Day by Day with Gina

Chillin' Like Korean Villains

UPDATE FROM SOUTH KOREA
Monday, December 26, 2005

Happy day after Christmas! We spent the morning calling family, since it was still Christmas evening over in ol' Atl. Britt and Ben went downstairs for the men's Band of Brothers all-day marathon in the Hospitality House. Becca, Micah, and I hung out in the apartment for most of the day. We had some fun visitors like Laura Beth and Hannah (the little Christmas tree from my last post), and Jenn hung out with us a lot since Butch was enjoying the marathon downstairs. Becca and Jenn went downtown to run some errands, and I stayed home and baked some cookies while entertaining the boy. I haven't made peanut butter or chocolate chip cookies in awhile, but they were successful adventures. Apparently everyone else thought so, too, because it's only been two days, and they are all gone!!1l!

We closed out the evening with, you guessed it: Arrested Development.

Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Britt and I went to work out in the morning, then we came back to the apartment to get ready and go to Incheon to get Shane and Jason! We took the bus into the city and saw some interesting buildings and bridges on the way in. The apartment buildings reminded me of condo buildings at the beach, just more of them, closer together, and in the cold instead of the heat. The bus itself was extremely uncomfortable. It was literally over 80 degrees on that bus the whole way. I thought I was going to hurl. But at least we got some good pictures!
We picked up a very tired Shane and Jason, got McDonald's at the airport, and got back on the bus toward Songtan. It's at least a two-hour ride one way, so we had plenty of time to eat our McDonald's and catch up. The temperature on the way home was much better, actually on the cooler side. But, our bus driver must have been a kamikaze. He drove like a maniac! We almost hit some pedestrians a couple of times, and in Korea, that's a really big deal. This girl across the aisle from me actually threw up during the trip. We all agreed that our bus driver was certifiably crazy.
Becca picked us up at the bus station and we squeezed two more adults into Britt and Becca's apartment. We also squeezed two more episodes of Arrested Development in before we all crashed!!! Shane and Jason did well staying up late and sleeping through the night.

Okay, so now, time for what I promised and for what you probably came looking for: Micah's hair adventures. This is probably one of those embarrassing things moms will show future girlfriends in baby books, but it is a reality nonetheless: Micah has a mullet.

He has rubbed off all of the hair from the back of his head, so he's left with a smidgen of hair on the top and front, and a thick-ish row of hair on the neck. It's really funny- we all laugh about it pretty hard. When we laugh, Micah laughs, too, so I guess he's okay with it. Britt wants to trim, the "party in the back" section, but Becca hasn't seen the light yet. Well, on Christmas morning, Britt decided to experiment and see what Micah would look like with other kinds of hairstyles. Becca donated her hair to help us with the demonstrations.

So, there you have it. Now you know something really personal about my nephew.

Up next...Korean bathroom adventures!!!

posted by Gina @ 7:45 PM