Birthday Celebration at Jeung Island

Because my husband is amazing (and he would be missing my actual birthday due to 6th grade field trip chaperoning) and because we were in the most desperate need of a relaxing getaway, he booked a weekend away for us. Did I mention how amazing he was? The best part was that he planned everything. The hotel, the train tickets, the rental car. Everything. All I did was show up. That is the best kind of trip. We took a half day on Friday and rode the KTX fast train all the way down to the bottom of Korea (God bless this peninsula), rented a car and then drove over to Jeungdo (do means island) where we stayed at a gorgeous, ocean front resort and spent Saturday at the spa. We wrapped ourselves in boiling hot towels drenched in essential oils, laid inside a furnace and sat in hot tubs. It was exhausting....Then we spent the afternoon exploring the salt farms! This island is famous for salt farming and was so interesting. (also there is nothing else to do on the island in winter) There was a museum, but we skipped it. We walked out and saw them shoveling salt to see how they harvested it from the ocean. SO much salt! Then we had the most delicious pork for lunch that we have, hands down, ever had in Korea. It was cooked with the sea salt but was not at all salty. We finished our day with again, the most delicious, sea salt ice cream that had raspberry salt sprinkled flavor on it. I would pay a lot of money to go back for one of those right now. We stayed in Mokpo the second night so we could be at the train station early Sunday morning. It was the best, most relaxing travel weekend (or any weekend) we have had in a long time. Short and sweet. Here are a few photos we snapped and a minibook is already in progress. Photos to come!