Big foot!

I thought I had big feet...

Hello big foot!

Togi has officially quadrupled in size since I brought her home 5 weeks ago! Now that I know she won't stay small like the salesman said... I'm secretly hoping she keeps growing and becomes a gigantic cuddly lap bunny!

Sorry Mom!

Dear Mom,

I know you say it's not nice to steal flowers from people's yards, but these roses are growing all over the place where I live... I couldn't resist!

Poked with needles!

Aaron's shoulder has been in a lot of pain since teacher volleyball season started around here! I guess that's what happens when the team expects you to spike every 20 seconds! Over the past couple months, quite a few of his coworkers have been hassling him about seeing their own personal oriental doctors for some acupuncture (which is called Cheem here)... This week, he finally gave in! Yesterday was his 1st treatment. Today was his 2nd, and I went along to document it all!

I'll bet your doctor's office doesn't display a gigantic array of needles in a nicely framed wall hanging like this place! Nothing like needles to welcome you into the waiting area!

Aaron was quickly ushered into the medical area of the clinic and given a heated bed to lay on. They asked him to take off his shirt (my favorite part!) and lay down while they strapped these electrical suction cups on his back, neck, and shoulders. I watched his muscles all twitching as the electricity was cranked up! Youch!

Here's another shot of the electric suction cups! Notice he was nice and comfy! They gave him a pillow to place between his legs, and one to cuddle with! :)

This was the tray of needles outside his little cubbyhole of a room!

and this was the look I got when I took the picture of the tray of needles! haha! This means, "NO!" in Korea... and believe it or not, It's actually not as offensive as it seems! Everybody does it!

I then was told, "Boyfriend treatment, girlfriend outside." haha! So, while I wasn't allowed to document anymore of Aaron's acupuncture, I will tell you that they poked him with over 50 needles - including 8 in his head... and believe it or not, he already says he's feeling a lot better!

After getting that many small needles poked in him for a 1/2 hour, we headed over to Mickey D's for some feel better ice cream!

Yeongdo Port Festival

Aaron and I were invited to go with the Che Family to the Yeongdo (Island) Port Festival on Sunday! The festival had all kinds of entertainment, and for all ages!

Here is korea's form of bumper boats! There are no motors in these... the kids actually have to pedal them to make the wheels move! It didn't seem to bother them though!

One of the main forms of entertainment for the festival was this quiz game! About 100 Korean middle school students sat here, in these chairs, for over 2 hours, answering questions about the history of Yeongdo Port! The winner won a laptop computer!

This was my favorite part! A Hip Hop contest! These guys were legit!

The festival had police and military ships open to the public to tour ~ Here I am, sitting in the captains chair of a huge police ship! I loved that we were able to play around with the controls, talk on the phones, and sit in the captains seat! That was my kind of tour! (Teju, Aaron, Me, and Emily)
Mr Che arranged for us to ride on this pirate ship around the harbor! Minus the extreme wind, it was really awesome!

Here we are, inside the ship! (Mr. Che, me, and Teju)

I found this jacket and hat hanging on the wall, and put it on! Aaron likes to make faces behind me, when I think he's smiling for the picture!

Emily and I!

Teju, Me, "Wendy's mom", and Mr. Che near the bow of the ship... with the pirate!

It was sooooo windy! I'm actually holding my hair down in this picture and it's still flying everywhere!
You can tell that Aaron builds special relationships with his students, because, as we were walking, Teju grabbed Aaron's hand! In Korea, this is what best friends, or sons and dad's do together. I thought it was really cool.

We had an awesome time with the Che's and Emily, as always! We are so blessed to have such an awesome Korean family to love on us!

Mini World Cup Match!

On Saturday, Aaron, and I ventured over to Gyodeem Elementary School to watch my school play in their first game of the mini-World Cup! As it turns out, we do indeed live in a small world, because when we got there, Aaron immediately noticed that his kids were playing my kids! Yep, it was Yeongdo against Gamjung! With hundreds of schools in the area, what are the chances?!

Here are my boys, with coach Jason, during the halftime break, getting a little pep talk! At this point, the score was 1-0! We were winning!
The game ended in a tie, so there was a shoot out, where each team had 4 chances to make a goal...

This is when my boys thought there were going to win!

and this is when they realized they weren't. It didn't help that Aaron's school's goalie was 6 feet tall!

I felt bad for my boys, because I knew they really wanted to win and had been practicing everyday, but it was nice to see Aaron's kiddos win a victory! They cheered like they were in the major leagues, and danced around the field like David Beckham! It was actually really cute, and was really awesome to see them interacting with Aaron. You can tell they absolutely adore him!

The school happened it be smack dab in the middle of an industrial area, sprinkled with brightly painted walls, rusted from years of rain. We thought this one was beautiful and had to take a quick snapshot! :)