Mud Fest

Off to the Philippines tonight! I'm soooo excited to spend the week at the beach! I guess I should blog about mud fest before I leave.
We went with a group from Rhythm and Booze again this year. They got a bus and we stayed at the same minbak as last year. We were a little disappointed to see rain was in the forecast for the whole weekend. Our trip had been cut short last year because of rain, so we didn't want that to happen again. Anyway, we left Bucheon a little before midnight Friday night. It was about a 2 hour bus ride (much better than last year). It was kinda rainy Friday night, but not too bad. I heard it raining really hard while we were sleeping. When we woke up it was still raining, which isn't a big deal when you're playing in the mud, but it was kinda cold. We started off the day with a delicious ramen breakfast, which i dumped in my lap:( At that point I was happy to have the rain to wash off. hahaha After food, we headed out in search of the mud. We walked toward the beach noticing that we weren't seeing any muddy people... When we got there, someone told us they were bringing in the mud the next day. We found the mud wrestling pit, which was filled with more dirty water than mud. There were people carrying buckets of mud back and forth to the slide. There seemed to be a very limited supply of mud. We were of course very disappointed, but we weren't ready to give up. Mud fest has colored mud painting, which we missed out on last year, but we saw a few colorful people walking around, so we asked them where it was. They told us it was about a 15 minute walk away. We started walking, and we stumbled upon the good mud. The really thick and oozy kind. We joined the huge group of people and covered ourselves in it. So much fun! When we couldn't possibly get any muddier, we walked farther down, eventually finding the colored mud painting. The line was really long, and someone told us it was about an hour wait. The slide lines were really long too. The Noise, a band that came with our group was about to play so we went over to watch that. They were really good. After the concert, we went to the ocean to wash off our mud, then headed back to our minbak. We got clean then went out for samgyupsal for dinner. We were all tired after a long, muddy day, so we went back and took a nap. We woke up later and sat outside for a while. The mosquitos were REALLY bad, and somebody broke my tennis racket bug zapper, so we decided to go to the beach. Some of our group decided to go swimming, but it was a little cold for that. After a while we headed back to the minbak where the mosquitos chased us inside.
We woke up sunday to SUNSHINE! yay! We started off the day with corndogs for breakfast, then headed off to play in the mud. We painted each other at the mud painting booth. We put hand prints on each other, which were sunburned into our skin. Then we went to wait for colored mud. It was worth the wait I think. We had a lot of fun sunday. We went on the slides, hung out in jail, and washed off again in the ocean.
Our bus left at 7:00, so we had a good full day to get plenty of sunburn with mudlines. haha At least no mud rash this year!