I guess this is what they call jet lag...

Since I arrived I have been WIDE AWAKE at 5 AM each day. The first day I stayed in bed until Robert had to get up to get ready for work. The second day at 5 AM on the dot and I was wide awake again! I decided to get up typed my previous post and saved it in word since we didn't have internet yet and then watch one of our almost eight hundred TV channels that we have. I must add that there are only about a dozen that are in English. We even have a couple of English music channels too! Today, the third day, which is also Christmas here, I woke up at 5 but managed to go back to sleep till 6:30. I must also add that sleeping in on an air mattress is not the most comfortable but then again sitting on the floor watching TV or typing on the computer isn't really comfortable either! Robert sleeps though all of this too!

Being that it is Christmas, we have a very small pile of gifts in the corner of our living room which consists of the air mattress, two converter boxes, our computers, the new 52 inch TV and surround sound that we bought yesterday and of course the gifts! Very cozy and memorable! I wish we could have more than cereal for breakfast. I guess that will just add to the memory of this Christmas!

Yesterday in between our multiple trips to the PX we went exploring to try to find the Shalom House. It is a Christian organization that came highly recommended to us from friends in Lawton (Thank you Chris!) and their mission is to minister to the soldiers and families here. We found it and found out that they were going to be offering a dinner and get together on Christmas. Tonight we will head over there and we are looking forward to meeting new people and hopefully we can find a group to connect with again! During the day today we are planning on doing a little more exploring and trying to branch off the main streets and see what we can find! By the way the weather forecast for the next 10 days the high will not get above about 32 degrees and it is suppose to snow two or three of those days. I promise pictures will come soon and I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and we will be calling family later on today!

Traveling and my first Korean meal...

I arrived about 10 PM in Korea which was 7 AM in the states. I had been traveling for 24 hours and it had been a very long day. Then it took about an hour to get to the apartment from the airport. One of the Majors that Robert works with offered to take Robert to the airport to pick me up. I am so thankful for him because otherwise we would have been riding the train! Our apartment is beautiful! I can’t believe that I am going to be living here for the next two years! Luckily, I was able to go straight to sleep.
The next day Robert had to go to work till about 11. While he was gone I had my first encounter with a Korean workman at our apartment complex. He came to fix one of the water faucets in the laundry room and I don’t think that either of us understood what the other was saying, yet the faucet doesn’t leak now so I guess that is good! When Robert got home he took me out to show me around post and around town. My first day it was very overcast yet it was one of the warmer days they have had here lately, so it was nice walking around. There are some fairly big mountains around us yet they are kind of hard to see with the haze. It is about a mile from our apartment to post; on the way there it is all downhill which means on the way back there is a pretty good size hill to go up. All of the walking plus the hills means I will get a good workout wherever I am walking!
That evening Robert wanted to take me to this restaurant he had heard of in a little city about 15 min from us called New City. We took the train there and found the restaurant which ended up being really good! I forgot to take a picture of the food (Sorry Les). We ate muscles that were in a tomato base sauce and a plate with sautéed vegetables in the center and fresh sliced vegetables around the plate. Then of course they bring you pickles, kimchi, roasted oil, wasabi fish eggs, seaweed paper sheets, and sliced veggies soaked in a juice. Of course we drank Korean sake, which was wonderful! It meal was wonderful but I was stuffed afterwards. Then we decided to walk around and see what else was around. We also enjoyed green tea ice cream from Baskin Robins, a chi latte and a frozen coffee from a coffee shop. We also found a Korean bakery so we picked up some bread which Robert ate half of it on the way back to find a taxi to take us home. I opted to wait to eat mine for breakfast since I was still stuffed from dinner! Finally on the way home I was starting to get super tired and it was only about 8:30 pm. When we got back to the apartment I crashed and now I am up at 5 am and I can’t sleep – wide awake! We should have internet today hopefully! As for now I am typing up my posts and then I will post them when we get internet! Being here reminds me so much of Japan and I love it!

Introduction and Packing...

Welcome to our blog!! My wonderful sister Leslie has assisted me with the design and layout of my new blog! I hope that this will help us to keep everyone informed of our adventures and travels abroad! In less than 24 hours I will enbark on my journey across the other pond, pacifically speaking! Which means my next post will be from Korea. Robert left the Sunday after Thanksgiving and has completed all of his inprocessing and was able to find an apartment for us.

I am very ready to be in the same country with Robert but it is only a matter of time now! I will update more once I have reached my destination. I hope everyone knows that they are loved and will be missed dearly! Please keep in touch!