Family Visit to Korea!

Back in July some of our family came here to Korea to visit us. We were so happy to hear that someone wanted to come enjoy this amazing country with us for a while, and they were here for two weeks!! (Still not long enough to see everything though!! lol)

Upon landing in Korea we gave Kathy, Brittany, and Michelle gift bags of survival needs while in Korea which included things like, a T-Money Card, Practice Chopsticks, K-Pop Fans, Toilet Paper, Rose Flavored Gum and Cell Phone Accessories.. you know.. the essentials.

On their first official day here we all headed to the DMZ which was a trip that took up most of the day. While it was raining we all still had a great time crawling through the tunnels and realizing that we are super close to North Korea!

They were here for 4th of July and our mission for that day was to be as American as possible...

Mission Accomplished.

We then spent a fabulous 4 days in Seoul.. because you need that many days if not longer to see the whole city!!! In Seoul we introduced them to Korean Baseball, The Han River, King SeJong (yes that is Michelle planking on him), Korean Comedy Shows, Seoul Tower, all the Dongs (Myeongdong Insadong and Dongdaemun), 4D Movies.. and of coarse CHEESY BITE PIZZA! 

We also did a wine train tour while our family was here, it was great fun until they cut us off the wine and put us in a bus to the ginseng museum over an hour away.. nap time. I did however manage to beat everyone in our train car for the title of rock paper scissors or Kai Bai Bo in Korea. 

And now for the awesome random pictures (that you may or may not understand):

We can't thank Kathy, Brittany, and Michelle enough for enduring that long a** flight to come out here, and we hope you all had as much fun as we did while you were in South Korea!!

(All photo credits given to Kathy, Brittany, and Michelle because somewhere between our soju bowls and the excitement of pyeongchang winning the olympic bid Zak and I lost our camera!!!)

Thanks for reading!!! xxx

Holiday season in South Korea!

Its that time of year again and I am more excited than usual about it this year!!! Just being able to be together, have a nice home, and live in such an awesome country. This has definitely been a great year for us.. excluding Zak's time in the hospital..!

Thanksgiving was spent with friends, and although North Korea tried to ruin it, our plans worked out and we had a great time. I have been wanting to put up the tree since..um.. the beginning of November but Zak made me hold off until after Thanksgiving and im glad he did. Often times people forget about Thanksgiving and move right into Christmas. So the day after Thanksgiving our tree went up!!! :) We haven't had it up in two years and every time I look at it I get such a warm feeling inside.

So lets rewind a bit to the weekend before Thanksgiving. We met up with our friends in Seoul and shopped till we dropped! Myeongdong is a whole shopping district with everything from shoe stores, clothing stores (even stores like H&M, Forever 21, and Zara!) By far my favorite part was discovering that they had a Lush store. I have never been happier to set my eyes on bath bombs and body wash! :) By about 4pm Myeongdong gets VERY crowded, when exiting a store you are in heel to toe walking.. its like black friday madness every day of the week!!

Here are some pictures we captured along the way!

Zak decided to try on some native wear...

(By far the funniest picture of Zak that I have!! Every time I look at it, it makes me laugh!)

And then came the arcade.. Korean arcades are far better than American! 

And of coarse.. Zak has to beat my high score ;)

The mall has a beautiful Christmas display outside, Koreans LOVE the holidays just as much as I do!!!!! 

So in all we have had a great week, still pretty busy learning the Korean language.. distinguishing between the "proper" way and the "known" way to speak. 

On another note.. our dog Pip is still a a crazy nut. She was spayed about a month ago and is slowly coming out of her "mothering" stage. We have put away most of her toys for now because she just protects them to much and I can tell she is unhappy feeling like she has to watch over them. I don't know where she found my cat ear headband from Halloween.. but she did.. and its fuzzy.. so naturally she thought it was her baby..

I hope you have a great week! We are spending next weekend at the Hilton Millennium in Seoul for my birthday, I am so looking forward to it and will take plenty of picture to share! 

Thanks for reading xxx