Jinhae 0422 thru 0424

The team spent Wednesday and Thursday in the port city of Jinhae, also a station for the Korean Navy as well as the U.S. Navy. We toured a few of the city's museums and a water treatment facility that is also doing research on fish. They had several small aquariums in their facility, some of which held rare Korean species of sea creatures.



After nearly three weeks of living according to a break-neck schedule with no downtime and adjusting to sitting and sleeping on the floor frequently and recovering from a$$-kicking food poisoning, the girls were ready for some spa massage therapy. Ok, so we didn't have the kind of spa day we were expecting - with the gracious assistance of the Jinhae Rotarians we were able to coordinate a Chinese massage therapy session ... elbows jammed into all the sore spots and people walking all over you and all that jazz. YIKES!

While the girls were "relaxing," Ed was trying new things, root juice off the back of some guy's truck (sounds pretty redneck, don't it?):



On our last night in Jinhae we were treated to a specially arranged Miguk dinner on the U.S. Navy base. Most everyone had steak and ate their meals with gusto.

We were very sad that we only had a short time in Jinhae. Our homestays were great and our hosts were wonderful.

Though we would have appreciated a longer visit with our new friends, on Friday it was time to move on to our next club in Miryang ...

Schedule:
APRIL 22
Transfer, meet & greet
Jinhae Dream Park tour
Lunch (at restaurant called Meat Valley, spaghetti)
Marine park and maritime museum tour
Dinner (welcome)
APRIL 23
Response cold water inland tour
Lunch
Tapsan, museums, jangboksan tour (tea time)
Dinner (farewell, at U.S. Navy base)
APRIL 24
Transfer to Miryang