We're Here!!!

We arrived in Korea Monday night at 5:50 pm and did not get to our house until 9:00 pm. When it was all said and done we had traveled for...wait for it...27 hours!!! It was definitely a long day. The kids were great though and the flight was smooth. We (especially me) were all very jet lagged, but are now on "Korea time". We are in a house, which we do not like, but found out today that a base house is available and we will be moving on 13 November. That was good and bad news. Good because like I said we don't really like the house we're in right now, but bad because we literally this morning finished totally unpacking. If you are wondering what we don't like I will fill you in...we feel like we have been taken over by flies (we live in the country and are surrounded by rice patties and other gardens) and while beautiful, very stinky because they fertilize with manure and therefore very full of flies. We have also seen 2 mice very close to our front door...again, the whole country thing. We do not have even 1 full sized bathtub.
The only bathtub we have is a traditional Korean soaking tub. (I will take some pics of this place eventually and post them) They also don't have showers like we do. There bathrooms are one big room with a toilet, sink and a removable shower head connected to the sink with a drain in the middle of the room! We have 2 of these and we basically consider them non-functional. Our dishwasher is the smallest thing in the world, also and barely fits 3 plates, so we are using as much paper/plastic as possible and to top it all off our stove doesn't work! I know that is a laundry list of complaints, but the place does have a few redeeming qualities....it's BIG by Korean standards...4 bedrooms, we have a fenced in front yard, there are 5 balconies, 3 of which are closed in and it has a great kitchen sink. However, we are definitely hoping this 3 weeks flies by, so we can get into American base housing.
We have had fun going out and exploring the town. We've ventured out twice and have gone into a lot of fun shops. We haven't bought anything yet, but we definitely have a long list going. We went into a custom tailor shop last night and the guy told us that we could pick out any fabric and he would make Patrick a custom suit for $160!!! I'm attaching a few pics of us out in the town and 1 of Patrick paying our rent. Our rental agency is called Obama Realty (they name there companies after American things that they think we like). We have to pay our rent in cash, so he's holding up 1.5 million won! As a side not there biggest won is a 10,000 won and that is less than $10 US!!! They also had the Osan Air Show on Wed and we took the kid's to that. It was a lot of fun and is a HUGE deal here in town. Tons of people were there. A Korean man came up and started taking pics of Elaina. A little weird, but we know it's just because they love her hair. Patrick took her to run an errand the other day and she came home with barrettes in her hair from some Korean women.
I'll get pics up of this place soon and since I only have 3 weeks to do it that gives me some pressure!o