We had been promising our friends, who live in Waegwan, that we would visit for a month now. It's unfortunate that the same day we chose to visit was the first day of school holidays for Korean children resulting in really crowded expressways.
We left Friday evening after Chad got home from work and after tinkering with our new GPS for 30 or so minutes we were on our way.
The usual 2 hour 20 minute drive became a 3 and some change hours of Chad controlling his road rage and threatening to drive in unauthorized lanes but we eventually made it and stayed up way too late drinking wine and eating cupcakes in an air conditioned apartment.
This is pretty much heaven on Earth if you ask me.
The next day Chad and his friend, Tim, were going to compete in a reverse triathlon.
I'm not going to lie when I say I was a tad bit concerned about this whole thing considering that most of Chad's swimming instruction took place during the 3 hours that we were stuck on a freeway together the night before.
Fortunately, Chad persevered and finished the whole thing (even after making two wrong turns during the run and the bike) and didn't die therefore considering it a success!
Sarah and I then quickly herded the small children back to the house because we wanted bingsu ASAP and don't get between two sweaty, breastfeeding mamas and their bingsu.
We then drove in the hills for a bit until we found a crowded little creek full of Koreans and plopped our children in it while eating kimbap and hoping not to contract any strange organisms from the water.
We took advantage of their A/C a little while longer before turning around and driving back home but there will be more visits in the near future... I mean.... common'...
wine, cupcakes, bingsu, air conditioning and shallow creeks that can entertain your toddlers for hours?
MANY more visits.
(Chad says triathlons too!)
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Sunflowers will always remind me of my Stetten.
Drying peppers. They also dry rice in a similar fashion.
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After a particularly rainy night, we woke up to this little guy on our windowsill.
He stayed there all morning too.
He then thanked us for the use of our sill by pooping on it and leaving.
And look who is 7 months old (umm, almost 8 now but whatever)!!
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