I think for the most part I am a pretty good cook and I enjoy cooking. Life around our house has been a little crazy this past week. I haven't known if I am coming or going. Anyway this morning I was making breakfast for the kids and forgot about the toast.... Looking at this picture of burn toast reminds me of my mom. Sorry Mom, but I have to rat you out on your toast making skills ~ more often than not while growing up if my mom made toast for us this is how it would come out. Then she would scrape the black off, slap jelly on it and make us eat it anyway. My kids are lucky, I just threw it out.
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In between shipping the car and packing out we got a knock on our door telling us to get to the Dragon because there is a Denver Bronco in the house! I have no idea how I missed this memo seeing how I have the worlds biggest Denver Bronco fan living in my house. Well, my "Bronco Fan" is out of town, but I knew my duty as a "good wife" was to throw the kids in the (borrowed) car and race to the Dragon to get an autograph for the Hubby. So, that is what I did. Here we are below with Tyler Polumbus #76 Tackle for the Denver Broncos. We barely made it to meet Tyler - he was getting ready to leave as we were arriving. However he graciously stayed signed autographs and chatted with us for a while, we even met his wife Liz and in true "Trish" form I gave them advise where to go and what to do in the Seoul. In the picture below Tyler let Boy 2 try on his 1st game jersey! How cool is that? Boy 2 was super excited about this as I overheard him telling his friend that it was 'like a dress'. I also overheard Boy 2 telling his friend about 'the Denver Bronco' picking him up in the air saying "I was so high I was a little scared"! Tyler and Liz, thanks for supporting our troops and coming to Seoul! And Tyler, just know ~ I think you have a fan for life in Boy 2!
This week has been a little crazy. I have been working on getting things ready to move. I had to clean the car inside and out, (and after all the snow we have had it was NASTY!) I had to empty it out and make sure it only had 1/4 of a tank of gas or less. On Wednesday I headed over to Camp Kim to ship her out! Everything went off pretty smooth other than SOMEONE had 90,000 won worth of tickets she had to pay before they would let her ship the car! HUMMMM..I'm going to blame that on Hubby since he isn't here to help. ;-) After shipping the car I had to get back to organizing the house for the move. I had to pick out 1,200 pound worth of things I think we will need right away when we get to our next destination, which I forgot to tell you all will be Ft. Hood, Texas, USA. This first shipment should arrive about the same time we do, so I sent all sorts of kitchen stuff, bedding, towels, toys, more kitchen stuff, curtains (custom made), wall decorations and other things I can't remember... It took me 4 days to seperate everthing and it only took them 1.5 hours to pack it all up!
There, I said it. Yes, I have mixed emotions about it. I love Korea. We have been here for 1 year and 10 months (almost). On the day we fly out of Korea, we will have been here 1 year, 11 months and 3 days. Not that I am keeping track or anything. It was a sad day when I found out we were moving, our time was cut by 1 year and 1 month. Dang it, we haven't done everything we wanted to do. There are still places all over Seoul we have not been, not to mention we haven't traveled to all the places we wanted to travel to! If we just had endless amounts of money we could have fit everything in! Yes, we have had some GREAT times here and I know we shouldn't be greedy, it is time for others to come experience the "Land of the Morning Calm", or the "Land of the Not Quite Right", or my personal favorite and the one I made up in my own head, the "Land of the Custom Made"! I'm not going to get all sappy here (not yet anyway), I'll save that for my last post on "Six in Seoul" so start stocking up on the tissues and get ready to have a big cry with me!
Right after I arrived here my friend Jenny was about to move to back to the states, but before she moved she introduced me to a few fantastic people via the telephone. Over the past 2 years I have talked to most of these guys 4 times a week, helping them with their English. Not only have I helped them, but they have helped me. Anytime I need a native speaker to help me get something done I give one of these guys a call. We have gotten together a few times over the past 2 years and I have grown very close to these guys. I will hate not being able to chat on the phone with them, but we will still have email! This month Bunco was off post in one of the fabulous apartments in Seoul. This is the view my friend Beth has from her living room. How awesome is that? Here are a few amazing ladies I like to hang out with ~ don't you just love the wizard hat? We didn't have a Bunco tiara & Beth only has boys, so we do what we can. And this is Beth. (The one with the super cool apartment.) Our fabulous Bunco group!
