was a little freaked out and started scouring the internet for information on Korea. At that time there wasn't much out there so I am doing my part in helping families across the world not be so freaked out when it comes time to move to Korea. The 2nd reason I started this blog was to help stay connected to family members back in the states. Today it is so much more that.
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