Winter....

After our winter trips we had 2 months of "normal life". Winter in Korea tends to be very cold and grey and bleak. But we did have a few fun events that helped us get through the brunt of the season.

We missed St. Andrew's Night this year and celebrated Burns Night instead. It was fun although the dancing was the best part and unfortunately also the shortest part of it. Next year we need more dancing!

In February I turned 40 and Jeff and the Gang threw me an awesome surprise party! It was a ton of fun and I got a Goofy cake to spur me on to my next big goal!

 The guys wore Mickey ears and the gals all got Tiaras at my party. Teddy wasted no time in setting Mitzio up with a tiara as well when we got home. She seemed to kind of like it and man oh man it pretty much completes her whole personality.

The kids got very excited to run a 5K with me. We put a sticker chart on the fridge and everything. I was stoked! Until they bailed on me after only 2 training runs. I handed out sport beans and everything! Maybe next year....

 Max is continuing to put on weight and is doing absolutely great. He seems to be totally back to normal. Of course now I'm totally stressed about leaving him again this summer lest he immediately go into organ shut-down mode again. What a high-maintenance cat!

 And..... we built a volcano! It has a plastic chamber in the middle so you can do various types of eruptions with it. We tried the baking soda and vinegar eruption and it was pretty cool. Next we have to try Menthos and Coke. Think we'll do that one outside though...

Sasha had a little fiddle performance at school so I came to assembly and as luck would have it she was also chosen as star of the week! What a day!

 For St. Paddy's Day our little Celtic band was asked to play at the clubhouse. Our first gig!! We were very excited and had an absolute blast. We even got a new band member, Ian who plays melodian and mandolin. We proudly call ourselves the best Celtic Band in Ulsan S. Korea and let me tell you, on St. Paddy's day we're in HIGH demand. We even had offers for multiple gigs!

 We remained loyal to our clubhouse though. And the community gave us quite a turn out! We had some awesome dancers. Video HERE.

And last but not least, Jeff and Pero have been getting themselves through the last of the mid-winter jickers by building bottle-rockets. Really. And it's non-stop. My hair elastics have been cut up and used for gaskets, there are toys missing that have been pillaged for their moving parts and at one point my favorite cutting board was stolen. (I got it back though...) They assure me that this is all for the kids....