Archive for January, 2009

Safe and snowy

18, Jan 2009

Did you hear about the plane crash on Thursday in New York?  We weren’t on that plane.  We were in the air on a 14 hour, uneventful movie marathon.  We arrived in Chicago on Thursday night.
Did you hear about the train crash yesterday in Chicago?  We weren’t on that train either.  Although we did take a [...]

Halli Galli Balli Balli

12, Jan 2009

Nothing big to report.  We had another nice weekend.  We hosted a German couchsurfer named Jessica on Thursday night, and then we hung with some English Village friends on Friday night who stayed at our house so we hung out most of Saturday too.  That night, Adam gave me a motorcycle refresher lesson because we’re [...]

Delivery pick-up

6, Jan 2009

Tonight we ordered sushi and soup delivery for dinner, neither of which was especially good, but they were cheap and convenient and pretty nourishing.  This reminded me of something I particularly appreciate about delivery in Korea.

The food was delivered on real non-disposable plates, in real non-disposable bowls, with real non-disposable spoons (alas, disposable chopsticks) [...]

A Cat’s Monologue

4, Jan 2009

Just a few days ago, I told you about our special friend Annie Cat, a teenage Korean girl that has been our good friend and personal window into Korean culture since almost the first month that we arrived.  You can see our previous blog for cute photos and more description.  We adopted the nickname Annie [...]

Around the world in under 2 days

3, Jan 2009

We have had a couple of extra days off for the New Year’s holiday, and we decided to do a little sightseeing again around Seoul.  After you live in a place for a while, you stop noticing cool new things, but this new year is a year of exploration for us Lofbomms!
Yesterday, we went to [...]

Happy 2009!

2, Jan 2009

We celebrated the coming of 2009 with our friends Matthew and Mary in downtown Seoul at Jonggak.  This is where we went for New Year’s Eve last year with my parents. There were far fewer fireworks this year, but there were other, equally perilous pyrotechnics. There were also a ton of people using the event [...]


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