Standing in line to get our boarding passes to move to South Korea.
Lindsey and Will :)
Seth and Mike
Mom!
so nervous right about now
in Korea!
Finally in Korea, waiting on our flight from Seoul to Daegu.
our temporary apartment in Daegu
our first meal in Korea: Galbi we weren't very good with chopsticks at first, but now we pluck flies from the sky with them.
Finally, our own apartment!
We didn't have internet the first month we were here, so we had to open a window and "borrow" it from our neighbors.
the shower is the bathroom is the shower
sock monkey makes us sleep on the couch
our shoes are always that neat. they're posing for the picture.
the perfect napping apartment
our neighborhood
the river by our house
MoonKkang Foreign Language Academy
our work building
the river by our house. kids ice skating. yay!
church art across the street from our apt.
Chilgok
on top of Mt. Hamji in Chilgok
Cordia and Nick
a man sleeping in the warm sun amongst the burial mounds.
there is public outdoor workout equipment all over this country
Nick
fried rice
Dongwasa Temple Guardians
Hye Jung and Mike
Mitchell!
Nick and Sang Hee
Nick, Sang Hee, and Cordia
Mike, Nick, Sang Hee, Hye Jung, Cordia, and Mitchell
on our way up to the Gatbawi. we raced that lady all the way up to the top.
these lanterns lined the walkway for the last 200 meters of the hike.
a hermitage in the mountains.
instead of tossing a coin into a well for good luck, make a coin stick to a rock wall for good luck.
Gatbawi. over 1000 years old. the flat rock is symbolic of a traditional Korean hat.
Mike and Nick with their King beers at the LongLifeLounge. Notice the table has a controller on the side. That's to control the temp of our cup holders. Pretty amazing.
Hye Jeong and Sang Hee
Mike and Nick
The bars always bring out appetizers when you order a drink. At the bar, they brought out little dried fish, seaweed, dried bananas, and chocolate rocks.
It didn't take us long to figure out how much fun it is to stick the seaweed to your teeth and take pictures.
Nick, Hye Jeong, Sang Hee, Cordia, Mitchell
George and Emma
the name of this meal is mok lu. we were served rice with about 20 side dishes that included crab, dried fish skins, vegetable pancake, pumpkin, shell fish, and seaweed soup.
the entrance to Kyemyong University: where Kim Hye Jeong went to university to study police administration.
Nick, Cordia, Kim Hye Jeong, Sang Hee
the campus has a traditional folk complex that they built recently in order to teach children traditional manners and customs.
Sang Hee and Kim Hye Jeong
that guy was just playing a wooden flute.
on the subway
chicken feet delight
A co-worker's wedding
our favorite coffee shop..Hands Coffee
Playing an English game with kids on our Hapkido field trip.
Beef Galbi
Mike and Hye Jung
WaeDo Island: just one huge beautiful garden.
Exploring Windy Hill!
Traditional performance at the Herbal Medicine Festival in Daegu.
Cho Bap. One of our new favorite meals.
turn up the volume. in this temple with the painters working on it, there are some monks chanting.
Daejeokgwangjeon, a shrine at Haeinsa (temple)
my favorite way to capture the traditional architecture in a photograph
some workers were painting one of the shrines.
and again.
a couple of the rooftops and the mountain scenery
the detail in the architecture is phenomenal.
the main courtyard of haeinsa
an un-painted shrine
you are not allowed to take photos inside the shrine, so i had to back far away to get this. the man's noggin in the bottom of the screen can serve as a size reference for the statue.
lantern, pagoda, and Daejeokgwangjeon
my nasty feet. the fly seems to enjoy them. almost to the peak of Gayasan.
made it. that there's nick.
and this here's cordia. isn't she darling?
