We're in Seoul

We arrived at the Holt Guesthouse in Seoul about 8:30pm local time (6:30 am in Gainesville, 25 hrs after we left the house!). It was a long flight from Atlanta. I dozed after take off and woke to see the Chicago skyline along Lake Michigan. We continued Northwest and the landscape became a blanket of white. Eventually, after crossing Canada and Alaska, we could see giant chunks of ice near the Arctic Ocean. We crossed through Siberia and south to the East Sea, between Korea and Japan. We flew over the Korean pennisula to the Inchon airport, on the Yellow Sea coast. The service on Korean air was excellent. The flight was not full, so on check in they reassigned our seats so we could have a row of three seats to ourselves. We ate bimbimbap and seaweed soup for lunch and chicken teriaki for dinner. There were also multiple snacks--even warm cookies!

On arrival, we took a city bus to the Hapjeong Subway station and walked the block or two to Holt. It was only 16,000 Won for both of us (about 16 dollars), but I don't think we could manage on a crowded bus with all our luggage AND a baby on the way bay. We'll have to splurge on a taxi. We got lost looking for the guesthouse in the dark, but a very nice man outside the main Holt office helped us. Good thing too, as the guesthouse door was locked and the doorman MIA. This nice man banged on the door until the doorman appeared. Our room is great. There is a double bed as well as a twin and the toasty "ondol" heated floor.

We had breakfast this morning at the Morning Tomato-incredible hot chocolate! Billy, the owner, speaks some English and we had a nice conversation with him. We told him we were from FL so he turned the heat up full blast--thought we were going to melt :)

We tried to find the Jeoldusan Martyr's shrine, but got lost. So we're back at the guesthouse getting ready for our meeting with Rowan and his foster family. Only an hour and a half to go!