Today was our first day back at work after a really nice weeklong vacation. One thing cool about going back to work was realizing I was glad to see my coworkers. It made me realize again that I work with some really cool people. My students were well behaved to boot.

I ran into Julia on the 4th floor, which doesn’t usually happen since kinder is located on the 2nd, and everything she needs is either on her floor or below. She looked a bit concerned so I suspected something was not right. She told me that Quinn took a header face first on the ground. He has started running everywhere and scoots around at a good clip. I don’t think the rest of his reflexes have caught up with his new found foot speed. Anyway he was zipping along and next thing you know he was spread eagle on the floor and had used his face to break his fall. Like they say, like father like son; the only difference is that he wasn’t on a bike. He knocked a tooth loose, busted his lip, and scared the poop out of himself. He was bummed that he might loose a tooth that he actually just got in the last week.

The nursery ladies were beside themselves. They rushed him to the school nurse who immediately made an appointment at the dentist’s office. Julia took the afternoon off and went with him to the dentist’s office since Q didn’t bring his wallet and probably couldn’t pay for it himself. The dentist looked at it and said it was fine and would either fix it self or die and fall out. The appointment costs a whopping 10 bucks.

During our break the upstairs neighbors and we split a sitter and went into town to an area called Itaewon. Itaewon is an area near one of the military bases just north of the river. When it was built I’m sure it was outside of town but now has been swallowed by a booming metropolis. The area has a ton of great shopping (read cheap) and a good selection of western style restaurants and bars. We found some cool wall hangings for the apartment as well as neat toy for Q. It even has shops that specialize in “plus” sizes, which in addition to large girthed can also mean tall. We had a really good burger and fries and cruised about the shops for a couple hours. Here are our friends Brian and Gisella.





We hopped a bus back to our area and took it a couple more stops than where we got on to see where it went. It dropped us off and we waited for a cab. It seemed that all the cabs were avoiding this area for some reason so we jumped back on a bus and rode it a bit further. We got off up the road a bit and tried again but were unsuccessful in finding a cab. We could see our apartment off in the distance so we just decided to hoof it. It was actually not that bad of a walk. It probably took between 20-30 minutes.

This past Saturday Q went to his friend’s B-day party. The party was actually for his friend’s older sister but he didn’t mind. He got the B-day girl a sweet bubble gun that shot bubbles and flashed bright colors. It was a big hit.

Yesterday we bought Julia a bike at our neighborhood shop. It is a sweet Raleigh. Now we can ride to work if we want, get the groceries, ride up to visit friends, or just tool around and enjoy the nice weather. I’ll get some pics of J riding her new bike up soon.


I think some bungee jumping might be in the near future stay tuned.