Finally A Home

Since May 30th we've lived out of seven different hotels - from Richmond, Chicago, Hawaii, Busan and Waegwan, with a five year old, a 12 month old, seven suit cases, and four plastic bins, bottles, diapers, toys, a lap top, books, magazines and videos and more. Steve and I could probably write a book on how to survive living in a hotel with small children long-term; what items to order for room service, etc, etc.

So now I'm happy to report that we have just moved into our new apartment!!!! Our home is in a town called Waegwan. It's very pretty here. I need to locate my cord that attaches the camera to the computer to upload more pictures, but yesterday at the park a photography student asked to take some pictures of Sadie for her training and she emailed them to me. This one is of Sadie getting dirty in the sand.

Steve has been in Seoul the whole week but luckily Sadie's nanny from Busan stayed with us this week and helped to unpack, did several loads of laundry for me without a dryer and helped us get settled. Quite a journey, but now I feel our new adventure can really begin.

Benjamin has ALL of his toys again (praise the toy gods!) and his bike that he rides every day. We are learning our way around the army base that is only down the street from us. Sadie is learning to walk. I got my hair cut today. It took lots of hand signals some pen and paper, several pictures and about five hair dressers trying to understand that I wanted the back length of my hair and the front length of my hair more even. I'm talking in English and they're all talking to me in Korean. After about 15 minutes of coming to some conclusion that I was still a little scared about, I got a great hair cut. Usually this method works pretty well in many situations and somehow it always works out in a mutual understanding. Thank goodness for hand and body language and some pretty universal hand signals. I even made a new friend today at the dept store's indoor play area. She's Korean and speaks English very well. I'm looking forward to seeing her again.

Poor Steve is at his 8th hotel stay but will soon enjoy home cooked meals again and our Sleep Number bed. Thanks everyone for all of your support over the past almost 3 months, the care packages and fun skyping!!