We slept pretty well last night and woke up at about 6 AM today. We should be right to normal as soon as it is time to leave. I couldn’t find the U.S. Open on the TV, so I spent part of my morning hitting refresh, refresh, refresh, on my laptop to update the leader board and see Tiger miss his putt on 18 to lose to Angel Cabrera. Not as fun as it sounds.
We got on the subway and made our journey over to Holt. We thought that we were supposed to meet at the reception center and guest house and while trying to find that we got lost. We found the place about 30 minutes later only to find out it was at the general building where we started our journey.
Anyway, we met with the social worker there for a little bit, Ms. You, Duck Jin. We then had an opportunity to meet Owen! That's right, we decided on a name. We got to meet with his foster parents, both mother and father. It was easy to see that he was well cared for. The father took a special interest in him. It is sure that he has come a long way from being born 3 months premature. We spent about an hour and a half with his foster parents and the social workers talking about him. The pictures are below are of us and Owen as well as pictures of his foster parents.
We received several gifts from them. We got framed pictures of his 100th day old which are very nice. We also got a big photo album of him and them at different stages in his early life. It was a great experience. We get to go on a city tour with another family from Michigan (we won’t hold that against them) tomorrow. We then get to go to a doctor’s visit at 3 PM on Thursday and pick him up on Friday. Our time here will soon be over. We hope to go to the DMZ on Wednesday. I guess no trips down to Kwangju or Ulsan to see their birth cities. We will have to save that for another time.
On our way home we visited the World Cup Stadium and the shops inside. We then stopped and had lunch at a local restaurant. What I had, some kind of meat, was pretty good. Cathy had kimchi and seafood which was quite spicy. It was also my first opportunity to taste the local brew. It was OK, kind of tasted like Pabst.
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