Attention! Following our 16 week appointment, we have some exciting news! Justin and I are having a son!! I had to point and laugh at him during the appointment because he has been convinced the entire pregnancy that our child is a girl.
Initial feelings are terror! I know nothing about little boys! But I am pretty sure my husband knows a few things about boys so I think we might be ok. Now I am just getting very excited about celebrating the impending arrival of our little baby boy, who we have decided to name Lucas :)
Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Halloween Extravaganza 2011
Halloween this year was pretty awesome despite living in a country that does not really celebrate it. We kicked off Halloween weekend by going to the First Alleyway's Trick or Taco night. We invited Jason and Emily to come with us and it was a delicious, awesome night. We did not go in costumes but our friend Tony who works the bar upstairs definitely did and I managed to get a pretty good picture of it:
his make up is awesome because I happen to be a huge of Mr. Jack Skellington. :) The special for the night was two tacos and a draft beer. Since I am currently unable to imbibe alcohol at the moment, Tony was nice enough to accommodate me with a Shirley Temple :D We also ordered poutine and chips and salsa. For those of my friends who do not know, poutine is french fries covered in brown gravy and topped with mozzarella cheese. In other words, it is amazing!
After dinner we went on a walk downtown in search of a Tom and Toms cafe because they have great pretzels. On our trip we found a Korean dressed like Santa for Halloween selling fried potatoes:
I can't explain why Justin looks so disgusted but it is the best photo-bomb I have ever seen, lol. We found Tom and Toms and enjoyed some Cinnamon sugar pretzels with Caramel sauce and I had a hocho. It was an amazing dessert and even more amazing is this awesome picture a Korean dude let us take of him. His outfit was just too amazing to not photograph. Thanks so much Emily for having the guts to take my camera and get the picture!
We got home and surprised Gorbachev with a Halloween costume: Pikachu. Unfortunately it was too small so we could only make him wear it long enough for pictures!
The next day we watched Cloverfield with Jason and Emily in the evening and were surprised with plastic Jack-o-Lanterns full of treats! On the actual date of Halloween, Justin and I enjoyed Caramel Apple Pie Cupcakes, The Walking Dead, and Friday the 13th. I had never seen Friday the 13th before and when Jason jumped out of the water at the end I literally jumped n the air and screamed my head off. I am sure our neighbors loved that at 2 in the morning! Now we are just focusing on getting everything ready Thanksgiving which should an amazingly awesome day with a lot of the comforting foods we remember so fondly from home!
his make up is awesome because I happen to be a huge of Mr. Jack Skellington. :) The special for the night was two tacos and a draft beer. Since I am currently unable to imbibe alcohol at the moment, Tony was nice enough to accommodate me with a Shirley Temple :D We also ordered poutine and chips and salsa. For those of my friends who do not know, poutine is french fries covered in brown gravy and topped with mozzarella cheese. In other words, it is amazing!
After dinner we went on a walk downtown in search of a Tom and Toms cafe because they have great pretzels. On our trip we found a Korean dressed like Santa for Halloween selling fried potatoes:
I can't explain why Justin looks so disgusted but it is the best photo-bomb I have ever seen, lol. We found Tom and Toms and enjoyed some Cinnamon sugar pretzels with Caramel sauce and I had a hocho. It was an amazing dessert and even more amazing is this awesome picture a Korean dude let us take of him. His outfit was just too amazing to not photograph. Thanks so much Emily for having the guts to take my camera and get the picture!
We got home and surprised Gorbachev with a Halloween costume: Pikachu. Unfortunately it was too small so we could only make him wear it long enough for pictures!
The next day we watched Cloverfield with Jason and Emily in the evening and were surprised with plastic Jack-o-Lanterns full of treats! On the actual date of Halloween, Justin and I enjoyed Caramel Apple Pie Cupcakes, The Walking Dead, and Friday the 13th. I had never seen Friday the 13th before and when Jason jumped out of the water at the end I literally jumped n the air and screamed my head off. I am sure our neighbors loved that at 2 in the morning! Now we are just focusing on getting everything ready Thanksgiving which should an amazingly awesome day with a lot of the comforting foods we remember so fondly from home!
Gwangju International Community Day/Halloween
The holidays have been fast approaching and trying to decide how we will celebrate them in Korea has been a fun process so far. Halloween weekend kicked off the season in a great way beginning with a delicious trip around the world.
