This week has been busy, well part of the week busy the other half stuck at home waiting for better weather.
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| Typhoon Bolaven |
On Tuesday school was cancelled due to Typhoon Bolaven, thankfully by the time it got to us it was nothing more than a bit windy and some rain. We did however have a lovely day at home, catching up on a little dragonvale and other ipad apps. I think it did cause some havoc further south of us hitting some farming communities so I am very happy I did not get us. The boys will have to make up the day off school one Saturday in the future.
By Thursday Typhoon number two was upon us, again by the time it hit us it was only a tropical storm. Though it rained A LOT, and Olivia, Molly and I decided to spend the day inside and not get wet. Connor and Art looked like they just got out of the shower when they got home.
By Friday I was SO ready to spend some time out of our apartment and thankfully the weather gods looked kindly upon me and provided beautiful sunshine. Olivia and Connors scooters had just arrived from Australia, so we took them out for a spin. Olivia did really well seen she was only just getting the concept of how to work hers just before we left Australia. After taking Olivia for a scoot the dog for a walk we ventured out to the shops in the search for some wine I had brought the week before. I had found some wine on sale for 5000 won (about $4.50) and had only brought one bottle incase it was terrible. I was actually pretty good, or maybe just good in comparison to some other bottles I have had lately. Anyway was pretty disappointed to find out the were all gone :-(.
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| Connor wanting me to take this photo. |
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| then this one of their backs.. |
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Friday night Art and I got to go out with NO kids!!!! I had meet a lovely lady from Australia a couple of weeks back, her daughter goes to KIS. So Alice is now our brilliant baby sitter so we can have a life and go out. I was getting slightly worried that we would never find someone in our Dong to babysit for us, but along comes Alice. She lives about 6 subway stops away, but seen as it is SO safe here her Mum does not mind her catching the subway alone. So we went out to a local Chinese restaurant with other teachers that live near us and the Chinese teacher from KIS because she loves the restaurant here. She was able to tell us what to order and how to eat it, and it was VERY yummy.
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| Spooky tree. |
Saturday we all went to Changdeokgung Palace, it was a nice day but a
LOT of walking. Connor did so well, because he usually complains when
he has to walk anywhere but he ran around most to the day easily. The
palace was gorgeous, the secret garden beautiful and there was even a
performance of Royal Ancestral Rite Music. Connor thought the music was
very sad but found it interesting. He is a bit upset that we could not
see a king or a queen at the Palace or that he could not sit in the
King's chair.
Today was Australian Fathers day, so we made Art eggs and bacon for breakfast and gave him a little gift. Later Connor was lucky enough to be invited to his friend Ben's house for a play. Ben is another Aussie who's parents teach at KIS and they live at Good Morning Hill apartments. Takes us about an hour via public transport and walking to get there. think in would only take about 20 minutes by car. The Apartments had three or four playgrounds so we tried them all out then had a little picnic afternoon tea. Lisa (Ben's Mum) said that all the playgrounds have ccvt cameras, so if you put your tv on the right channel you can watch keep and eye on your kids while they play. Not that they have done that yet but it sounds pretty cool.
So we had a busy but nice end to the week.
By Friday I was SO ready to spend some time out of our apartment and thankfully the weather gods looked kindly upon me and provided beautiful sunshine. Olivia and Connors scooters had just arrived from Australia, so we took them out for a spin. Olivia did really well seen she was only just getting the concept of how to work hers just before we left Australia. After taking Olivia for a scoot the dog for a walk we ventured out to the shops in the search for some wine I had brought the week before. I had found some wine on sale for 5000 won (about $4.50) and had only brought one bottle incase it was terrible. I was actually pretty good, or maybe just good in comparison to some other bottles I have had lately. Anyway was pretty disappointed to find out the were all gone :-(.
Saturday we all went to Changdeokgung Palace, it was a nice day but a
LOT of walking. Connor did so well, because he usually complains when
he has to walk anywhere but he ran around most to the day easily. The
palace was gorgeous, the secret garden beautiful and there was even a
performance of Royal Ancestral Rite Music. Connor thought the music was
very sad but found it interesting. He is a bit upset that we could not
see a king or a queen at the Palace or that he could not sit in the
King's chair. 
Today was Australian Fathers day, so we made Art eggs and bacon for breakfast and gave him a little gift. Later Connor was lucky enough to be invited to his friend Ben's house for a play. Ben is another Aussie who's parents teach at KIS and they live at Good Morning Hill apartments. Takes us about an hour via public transport and walking to get there. think in would only take about 20 minutes by car. The Apartments had three or four playgrounds so we tried them all out then had a little picnic afternoon tea. Lisa (Ben's Mum) said that all the playgrounds have ccvt cameras, so if you put your tv on the right channel you can watch keep and eye on your kids while they play. Not that they have done that yet but it sounds pretty cool. 
So we had a busy but nice end to the week.
