Before: so excited for the annual Boryeong Mud Festival (MF). Last year in Korea the MF was the highlight of my 2008 year in Korea….it was so much fun but I didn’t have a camera and my friend broke his phone is the ocean…so no evidence. This year my younger sister came from USA to spend her summer vacation in Korea with me and we checked out the MF for the first time.
During: as always, so much fun.
Mud Wrestling–>
to mud flix–>
to just being muddy!–>
The MudFestival was an awesome muddy mess.
There were also many star sightings from performances with famous Korean people ( “she’s a so so so so so famous. Every Korean knows her”) like the famous Misuda women.–>
After: First the rain helped. Secondly, we rinsed off in the ocean. 
Lastly, we found 500 won coins on the ground which in turn paid for our outdoor, spine chilling, beach showers. we all 3 were fighting for a spot in the outdoor shower, trying to pour shampoo into our hands and rub conditioner onto our heads, and scrub a dub rub all the mud off our bodies as fast as possible before our 500 won timed shower turned off. There were plenty of onlookers–not sure if they were giving up props for braving the cold water in the cold weather in the rain in public, laughing at how silly we looked making a spectacle of ourselves, were slightly jealous they weren’t as adventures, or even a little perverted–but whatever, we were shiny and clean afterwards…and we did it for FREE with 3 500 won coins we scouted on the ground. We went into town and Shani had her first Bi Bim Bop and loved it. (minus the rain) couldn’t have been better. 
A Line in the Life of Phoebe* 