Da Havs

Donna has pretty much kept up with the Tale of Ryan, so thought I’d just pipe in a bit. When we first got here, it still felt pretty surreal. Our first meeting actually reinforced that feeling for me, strangely, because he was just so perfect – happy, healthy and so mild-mannered. I thought it would [...]

Thursday night we stayed at the Seoul Hilton for our anniversary. We had a great meal at the Il Ponte Italian Restaurant and then watched American tv until midnight. We got up at 8:00 am Friday and took a nice long American shower and went down to our delicious American breakfast! [...]

Last night we met Tom and Joe from some Board Game Geek thing. They are both here with their families teaching at a Universal School. It was really nice meeting them. We also met Chad, an expat doing work here in Seoul for another week. We played 3 games with T [...]

We got to spend about an hour and half with Ryan again today. We called because we thought we were going to be late, but ended up being on time. We left Eastern in a van and all of us went to Mrs. Cho’s. Mom, Hav, Aunt and SIL. As soon as [...]

Sunday we got up early, showered (again, the sit on the floor with a bowl of water shower), and ate breakfast. Breakfast here consists of soup, rice and veggies in your typical Korean meal. It doesn’t change from your typical Lunch or Dinner. Everyone then piled into the car Hav’s Mom, 2 Aunts, [...]

Let’s see, yesterday Mom, Imo and I went shopping in Dongdaemun market. We took the subway to get there, which is pretty easy to use. I actually made a transaction all on my own! I bought a 5 dollar pair of pants, that are funny looking but I think will be comfortable. [...]

OH MY GOODNESS! What can I say? We have the cutest little boy in the world!! He completely captured our hearts today.
But let me start at the beginning. Because I got up so early today, noon took FOREVER to get here. The longest morning of my life. We finally got on the road (sans water [...]

I’m not just talking about the 7000 miles, obviously, although that was long too. (Three words for you: World Business Class.) Finally here and finally going to meet my son. Wow. That’s crazy. It sure makes me think, like it’s time to put away childish things and all that. (Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean boardgaming.)
And [...]

We arrived Seoul last night at 9 pm. We made good time coming from Tokyo. We had to use the restroom first, and by the time we got to the lines for immigration, we were the very last ones in the Non-Korean lines (of which there were only 2). After going through [...]

It is midnight and I am still trying to decide what to wear tomorrow. Hav is yowling for us to watch one more episode of the Family Guy.
Seoul, South Korea, here we come!
D