We finished the new bathroom downstairs and it turned out really nice, the kids are loving it. The bad thing is it makes me want to remodel the whole house now. I bought enough tile to be able to re-do the upstairs bathrooms, so that will be on our agenda in the next couple of months I hope.
Boyd left for Korea on Saturday morning. He flew to San Francisco, then to Korea. The plane ride was 13 hours from San Francisco to Korea. Because of the time change, Korea is 15 hours ahead of us, he arrived Sunday evening. The hotel had arranged a car to pick him up at the airport and take him to the hotel, then the production plant he was working with sent a car to take him to and from the airport which was nice, he didn't have to worry about how to get around town. He was in Seoul, which he said is a huge city, 10 million people, high rise skyscrapers all over the place. He said even the residential areas he saw were all high rise apartment complexes.
There was a mall under the hotel he was staying at and he went out one night with one of the guys from the plant who took him to a flee market, out to dinner and for drinks which he said was kind of fun. He was surprised that most people knew a little English and usually one other language, which is different from the US where we expect everyone else to know English, but we won't learn any other language. He was also surprised at the condition of the hotel and airport, he said the hotel was nicer than most hotels he had been in the the states, and their airport was very clean, well maintained and the staff was very friendly, but in San Francisco things were run down, messy and the staff was rude. We think we are so great in the US, and it turns out, we're not as great as we think.
The kids and I went ice skating while Boyd was gone. We had a great time, the kids did pretty good once they got the hang of it. JoLyn has a bruise the size of a baseball on her butt, otherwise we came out injury free.
Hope everyone is happy and healthy, hopefully we'll see you soon.
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Your bathroom looks fantastic!! Excellent job! Sorry it makes you want to re-do the whole house. Sounds like Korea was great! Whenever I travel abroad, it always make me feel bad to say I'm American. Americans are arrogant, fat, and ignorant. Like you were saying, most every other foreign kid grows up knowing their native language and some English. I just try and be as nice as possible and learn as much about another country while I'm there. I've always been treated very well. Korea sounds great, I wish I had gone.
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