Saturday was a great day for us. We got to ride the train into downtown Seoul. After that we found 2 playgrounds for Delaney to play on. She had a blast and was playing with another lil girl her age. After that we took a taxi over to Cheonggyecheon Stream, which runs right through the middle of downtown. After walking down that a bit we decided to head over to Gyeongbokgung Palace, the royal families residence during the Joseon dynasty. Brent was loving every minute of it and wanted to continue exploring but we had a 4:30 reservation at “Jump”, a martial arts comedy play. and man what a fun time we all had. Laney didn’t stop laughing and has been talking about it for 2 days now and asked at least 3 times today if we could go back. Brent got to participate in the show, 2 times! First he had to help an old man get up on stage and it was hilarious. Then later in the show they called him up on stage and he had to mimic what one of the performers was doing. They were about to duel when they did a weapon search on Brent and ended up finding an axe, some knives and a huge sword. It was so great, Brent was so funny. Wish i could have got the whole thing on camera.

On Sunday we spent the whole day at Insadong a traditional cultural shopping district. Needless to say we spent a lot of money and got a lot of cool gifts for ourselves and others. We also got to paint mask, one for Seth and one for Delaney.

And now we are packing and getting ready for the morning… We are prepared for an emotional time with the Foster Mom and Family and also for Seth being upset. We have an hour bus ride and then we are on the plane for 13hrs. We have a 5hr layover in New York and then we are on the plane home, as a family of FOUR!!

We have had so much fun in Seoul. It was a bit confusing at first but after 2 days we got the hang of it. Our family is definitely not cut out for the city but we made the best of every situation, even when our taxi driver took us to the wrong Social Welfare building, and when we couldn’t find the Airport Bus stop, or when we ended up on the wrong side of town with thousands of homeless people all around us coughing and drinking…. even through all of that we have loved every minute of our time in Seoul and look forward to the day we get to come back with Seth.