The foreigners of Gwangju are lucky enough to enjoy a center that is dedicated to the international community here. One of the activities sponsored by this organization is the International Community Day. It is mostly a food festival that also showcases talents from the many countries represented. We were also participating in the festivities by donating three sample sets of cupcakes to the Sungbin booth for a raffle. It was really being involved but even more fun eating all the amazing food..
Once we dropped off the cupcakes I was starving (because I am pregnant, so I am starving all the time) and we set off in search for food. It was so hard to choose, but since I am pregnant and have a neverending appetite, a food festival is heaven for me because I can just eat all day! We started with Kenya. I recently had Ethiopian food while in Germany and was eager to try more African food. We had Githeri (a sort of beef stew) and a flat bread that came with it. It was by far the tastiest country of the day!
By the time we were ordering our food it was time for our friends, Jason and Emily, to perform on the talent stage so we hopped on over to watch/hold their camera steady for them during their performance. I enjoyed a personal shout out in a song that should probably win award for most awkward mention in a song: not wanting to go the sauna because you have to be naked lol.
After their performance we hung out for a bit and I decided it was time to see the world. After traveling to Kenya, we went to Japan for some kebabs. I have already forgotten what it was called but it was delicious. Ironically, the line for Japan was very long and full of Koreans. (They don't really like each other much on account of the occupations and such) After Japan, we went to "Canada" which really represented the U.S. as well :) We did not eat anything because we can get that stuff all the time at the First Alleyway :D After that we watched a kid totally eat it playing on some stepping stones in a fountain, which was really awesome. Then we traveled to Spain for some paella, Malaysia for a giant pile of the world's spiciest food. It was rice, chicken curry, some kind of chili, an egg, something with coconut, and a few other things. I could only take a bite because my body cannot tolerate things that spicy these days. We ended our food experience with India by enjoying some Biryani and curry.
The end of the day for us was celebrated with the coolest drum performance I have seen in Korea, and that is saying something because they are usually awesome. These people had so much swagger and confidence which is unique here. They also set their drum sticks on fire while playing and played a track of metal guitar in the background. It was the closet to metal music Justin has gotten since he got here so he was a very happy camper.
We decided at the end of the performance we were satisfied with the day and went home to get ready for a night of Halloween shenanigans with Jason and Emily. It turned out to be an awesome day :)
The foreigners of Gwangju are lucky enough to enjoy a center that is dedicated to the international community here. One of the activities sponsored by this organization is the International Community Day. It is mostly a food festival that also showcases talents from the many countries represented. We were also participating in the festivities by donating three sample sets of cupcakes to the Sungbin booth for a raffle. It was really being involved but even more fun eating all the amazing food..
Once we dropped off the cupcakes I was starving (because I am pregnant, so I am starving all the time) and we set off in search for food. It was so hard to choose, but since I am pregnant and have a neverending appetite, a food festival is heaven for me because I can just eat all day! We started with Kenya. I recently had Ethiopian food while in Germany and was eager to try more African food. We had Githeri (a sort of beef stew) and a flat bread that came with it. It was by far the tastiest country of the day!
By the time we were ordering our food it was time for our friends, Jason and Emily, to perform on the talent stage so we hopped on over to watch/hold their camera steady for them during their performance. I enjoyed a personal shout out in a song that should probably win award for most awkward mention in a song: not wanting to go the sauna because you have to be naked lol.
After their performance we hung out for a bit and I decided it was time to see the world. After traveling to Kenya, we went to Japan for some kebabs. I have already forgotten what it was called but it was delicious. Ironically, the line for Japan was very long and full of Koreans. (They don't really like each other much on account of the occupations and such) After Japan, we went to "Canada" which really represented the U.S. as well :) We did not eat anything because we can get that stuff all the time at the First Alleyway :D After that we watched a kid totally eat it playing on some stepping stones in a fountain, which was really awesome. Then we traveled to Spain for some paella, Malaysia for a giant pile of the world's spiciest food. It was rice, chicken curry, some kind of chili, an egg, something with coconut, and a few other things. I could only take a bite because my body cannot tolerate things that spicy these days. We ended our food experience with India by enjoying some Biryani and curry.
The end of the day for us was celebrated with the coolest drum performance I have seen in Korea, and that is saying something because they are usually awesome. These people had so much swagger and confidence which is unique here. They also set their drum sticks on fire while playing and played a track of metal guitar in the background. It was the closet to metal music Justin has gotten since he got here so he was a very happy camper.
We decided at the end of the performance we were satisfied with the day and went home to get ready for a night of Halloween shenanigans with Jason and Emily. It turned out to be an awesome day :)
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