What we've been up to...

Hi! I feel it's been so long... hummm, maybe cause it has!.... sorry : / 

We've been out & about...

Since we moved we've done so many things, nothing crazy or too adventurous. We've just been getting to know the area. 

The first time I did a post in this blog, was 6 months after we moved to Seoul. I explored and got to know a little bit about the City. I wanted to have things to tell. Now I felt the same way. It has been a while since I posted something, because I wanted to get to know our new neighborhood before I started fully blogging again.  

It's been great! 

In this time I've been able to find a School for Marky & one for myself (to learn Korean). We also, have a Korean friend that's gonna stop by once a week to tutor me. 

I found a Church with an English and a Spanish Mass. 

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We've enjoyed the last bits of the Summer...

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& our new house... & it's patio... : )

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& finding a Supermarket that has AMERICAN food!!! 

I almost heard singing angels as I was walking in... : ) 

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We've learned to use the Bus... Marky's dream of riding Tayo, came true! 

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We've walked all over the surrounding areas, like Itaewon and the Han River...

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& the Namsan park...

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& we've located our favorite places to eat... for now... : P

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& seen some amazing sunsets and views of the City...

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& celebrated 9 years of very, very, very happily ever afters... ❤

We went through a very big, but weak, Typhoon... and another one two days after... 

We took the kids to Children's Grand Park... will do a post on it later! 

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And we took our son to his very first day to School... Today... 

I'm still emotional about it. Marky has been with me, all through out his 3 years. He went to Montessori for a bit, in PR and he loved it... until we moved here. When we first got here, we put him in a Korean speaking "pre-school". We thought it would be good for him, so he wouldn't get bored at home... It wasn't. 

He was there for like 2 months and he came home crying every single day. He refused to go and as soon as he came home he would tell me, he did not want to go back. One day on a School trip he ran off and the teachers couldn't call him. They didn't speak English, he didn't speak Korean... I viewed my baby lost in this gigantic city, not knowing anything about anything...

 That was it... No thank you... 

& so we moved to the English hood... hehehe... 

 I'm happy that we found a School he REALLY likes, no crying! Montessori'esh type of educational system, and with Teachers and kids that speak English! 

He came home beaming! 

 Him having a good day, makes my day...any day! 

Till' very soon... promise... : )

xoxo

T. 

Jeongok Prehistory Museum

For the past couple of weeks, I've been really trying to get all caught up to date in my postings, and it seems impossible!!! We keep busy! hehehe... We went to the Prehistory Museum, then we finally made it to Namsan Seoul Tower, then we went to Shanghai, then I went with Hyeah to a kids role playing park and we took S.' cousins to Everland....

We've also been looking for an apt. This was one of the hardest, but I'm happy to announce we finally found one and will be moving at the end of the month! So exited to move to a new neighborhood!!! AND.... the very bestest part.... wait for it....... it has a patio!!!!!! You don't even know how happy this makes me!!!! A patio, in an apt. in the City... #unheardof!!!!  Ahhh.... to finally be able to hang my "hamaca"! : )

Back to this post...

The Jeongok Prehistory Museum, is in Jeongok-ri, Jeongok-eup, Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi Province.... To remember these names... Impossible!

It's located on the oldest and largest Paleolithic site in Korea.  

The modern building rested on top of two mountains forming a connection between them. To me it looked like a giant metal snake... pretty cool...

The Misty path... ; )

On the left side, the entrance...on the right, the exit...

Inside, we felt as if we boarded some sort of spaceship. 

I've never been a big fan of museums myself, but my little guy seems to love them. Any time we go to one, he seem to be super into it and wants to know everything about everything.

It showcased the evolution of man along the Hantan River. 

Yo con guille de fotografa...  : P 

Flowers & farms always look pretty to me... 

& we did some bug hunting...

& stone hopping...

& the fire... hummmm.... we need to work on this one... : )

& we did some excavating... 

& we headed back to the main building to get some refreshments... 

Pretty view... including the boy! : ) ♥

Olivia was there too... : )

On our way out, we stopped to take a look at the river...

& I saw a pile of rocks that reminded me of a picture I took, the first time we went to Switzerland.. 

An oldie, but a goodie! Aldelboden, Switzerland 2008... Good memories...

  We miss you Mimi!!! : (

I went down by myself, to see if it would be worth for all of us to get of the car and walk down to the river. It was a no-go... It was all rocks and when I looked down, while I was taking this picture, I saw something moving really fast by me... a snake... maybe... The monkey skills I developed while growing up in Guayabotas, came in handy... I've never walked over stones faster than this day! 

Since we didn't do any research on it, we had expected to see dinosaurs and made the mistake of telling Markus... there was none... We told him we would get him one at the museum shop, but there was no shop either... : (

Luckily, on our drive home, we found a roadside toy store that had one! 

We ❤ a happy kid! 

Even though I felt there was too little to see at the museum, the surroundings compensated for it. It's a great place to let your little ones run around, while us parents take in the pretty views and the fresh air. 

xoxo

T. 

Change

They say when change comes, it comes all at once.  So far this has been one crazy year for us. It's been packed with adventures and new things.  My husband often travels for work, so whenever he goes to a place we have not gone, we try to make a vacation out of it.  We started the year going to Spain, beautiful Barcelona, where my husband attended a convention.  After he was done with all the work, we took a couple of days to see as much as we could there.

Montserrat

El monasterio en Montserrat

La Boqueria

La Boqueria, Barcelona

Mercado en La Boqueria en Barcelona

After like 5 days in Barcelona we went to visit one of our best friends that lives in Switzerland (yo <3 Suiza) & had some great  5 more days there.

Bern, Switzerland

Bern Switzerland



During this trip our life changed!  Two months after we where on our way to Seoul, South Korea. We were packed with something else other than bags, we were expecting our 2nd baby...

A girl...

T.