Mud Fest... I've never been so muddy in my life.

Mudddddyyyy times! We, Dan and I and 5 of our friends here, went to mud fest, Korea's biggest festival, last weekend. There is a huge natural mud beach, that has goopy, thick, slimy, gray, nutritious mud! People get covered in the stuff from head to toe, either just for the fun of it, or because it has anti aging, 'good for your skin' stuff in it. We first went to the mud beach and rolled around in the stuff, had it clumped on top of our heads, squished between our toes, accidentally, or in Dan's case, not so accidentally, rubbed into our eyes. He wanted to prove to me that it isn't so bad having a little mud right on the eyelid, or near the old eye, cause he accidentally rubbed some into my eye. So he took a handful of mud and told me to watch and he rubbed it all over one of his eyelids, then attempted to open his eye and said, "ohhh, I can't see!!" It was pretty hilarious!


Dan and I after we painted ourselves with mud!


The 7 of us, who went on the trip. Left to right - Leah, Linda, Dan Fitz, Michelle, Mike, me and Dan, my honey! These were the outfits we wore when going to the mud beach... when we came off the beach we were literally covered in thick gray mud. It was loaded into my hair, all over my whole body, including my face. We were so muddy that no one was able to get my camera to capture it, sadly.

Mud bath. This mud was hauled to the sand beach from the mud beach for the festival.

The natural mud beach and some things to jump on and crawl through.


Anyways, there was mud fights, chicken fights, mud wrestling, a drill where we had to crawl, run, jump over things etc. with this Korean man yelling at us to go faster. Then once it was all finished we went up to this water truck and got hosed down by freezing cold water with the drill Sargent holding the hose in hand, taking way to much pleasure in hosing us down.

Once that was finished the bus took us to the beach town where we checked into our room and then we went to the sand beach, painted ourselves with mud (see pic directly above and the first one of Dan and I) and hung out, listening to live music that was playing off a big stage on the beach. We also went swimming, strolled the beach, watched the fireworks, listened to a guy with his guitar singing songs on the beach, we sang along too for some of them. It was pretty awesome!