Wow, I'm finally able to blog again. I've been locked out for a very long time. I will be writing up some of what has been going on in my life.

Bummer, friends and family. My camera broke when I visited my parents in North Dakota, so I will not be able to post any of the Korean seen for a while. Unfortunately you will have to allow me to bore you to death with my tedious banter, and maybe you will learn something. Who knows, maybe I will even learn something.

Gee, I feel that an update is long overdue...

Since we last talked I have done quite a few things. I'm going to start with Christmas. This Christmas I decided to do something a little different inspired by the original Anonymous Santa, Larry Stewart, and lacking any family connections in this foreign land. Lin has gone home to visit her family whom she has not seen for 2 years. So I am kind of more-or-less alone in the sense that my family is not here, like many other expats. I went to Seoul Station to give to the Homeless that take shelter in the tunnels of the subway system. It is a really nice feeling to be giving to individuals who can not give anything back to you. And hopefully in some small way I was able to help them tonight.


Before I went to Seoul Station I spent the day with Church friends helping for the wonderful service we had at Youngnak Presbyterian Church. If any of you are interested in seeing our service you can go to http://myiwe.com/ and click under the TV section. This service was a combined service of many of the English ministries within Seoul.

The story will be continued...

We went to Kyeongju for the weekend. It was a lot of fun even though it rained half the time we were there. Because our tour was all in Korean I did not understand any of it but I got these really neat pictures

Again I have left you all for a while, Here are some new pictures of Daejeon.

Lin-lin and I went to the Grand Children's Park yestday. We saw some truely amazing things while there and caught some of it on film.

A man had this little cockatoo he let me have on my shoulder for a couple pictures.














This is quite possibly the cutest thing I've seen here in Korea.














These are some birds that we were able to get some mugs of.

Ok here are the pictures of Yongpyong Ski resort I said I would put up. The resort was exciting but the skiing is much better in Montana. The hills were very icy.
















Here is the lobby of the hotel we stayed in.
















Me on the hill; the first time night skiing. What a blast!!!






























From our hotel at night.
















A View of the lights set up for night skiing.















This is the top of the gondola.

Hi again,

Sorry I have abandonded you all for a while. I saw some fantastic cherry blossoms here in seoul so I need to let you all see them. And maybe if I'm not to tired after that I'll put the ski pictures I said I would put up months ago. Hope you all enjoy these pics.

While at Seoul land Lin-lin and I found this stone column.

Last weekend we went to Seosan where Lin-lin's cousin lives. Here are some pictures I took in the city.

This is a ship that has been converted to a coffee shop. I didn't get a chance to actually try the coffee, but I thought the building was neat.

Seosan had a fish market. Haven't really seen anything like this bach in the US so I thought I would put it up so you can see what I'm seeing.


While we were there we looked at a Buddhist Temple and I took some pictures and I have a few more of this city I will be putting up.

I'm beginning to realize that my definition of cold and the Korean definition of cold are two different things entirely. Everywhere I go on the busses and trains I cook. I'll explain more about this later when I post the pictures from our ski trip; but for now I need some sleep so talk to you folks later.

A couple of weekends ago, Lin-lin and I decided to take the City tour. It was really fun and very inexpensive. We saw part of the Korean War Memorial-- the name list was a bit heart wrenching.

Lin-lin and I in the Seoul Tower.














Me being silly before the tour.















I'm still not sure what this stone mound is for. But I was told it had something to do with ancestors. It is at the bottom of the Seoul Tower.
















I think you folks back home will have a hard time understanding what I mean by cookie cutter apts. So here are a few more photos of the apts. This is in downtown Seoul.






























Shots of Seoul Tower




















































































































This is Lin-lin at the Korean War Memorial.






























This a statue of two brothers--one fought for the South and the other fought for the North in the Korean war-- who found each other on the battle field.














This is like the Vietnam War Memorial, a list of names. I was very shaken to see all the names of soldiers who have lost theier lives defending South Korea.