Anyunghaseo - in Korea!

We are now living in Korea!

We got to Korea on August 25th. The flight over went very well actually because the Army paid for four whole seats and Korean Airlines gave us the bulkhead row with two of what they call "bassinet seats". They are little baskets that attach to the bulkhead. The boys slept most of the way and that left Jim and I with 2 seats each, which was a blessing. We couldn't have asked for a better flight.

We went straight to a nice on-post hotel, www.dragonhilllodge.com, which was a good way to be received. We had to inprocess the next few days and after 8 days we moved into our house on-post. It's a pretty nice place and definitely large by Seoul standards. Jim lives up north in Tongducheon Monday - Friday, getting to come down to Seoul on most weekends. He is a Fire Support Officer for 1-72 Combined Arms Battalion and I am working in the 8th United States Army G5 (Future Plans) shop. 8th Army (www.usfk.mil) is commanded by LTG Valcourt and the United States Forces Korea is commanded by GEN Bell. They both work in buildings right next door to me, which is awful when you are a lowly Captain. Don't worry, though, I make a mean cup of coffee!!!

I will continue with some of our latest pictures of the boys and stuff we've been doing around Seoul!

This is a shot of Jimmy and Joey sporting their "Mommy support", donning the helicopter outfits! Starting to get a bit chilly, so they are wearing light jackets that they got from their California cousins Tara and Liam.
We went to the little Oktoberfest on post in late September. Petra, a very good friend of mine form Lawton, OK, lent us these cute baby Lederhosen outfits to wear! Petra is a German-American and also has twins, but they are already teenagers. It was really nice of her to share such special outfits with us. The Oktoberfest was a little disappointing since we've both been to the real deal in Munchen, but at least I won the arm-wrestling contest and Jim got 2d in the man's division. He probably won't like that I published that. Anyhow, our prizes got us a really nice free dinner but we both had little scabs on our elbows. Too funny!
My big boy Jimmy trying to eat a Breze (pretzel) at the Oktoberfest! So much for that low-carb diet, I had to have a couple liters of Bier, a Breze and a Jagerschnitzel.
Ah, finally, proof that we do explore the city and not just hang out on post! Jimmy is practicing his diplomacy in preparation for his run for the "world presidency" in 2048. We were on our way in the subway to MyongDong, a shopping district, when these ladies were insisting on communicating about the boys despite our lack of Korean knowledge and theirs of English. We decided we needed to commit "namja" to memory, it means "boy". This is important because she just got up and grabbed Jimmy's crotch in an attempt to determine his gender!
Lastly, here are the boys on their 8 month birthday sporting their cousins' colors, the Dodgers and Lakers. Just in case you are wondering, no, Jimmy did not pull Joey down backward right after I shot this picture, but they do that often enough! It's like Ultimate Fighting Championship on a daily basis. Such cuties, eh?