So far I have been very terrible at keeping up with this blog! I have made it safely to Korea, am married, have been on my honeymoon, and have made it through my first week and a half in Korea successfully!
the flight was long and the first weekend here was a busy one. I landed, met justin at the airport the next morning, had a girls night with Crystal, and then Sunday was my wedding day!! Crystal was fantastic. She helped me get ready, did my hair, took photographs for me and then we got on the subway to head to the palace. It was a short ceremony but a really beautiful one and I cried like a baby almost the whole time. It was 15 degrees out that day so after a break in the warm coffee shop we ventured outside for pictures which can be found here:
Our honeymoon was fantastic but we forgot Crystal had the camera for the ceremony so we have no pictures from all the awesome stuff we did. Our hotel was just as amazing at it looked and we did not want to ever leave! We went to an amazing aquarium with a shark tunnel and all sorts of awesome exhibits. We shopped a lot. We went to Hanok Village to watch the Lunar New Year festivities which might have been my favorite thing after the aquarium. They had drummers and you could make your own kites. There was a game where you throw an arrow into a tall thin vase and I totally made it in! It was a lot of fun but it was good to go home to get settled into my new place.
A nice surprise was a taco party celebrating our marriage the Sunday after we got back. The other couples cooked us awesome tacos and got us a lot of really wonderful gifts. I got a matching apron and oven mit, we got wine glasses, dish towels, wooden utensils, candles, soap, and cake. It was so nice and we have gotten good use out of our gifts so far!
Gwangju is pretty awesome. I think I have taken to Korea pretty well and so far I love living here. Married life is wonderful and I have found myself on several occasions thinking is this really happening? I just feel so blessed right now. We have a lot to be thankful for right now and I am going to try to never take him for granted. I have been reorganizing and cleaning and decorating and the apartment is really starting to feel like a home and last night I got to cook dinner for the other couples because we hosted Bible Study at our place. I got to wear my awesome apron that the other couples got me but the spaghetti turned out very spicy somehow. They said they liked it but it was too spicy for me!
All in all it has been an easy transition for me. I feel like I am exactly where I am supposed to be and I am so excited to see what God has in store for us this year. :-)
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