Sunday, June 17, 2007

Sunday

Sunday, June 17, 2007 – Seoul
We slept a little better last night. Jet lag seems to be going away. It makes me wonder how Liam didn’t show any signs of it when we got him. By the way, happy Father’s Day to our dads. My computer tells me it is 2:45 AM on Sunday, so nobody is awake right now.

We got up this morning and decided to try and make a test trip to Holt Children’s Services so that we know how to get there tomorrow. We didn’t do to bad of a job walking about 30 minutes and then taking the subway to where Holt is. It shouldn’t be to difficult tomorrow.

We then decided to take a 3 km walking tour from our tour book. It probably turned into a 10 km trip, but it was fun. Our first stop was the Seoul Art Museum where we saw a Monet exhibit that was visiting. It was amazing to see that they didn’t have many pictures. I think that the Milwaukee Art Museum has more Monet’s. I know that Chicago definitely has spoiled us. We then walked around, got lost and then got lost again. We found our way around to the old palace of King Sejong. We saw the changing of the guard in front of the palace gates and then walked back to our hotel. We took a detour through a huge market that reminded me of the Grand Bazaar in Instanbul. It was a pretty crowded and crazy place. Nevertheless, an interesting day.


We are now back in our hotel and I think we are just going to hang out for the night. There is a lot of English TV on since there is an Air Force base nearby. We may go out and try to find something to eat. Tomorrow we need to be at Holt at 11 AM to meet the little guy, who will hopefully then have a name. I hope to get some pictures posted following that.

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