May 30, 2011 김수로왕릉 King Kim Suro's Tomb

I don't know if I mentioned it already but Dr. Peterson came home a couple days ago with his daughter Joy.  She's shy but very sweet.  Dr. Peterson took us out to lunch for some great meat.  I died of happiness.

So good because it's good meat and better because we grilled it.

김수로왕릉 King Kim Suro's tomb is just down the street from our house so we went and visited it.  We made Kenwood do the 3 bows (what you do at your ancestors' graves) at the tomb.  The place/memorial for the tomb is nice.  김소로왕 King Kim Suro was the king of the 가야 Gaya dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period in Korean history. 

김소로왕릉 King Kim Suro's tomb/memorial

김소로왕릉 King Kim Suro's tomb

Kenwood doing the 3 bows.

That was the main event/site we had to see and the rest of the day was free time and language practice.  Kenwood and I went to this meeting place for those who have the last name 허 Huh/Heo.  At the meeting place, they discuss many things and among one of those things is geneology.  However, when we went to go find out what the place was like and see if we could talk to someone, only a gardner came out and he sounded like he wasn't interested in talking.  He was pretty short in his speech so we didn't get a ton out of him.

Dr. Peterson then had us look at a few houses behind our houses.  We thought they were just houses but found out they were places where it showed people what it looked like inside shrines where people have their spirit tablets placed.  It was really neat to look inside since many of the shrines we haven't been able to look inside of them.