We got up this morning and just wasted some time watching the Air Force Network. We get to see an hour of Good Morning America and then some shows like The View and Dr. Phil. Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune come on later in the day as do some other normal U.S. shows.
We went to the Insadong Market to buy some gifts for a couple more people. For the record, I know that some of you who read this will be getting a gift, but I always fail to budget into our trip the enormous amount of time or money involved in shopping for every single person. I wonder when that became a social or cultural norm and who started it anyway.
We went to Starbucks for a while to kill some time and then on our way back we bought some flowers for Owen’s foster mother and her daughter. Cathy bought some bananas because she wanted them I guess and all we could get was a dozen. I don’t know how we are going to eat 12 bananas in the next half of day, but we will see.
We got to Holt and waited for a while in their nursery for a social worker. Our social worker wasn’t there today because it was her daughter’s birthday. We waited for a while because, from what we could gather, there was another family there to pick up there daughter but they couldn’t because she had to be hospitalized overnight with a fever. It looked like they planned on leaving tomorrow. That would NOT have been a good thing.
We then went through the process of signing the one paper (that is right, one) that we needed to and then the handoff of Owen. It was quite an emotional experience. It kind of felt like taking someone else’s child. They had grown very attached to him and they said earlier that he was their favorite of the 12 they had had. The father and daughter especially took an interest in him. We then hopped in a taxi and arrived at our hotel. Owen cried some of the way to the hotel and then fell asleep. He isn’t real happy at the moment, but who can blame him. We look and smell a little different I would imagine. We were spoiled with Liam as he was happy from minute one.
We are being picked up at 7 AM tomorrow morning for our long journey home via Tokyo and Minneapolis. I think we just plan on hanging around here tonight as his foster mother said his bedtime was around 10 PM.
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