It's been a long time, but I feel the need to document this adventure that we are on! In case you didn't know we are now living in South Korea! My last post had us living in a Germany, but we have moved a couple of times since then. After Germany, we spent two years in Louisiana, two years in Texas and about 11 months in Rhode Island. In a perfect world, I would upload all the photos from our many adventures during that time. But, for now I am going to try to stay up to date on this grand adventure.
We arrived in South Korea at the end of June after many hours of traveling and have been trying our best to get settled and start our new normal. At the moment, all three kids are in school and finding friends and activities to keep them busy. I am trying to get myself settled and plan all our new adventures!
For as long and stressful as the journey was, the kids did great! The oldest two are pros at traveling and navigating airports and the TSA. The baby (who is not a baby anymore) travels like a rock star.
We arrived in Boston for our flight to Seattle with 14 bags to check, 1 gate check bag, 5 carry-ons, and 5 backpacks! We checked in and made it through security in record time. Our flight to Seattle was great, but once we landed all the 'hurry up and wait' fun began.
We had over 12 hours before we could recheck our luggage, so we tried to hang out at the USO for while, but is was crazy busy and someone likes to be early, so we ended up floor camping near the area we would be checking in at.
About 19 hours (thanks to few delays) after landing in Seattle we took off for South Korea.
About 45 minutes into the flight we were told we would be returning to Seattle due to mechanical issues.
We spent the next two hours burning off fuel before we could land.
After landing we were told our flight would not be departing till tomorrow and in this day
and age it means that we had to re-do our Covid 19 testing.
We got in line to do in at the airport, but an employees at the site told us they not be able to get us all tested (150 people) before they closed for the day. We took an Uber to a testing site and finally made it it to our hotel at about 8pm. We grabbed a quick meal and got a few hours of sleep (2 hours), before we had to get up and start the 'hurry up and wait' all over again.
This time we were green to go!
Happy to be on a plane and on our way to South Korea
This little guy slept almost the whole flight! He was awake for maybe an hour on the first part
and after a quick layover in Japan he went to back to sleep for the next two hours of our flight.
The older two played video games, read, ate and slept their way to South Korea. I didn't hear anything from them during the flight. The husband did some sleeping, eating and watching TV and for me I didn't do much of anything. I cannot sleep on flights when I have my family with me, so I did a lot of people watching on the plane.
After landing in SK we had more 'hurry up and wait' before picking up all of our luggage and taking a bus to new location. After arriving there we had to do more paperwork and another Covid test before arriving
at our new to us home. The Hubby's new coworkers were amazing and made sure we had a home to go to instead living in the hotel for a while. They also had our loaner furniture delivered and even put some basic groceries in the house for us. We all quickly passed out from exhaustion. After reading all that, here is the quick version of our journey to South Korea.
We left RI on 6/25 at 6am to head to the airport in Boston and finally go to our new house on 6/28 at around 8pm. It was a long and exhausting trip, but we are all excited for this new adventure!
I am going to try my best to update this blog often, because I really enjoy looking back at the pictures. It really is my version of a scrapbook for the kids.
