Adventure Korea-ing

Yesterday a group of us took a bus out to the North East province of Korea to go 'white water rafting'...or as I like to call it 'floating down the lazy river at the MGM Grand Hotel with a helmet and life jacket'.  We all knew that 'white water rafting' would mean something very different here in Korea.  My observations during rafting more or less confirmed that Korean's aren't the most comfortable around water.  Our guides were irrationally fearful of the current and wouldn't let us swim more than 5 feet off shore.  We also saw a numerous Korean rafters wearing long sleeve chiffon shirts and white pants or button downs and khakis, which just gave me more reason to wonder what these people are thinking when they get dressed in the morning.  Even though the rafting wasn't the exciting experience we were hoping for, it was still a blast and the scenery was absolutely beautiful. 

After our relaxing white water rafting situation...Leah and I decided to go bungee jumping.  You can hear the fear in our voices when you listen to the videos.  I think bungee jumping anywhere would be pretty nerve racking.  Knowing that it's a couple strips of velcro that stand between you and certain death is a rush to say the least, but the kicker for me was not being able to communicate with the person strapping me in...i don't know why a language barrier came to mind as being an issue at this point, but hey.

Some of our pre-jump commentary.  It's not in the video, but a chick going before us jumped straight up into the air...not out like you're supposed to...then decided she didn't want to do it on her way down.  So she arches back trying to grab the ledge...scratches her entire back on the platform...then flopped off. Seriously disturbing bungee jump and it happened right before we went.

Leah's jump!

And then it was my turn!