New Year's, Everland, Girl's Trip to Seoul

Here's a few pics from our recent activities. My girlfriend, Noelle, and I threw a small New Year's Eve party at her house. I did the cookin' and she did the hostessing. It was fun!

The hostesses with the mosteses!
Most of our New Year's gang...that's Patrick's head way in the back!

Noelle and I also went on a girl's trip up to Seoul. Our goal was to find the Forever 21(western shopping with American sizes. You have no idea how much we miss that!) and to find the midnight market. It's a market that literally does not get going until midnight! We found it and were TOTALLY unimpressed. All we thought when we were done was "we could have been sleeping!"

Noelle and me in front of a really cool and very western feeling shopping area called Myeong-dong
This is a Korean department store (ie there Dillard's). It's tons of stalls all piled on top of each other. Interesting, but really hard to shop in. It was pretty overwhelming.
I did find this! Too funny, huh?!
Victory!! We found Forever 21 and stocked up!!

Our last adventure before the kid's went back to school was to Everland. They have there sledding hills set up and we thought it would be fun.

The kiddo's in front of the entrance. It's the year of the tiger in Korea and it only comes around every 60 years. You can go on a 'safari' in Everland and the bears do tricks. It's neat to see the animals that close, but you also feel a little sorry for them.
We made it to the sledding hill...that's Elaina and Dad right in the middle.

The kiddo's and I. We were trying to show you what a beautiful and clear day it was. We don't get many clear days in Korea...too much smog! The fam in the 'fairy garden'. All of these flowers are fake. A giant flower made of real cactus's!

We thought Christmas break was over, but Aiden got a great surprise! We got about 8" of snow and Christmas break got extended by 2 days! Seoul got more snow than they have had in 70 years!!

Elaina, Chloe and Aiden. We took them sledding on the base. Doesn't the snow make everything look so pretty?!