TGIF!

YAY! It is Friday here in South Korea. Today is Gavin's last day of school before Christmas Break. I am positive his class will do nothing special since his teacher is big on NOT doing holidays. Which I really feel is a shame. She did do "A Day Of Giving" on Tuesday though which I guess is as close as she gets to noticing there is a holiday. They had the parents and kids split into 3 groups. Each group came in at a different time. My time was from 10-10:30. All of the parents brought some sort of food item. Mine was juice. Gavin was all smiles and waiting for me to get there. He and I sat and had some food. Then we exchanged gifts. His gift to me was a picture frame he had made with a picture of himself and some beads. My gift to him was a Game Cube game.

It was nice to have some time alone with Gavin. Court was back at the apartment with the girls.
And that was the day of giving.

This last weekend we were invited over to friends of Court's for a BBQ. Yep in December no less. Steve and Ju-he (I think that is what her name is?) live just a few blocks from us. So we took a nice little walk. I was actually pretty happy to be out of the house and I always enjoy a good walk through the streets of Daegu. You never know what you are going to see!


Steve lives off post in a Korean apartment. We get to the door and I noticed there was no fourth floor. I guess Koreans feel that the number 4 is unlucky..similar to American's with number 13. So no fourth floor...Steve lived on the 5th floor. His apartment was really nice. It almost made me wish we lived off post. He has typical heating for this area of the world...the floors are heated. Ohhh and sooooo warm. I decided to sit on the floor while we ate and it was so nice and warm....

Abby is just the friendliest little girl. Here she is with Mike. She just crawled up in his lap and started yapping.

Here she is with Steve's girlfriend Ju-He. This is her new best friend. Not only did Ju-He feed her all sorts of yummy stuff but she put a teeny bit of Lip gloss on her.

This is where all the food was so Abby just sat and made herself right at home!

We brought along the Disney Princess Christmas Movie for Maddie to watch. She sat and watched it with Julian and Rob (above) and Margie (below). These are all people that Court works with.

My favorite part was going up on the roof. I think if we could do that at my place I would sit up there a lot and just look at stuff. There is always something new to see. Below is our apartment complex on Camp George.

Here is just a view of the street below.


The tall building is one I can see outside my kitchen window. I have been watching them build it for awhile now and it is sort of a landmark for me.

Here is the Tower for Woo-Bang Land.

Winter Kimchi stored on the roof. These belong to the landlord.

And that is it from the weekend. It was a nice time. We went home around 7:30. The kids were a little worried about walking in the dark but I enjoyed it.

Yesterday....

Well as yesterday was payday I went out to do some Christmas shopping. First I had to walk to Camp Henry to give Court some money. As we were getting ready to cross the street (with the cross walk sign too) a lady started to run the red light and I had to jerk Maddie back real quick. It scared me really bad!

Gave Court his money and then caught a cab. We went to Camp Walker PX. There is not much selection. I got a few games for Gavin and movies for all the kids. We ate Anthony's Pizza for Lunch. I really wanted Taco Bell but did not want to wait in line. Next we walked over to the 4 seasons. This is where the toys are. Not a whole lot left. We did get a few items for the cat's for their Christmas. Walked back over to the PX and met up with a friend named Lois. We all caught a cab back to my place. Then Lois and I sat and chatted until it was time to get kids from school. That is only the second time I have been out on my own here and it felt pretty good. I had considered going to Walmart today but Court has the money card.

This weekend we need to finish up Christmas Shopping as well as do some major grocery shopping.