Christmas came and went...

...and now it's New Years Ever?!

Wow, time is flying !

I guess this must be what it's like to work during the Christmas Holiday. Svein and I had about 2-3 days off from school (including the weekend) for Christmas and those few days flew by! We celebrated Christmas morning with traditional Stocking and Christmas Tree gifts.

Then we decided to head out for a verrrry cold and windy run - even though we would much rather have stayed in the warm apartment. But, tradition is tradition!
We prepared an awesome Christmas dinner, sans turkey, which at first seemed kind of intimidating! We don't have a proper oven and we have very limited kitchen space so making a Christmas dinner was somewhat challenging!

Needless to say, we were able to produce some damn good stuffing (a la frying pan), mashed potatoes, garlic bread, veggies, roasted chicken and dessert!

Svein's friend Matt, from back home in New Brunswick, joined in our Christmas dinner celebration!

We'd like to thank everyone for all of their wonderful Christmas wishes, notes and gifts! It was so nice to hear from everyone during the holidays! Christmas isn't the same without you all so it was so great to hear from you! Love to you all! xoxo

It's been awhile...

... but does anyone notice? We're not really sure how many blog followers we have out there, so to those of you who are reading, we apologize for our absence.  :)

We are getting really excited for Christmas! We recently went out on a Christmas tree digging excursion to find the perfect 'live" tree! We had to go out at night as to avoid the gawking koreans and we ended up pulling out a beautiful little charlie brown tree (... it is somewhat crooked and not very evergreen-like, but it's perfect!).

We are also looking forward to our Thailand/Cambodia vacation in January/February! We are planning to spend a few days in Bangkok, then heading to Cambodia (Siem Reap) to explore the Angkor Temples for a few days.  After that, we are planning to spend our last week in Southern Thailand, exploring national parks, doing some hiking, snorkeling, beach bumming and island exploring via motorbike.

We actually have another vacation at the end of February, so we are thinking of heading to either Indonesia or Phillipines....or Japan. Who knows. It really all depends on the flight prices at this point.

Back here in the dong, we have been getting ready for our Winter Camps at our schools. My good friend Matt Goss from out east has also made his way to Korea, so it's great to have a friend close by. Literally, he's a 5 minute walk from us.

All for now! I should go back to drinking my Soju and eating my rice cakes. Yum!

~Svein.