On Tuesday, 19 January we loaded a bus and headed for the slopes! We went to Hyundai Sungwoo Resort. This was our first ski trip here in Korea and it was the very first ski trip for Boy 2 and Girl (Boy 1 & 3 did not join us). Anytime we take a bus trip here in Korea, we ALWAYS stop at a rest stop. This guy was out singing in the freezing cold (I'm talking 14 degrees F) so a few of the girls and I decided to get on stage with him and have our picture made. It wasn't until we got back on the bus that we found out he was singing to raise money for an orphanage. I totally would have given him money had I only known. Boy 2 learning to ski. Boy 2 getting frustrated with learning to ski. Girl learning to ski. After about an hour and a half of instructions, Girl was ready for a green! Here we are at the top of the hill getting ready to ski down together for the first time! Girl LOVED skiing! Boy 2 didn't find it as easy to ski as his big sister did. He did awesome, but never made it to the top of the mountain. After a couple of hours of trying to teach him, his Mommy needed a cocktail. We tried ski school, but the language barrier was too much for him. Hangin' with Dad after a fun day on the slopes. I thought this was funny, these were everywhere, they are PSP's ~ you stick your hands through the holes in the plastic to play. And if the PSP stations aren't enough, well, just venture over in front of one of these big screen TV's, take a seat and play XBox. The bus ride home, Julie and Don couldn't hang with us.... Me with my handsome husband...the sad thing about this day, I didn't get to ski with him even one time.
On 4 January we had the biggest snowfall in over 70 years here in Korea. It snowed for hours on end and we ended up with over 11 inches of snow! School was closed in many areas, extending our Christmas break by another 2 days! For the kids on post they will be making up their snow days later on in the year, but for the kids that go to Korean schools, they had to make up their snow day the following SUNDAY! Yes, you heard me correctly, Sunday; they couldn't make it up on Saturday because Saturday is a regular school day here. (American students have it easy compared to Korean students!) This is what I woke up to on 4 January! The kids couldn't wait to get outside and play in the snow! These next pictures were two days later when I finally ventured out to join in the big neighborhood snowball fight!
This year Hubby and I were super excited to go to the fish market on New Year's Day for fresh shucked oysters! I wish this could be a yearly tradition, but I'm not sure that is possible since we will be living in CENTRAL TEXAS next New Year's Day. About 200 fresh shucked oysters, and when I say fresh shucked, that is what I mean. The little old lady is shucking as you are buying. We bought all of these for 30,000 won (just under 30 USD). While we were there I grabbed this luscious piece of tuna.
New Year's Eve at our house is a day for relaxing, playing games, eating fondue and sippin' wine! If you don't want to get out of your PJ's today, you do not need to...don't want to brush your hair, no worries (but you do have to brush your teeth). This NYE was no exception. Here we are around noon starting with the first course, cheddar cheese fondue! This is my favorite course. I make cheese fondue with beer, garlic, ground mustard, Worcestershire, and sharp cheddar cheese. We use apples, carrots, cauliflower, assorted breads, olives and anything else that appeals to us at the time. The second course is the 'meat fondue'! This is Boy 1's favorite course and we normally start round two a few hours later. We cook our meats in peanut oil. Normally we have steak, chicken, shrimp and stuffed mushrooms. We use a tempura batter to dip the shrimp and mushrooms in and we stuff the mushrooms with cream cheese and chives.....and boy are they good. In fact I want one now! In between food rounds we play games, and Boy 1 eats snacks....even though we just stuffed our faces. Our third and final course is the 'chocolate fondue'! This is the course the kids wait for all day. I make a white chocolate fondue, white chocolate, amaretto & heavy whipping cream. Some of our favorite things to dip in the chocolate are bananas, strawberries, pound cake, marshmallows and cherries! (Yes, we do have an extra girl in this photo - we are considering adopting her! ;-) This was the VERY FIRST year we let all our children stay up till midnight! As soon as our clock struck midnight, we toasted with sparkling cider! Boy 3 took one sip, looked at me like I had 3 heads and in a super mad voice said "MOM! You gave me wine!" Then he marched right to the kitchen and poured it down the drain.
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