Hong Kong Pictures are up!

The Hong Kong pictures are up on photobucket. There is a seperate album titled Hong Kong (go figure right?) You can find it on the left hand side of the page. Enjoy :)

Made it home from Hong Kong

Marie and I made it home from Hong Kong just fine last night. We really loved it and had tons of fun. We got to see a lot of cool stuff like a GIANT Buddha and New Years fire works (totally blew any fireworks from home away!!) We also got to take a tram that went up and down a mountain at a 45 degree angle. We also rode a cable car through some mountains as well. Got to go to Macau (a whole other country that is tiny and covered with casinos. It is vegas as it's own country lol) So that was cool to get 2 new country stamps on our passports whithin a couple days. We also got to see a Cirque, which was amazing!!! We also gambled a little on the slot machines and came out $10 ahead :)

Big Buddha

Fire Works (in case you can't tell or something)

Not to much to report

Things have kind of been boring everyday life for us lately. We did meet and girl from Idaho that worked for my dad is his candy shop. She is a young girl here in the Air Force. She wa nice. Marie was excited becuase she has someone to go shopping with, apparently i suck at it lol. We all went out and celebrated a korean friend's birthday. That was fun, we got to eat Morrocan food and then go dancing. Other than that not to much excitment. We did attempt to go ice skating at the mall, but when we got there, it was EXTREMELY packed with people. There were so many people on the rink that the only ice you could see was in the middle of the rink where a learn to skate class was in progress. We have a couple pictures of this, but the camera is dead so they are not on the internet yet. We do leave for Hong Kong in 2 days, which is cool. We will definatly take alot of pictures and blog about what we see when we get back. Hope all is well for you all. We miss everyone like crazy!

Dancing to Barney!

Ok, so when we tell people that we are singing and dancing for children, we really mean it. Our school recorded Marie and I singing and dancing to our new warm up song that we sing at the begining of every class. We go to choose a new song becuase the center had been using a song called Hello World for the last year. So I looked around online and found The Clapping Song on the Barney website. The director and head teacher of the center liked the song so they said that we could use it. Well Marie and I were put in charge of coming up with a dance for the song that was fun and easy enough for the kids to do. Well i can not post the video on here becuase our school has rights to it and what not, but i will put the link up. But... before you view the video, you have to promise that you will laugh your butts off. And you might want to go ahead and learn the song becuase we will be teaching all the songs we know when we get home!

The link is: http://www.jybooks.com/center/kangnam/board_view.asp?BoardID=CMNKFree&idx=103348&gotoPage=1&strPart=&strFind=

but, you have to be a member, so here is my login and password, but if you get onto the site, please don't be an ass and screw around on things, this is our company's official site and you have to be a member to get into anything (mostly this is for my (Keith's) friends, becuase i know that i would be tempted to poke around too) Thanks guys and enjoy!

Login: keith
password: 1111

Acupuncture ....no idea if this is spelled correctly

I've been getting headaches and my back has been very tight and stiff, so this week Keith convinced me to try something new. ( I've been getting tired of trying new things recently). Acupuncture. Turns out I LOVE IT. In Korea acupunture refered to as the Chinese Doctor. Acupunture has all the pleasant effects of a ciropractor except with a lot more massage and a lot more lying under warm blankets taking a nap while I'm suppose to be at work :)There is a acupunturist right down the street from our school. He is a cute little man who speaks very little English, but likes to pretend that he doesn't know any English. But he could say "no problam?" and "If pain say "ah"" At first I couldn't understand the "If pain" part of the direction. All I heard was "jashdkjah say 'ah.'" So I said "ah" everytime he said "askhdkashd say 'ah.'" Which of course got very confusing, and I'm pretty sure he thought I was crazy, but we finally got it figured out.

Of course there was the needle part of the acupunture. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought. Since he was working on my neck I didn't even realize he had put any needles in until he put one in each of my temples. I guess he didn't know how to say "needle in your head now." Anyway I feel better and spent less than 5 dollars for something that would have cost me ten times as much in the states.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone! Hope that 2009 is a generous year for everyone. We went out and celebrated with the hundreds of people on the streets of Seoul to see the count down and hear the traditional ringing of the bell. The only way i can describe the streets is "mosh pit"! There were so many people on the steets the we could not move. The entire croud would sway one way or another becuase people were trying to push their way through, and the only way to do that was to literally push about twenty peopl at one time. It was really amusing to see soooo many people hudled together to see the countdown (either that or we were all huddled together to keep warm lol) It was FREEZING cold out side! Korean's celebrate with "fireworks" that are really just roman candles held by thousands of people in the street shooting them into the air. There were tons of police officers out on the street to keep peace as well. We hung out around the fire works for a while and then went out to get a few drinks. We made our way to a bar the had tequilla shots for 1,500 won, which is about $1.30 maybe. Marie and I had one and we were in good shape :). Then after another beer, we made our way home to finally get under a thousand and one blankets to get warm. :) That was how we celebrated New Years this year. Happy New Years to ALL!!!! Enjoy 2009!

p.s. If you are reading this before i have posted pictures here... then check the blog again in a day or two. I will have the pictures up by then