Xmas

Yay, books
These pressies are great

Yip, I'm still holding my books

half the fun is ripping the paper

Wow, I didn't know I'd get so many presents

Oupa watching the present opening

Gotta try my new gear on

Gayle got the best present of the day

Jaylen's garage

All that present opening gets tiring

Bonjour from the kitchen

Getting our food ready

Yay, lunch time

Cousins at play

Hard at play

We even have our own little house

Jaylen playing some music

Peek-a-boo
Brandon figuring out how the house works


You stay in there


Teehee, I knew he was going to follow me


Finally, I caught up with my cuz

Visiting Gogo in Cooroy

We flew into Brisbabe after a few days in Melbourne. It was very exciting for Brandon to see his Gogo for the first time. On our first day there we took Brandon to the Nursing Home that Gayle and Rob work at. He got lots of attention from all sorts of people and, of course, he really enjoyed it.

Brandon had just toppled over

Playing in the flower box

Melbourne - Dec09

We had a great time in Melboune with Jacqui. Jacques and Jaylen. It was especially nice meeting our nephew for the first time and Brandon was fascinated with Jaylen. Here are some pics from our time there.

Hanging out in the lounge, while the cousins play
Aunty Jacqui feeding little B while Jaylen watches

You can definitley see the family resemblance between Uncle and nephew in this photo

Bubbles

We did some Xmas shopping in the city one day; we were in awe of how easy it is to shop and the relatively cheap variety. Korea's really made us miss big shops like Target where you can get such a variety of things in one go. Much to Brad's delight we found a Nando's to have lunch (yes, Nando's exists in Australia), we sat outdoors along the riverfront. When Brandon needed a nappy change we found a beautiful patch of grass, Brandon loved being on the grass and was on top form - he practised his talking and walking and just enjoyed the outdoors.

This is the life

Hehe, I got the phone

No mom, you can't have it back.

You change my nappy and I'll make some calls.

On second thoughts, maybe I'll just text someone instead.

Check out that bird, dad!

Do you think I can walk to it?

Nap time!

We went to a really good restaurant one lunch time - the fish was excellent and they put up with all the mess the two little ones made.

Our meal

A relaxing lunch

We mentioned to Jacqui that we would like to take Brandon to a petting zoo/farmyard because he doesn't get much exposure to that kind of stuff in Korea. One day we went to a farm and let the kids look at all the animals, Brandon absolutely loved it. There were horses, pigs, chickens, goats and a few other things, Brandon giggled a chatted the entire time and we could tell that he was really fascinated by the animals (unfortunaltely we didn't take the camera). So on another day we went to one of the markets in town where they bring in some farmyard animals for the kids to see. Once again, Brandon was delighted.

Petting a goat

Feeding a goat

Brandon was a bit skeptical about the chicken

Petting the calf

All in all we had a fab time and wish we'd taken more photos.

Back in Seoul

We arrived back in Seoul on Sunday night, the 3rd January. Quite different weather from Australia. The weather in Australia was excellent, late twenties to early thirties, in Seoul it was way below zero.

We arrived late in the evening, so almost immediately went to bed. When we woke up in the morning, it had been snowing heavily and was still snowing. Turned out to be the most snow Seoul has seen in over 100 years, nearly 30cm of snow.

Carla was supposed to go and get Storm from the kennel and I was meant to get a taxi to work, but that didn't work out. No taxi's were running and with that much snow the roads were so slippery. After walking down the road trying to catch a taxi and slipping in the snow on the way, I came back home and decided I didn't want Carla to go driving in that weather.

I eventually went to get Storm, which wasn't so bad for me as my car has 4wd, so I could drive quite well, but the rest of the people and the roads were a nightmare.

The rest of the week didn't snow, it just got colder. the temperatures were -14c and thenwith the wind chill, made this much lower. Our heating in the house also turned off. Seems to happen every year just as we get a cold snap, so for two days we didn't have heating...