This was the minus 16 temperature ever lowest experienced in my lifetime!
Exactly 20 years ago in Jan 1998, Muju Ski resort was the first official place where we took up our skiing lessons. At that time, we struggled coming down the one and only green slope of over 3km for the 2 days after the lessons.
Fast forward, on 22/1/18, we decided to re-visit this same place. After all, it was the source of our inspiration to ski for the next many years to come.
Any MAJOR Changes since then? :)
1. No more old airport at KIMPO but INCHEON! Took intercity bus from Seoul to Muju city instead of the ski -direct bus. And then the free shuttle from Muju city to the mountain!
2. Skiied the same old slope which we struggled back then. Only now to find it a piece of cake! LOL! So John tried his snowboarding this time!
3. Skiied almost all the rest of the runs except one which is "Black expert". Came to the highest peak this time! Only to experience the strong winds at the top and the first ever -freezing minus 16 degrees. My pink scarf couldn't hold the biting cold:(
No choice - had to invest in a $20 plus versatile mask for the next 2 days ski!
4 Watched the Live AO tennis on 26/1/18 Fri where Federal beat the first ever Korean tennis player Hyung (21) who made it to the Semi-finals in many many years! Old Fed who turned 36 still proved to be an outlier of the outliest. Hyung retired in 3rd set owing to horrible blisters on his foot:(
Enjoyed the Korean Soju (Less than $6.50 per bottle for continuous 2 evenings until went a little tipsy!LOL)
5 Witnessed the clean and neat return of trays at the Korean foodcourt. Decided to observe and took the photos to send in Reach in Spore for followup as ours is much to be desired:( Sad to say....
6. Lasting red ski suit worn for more than 18 years!
When I first started to learn to ski, the yellow suit was rented. Thereafter a year later to our next ski in Whistler, bought this red ski suit and the separate woollen tops and bottoms from Mountain Equipment. Think it cost about $300 for the 4 piece suit - outer and inner. Well, worn for a long long time...worth it!
Photos of before and after 20 years...LOL
1998 vs 2018!
Same spot on Green ski slope : 2018 John vs 1998 Mui
1998 (plane to Seoul) and 2018 (Bus back to Incheon from Muju)
7 More glorious food since..Yum Yum
Fish cakes....beef...chicken ..hot dogs...seafood...bread..more side dishes & ......soju and beer!
Reflection and Testimonies
1. An answered prayer to my stuck zipper on my red ski jacket on Friday!
On friday morning, my outer red ski top's zipper was caught by the fabric. I struggled to reset it and John tried to undo but was unsuccessful. Upon the return from the restroom and seeing the thing still stuck, I decided to pray aloud " OH please Lord, help me. Undo this or else I would not be able to go out to ski!" well, guess what happens next? All I did was to give it another tug and shot and Whee! Zipper came off smoothly! PTL and Amen and Thank The Lord for the job!
2. God watches over us with love all the time ! Got back to Incheon airport on time! From Muju-Daejeon-Incheon
We left the mountain top as early as 8am on the last day. This time we did not pre book any taxis or buses back to Incheon Airport (Thinking that after taking the city bus from Muju to the next bigger city in Daejeon ( about 1.5hours) would allow us to catch the next airport bus from Daejeon to Incheon at 9:30am schedule) To our shock, all the airport buses were full and the next available was at 11:20am! This sector journey requires about 2.5 hours.
Our flight was at 4:20pm. We had wanted to give ourselves more time in case of jams etc..Wow but the 11;20am bus was kind of tight. Nevertheless, thanks to the road condition, we still managed to arrive quite nicely for the check in! PTL!
[Lesson learnt: Major coach sectors ought to be pre-booked in advance in future!]
Final reflections
Had borrowed this book "Living in the Miraculous" by Katherine Ruonala" from the Queenstown National Library for this trip.
Guess the above testimonies summarized the loving God and His loving answers to my call for help! God is good all the time and all the time He is good.
This year Grammy 2018, Hillsong won the first award in the christian song section for their song " What a Beautiful Name it is" .
And there is a story behind this song...
https://hillsong.com/collected/blog/2016/10/what-a-beautiful-name-song-story/#.WnLA366WYrg
And yes, what a beautiful name it is. What a wonderful name it is and what a powerful name it is. THE NAME OF JESUS! Using it to remember several friends who are going through challenging times with health as in cancer. In times like this, when i seemingly felt helpless to help those in their lowest moments, when I run out of words to pray - I sing His name all over again! And I know He hears.
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