We've been traveling 6 hours, about 1/2 way there. I am writing this post and hoping to post it on the blog when we get to Korea and have some WiFi service. The kids are doing well - loving the individual entertainment centers on the seatbacks in front of them. Games, movies, music. Lunch was bibimbop and seaweed soup--very yummy. It smelled and tasted like Korea on the plane! Now after 6 hours, it's easy to forget where we are going!
Jaden took pictures on his ipod of the Alaskan snow topped mountains. Beautiful! He is sitting by the window. Claire is across the aisle sitting next to a nice halmoni (Korean grandmother) who is helping her when she needs it - putting her blanket on her completely, opening her rice. Kind of like when we traveled home with her at 4 months old, and when she cried, many of the Korean passengers offered to hold her. Same thing with Jaden.
Getting on the plane I was struck emotionally of what we are doing and our last time(s) flying on Korean Air and what it meant to us - beginning and expanding our family. So glad we made this decision to go back and explore the country with the kids. We are ready for an emotional and life changing trip. And exhausting too - a very full schedule. Jim slept for a while, but the rest of us haven't and I keep telling the kids to nap! The teenagers with us are having no problem sleeping - a lot!
We are on the plane with many other families who are taking the trip with us -- 5 that we know and are friends with. We took a chartered bus from one family's home in New Berlin - we all met there at 7:00 a.m. and brought breakfast items to munch on on the way to O'Hare. We are enjoying spending time traveling with the others and all the people we know will be on the same bus (the yellow bus) as we travel about the country.
One of the guys (who is on our tour but we just met at the airport - he's from Beloit and 26 and traveling alone) realized he had forgotten his passport :( He had to take a bus back home and get it, and will be taking a flight tomorrow. We all felt bad for him but will see him when he gets to Korea. There are other families on the plane that we haven't met formally yet, but they all are wearing the yellow name badges with Korean Ties on it, so we say hi and look forward to meeting the when on the ground in the Land of the Morning Calm.
When we get to Incheon airport in Incheon South Korea at about 4:30 p.m. Monday (it's currently 7:28 p.m. in WI as I write this) we'll get picked up and driven the hour or so to Seoul and our hotel to get settled in. If there are more than 3 people in a group, you need to get 2 hotel rooms - so Claire and I will share and Jim and Jaden in the other room.
Ok, now I'll try to get some sleep and pass the last 6 hours or so that is left.
Glad you are safe and all is well. Love you all!!!
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