Moving Day

Last night was our last night at the agency guesthouse.  For dinner we did a local Korean barbecue restaurant where they grill the meat right at your table.  Then you put all the ingredients together that they give you and you make these delicious BBQ pork lettuce wraps.  It was so good and we even got Auden to eat a few lettuce wraps without the spicy sauce:-).  Then we let Auden get a treat that we've been seeing around called "Cool Stix" where they fill this silly shaped cone with ice cream.

                     

After we packed the room up we wanted to take Auden to see the babies on the 3rd floor now that he is over his cold. You aren't allowed to take pictures but we snuck a few.  Auden thought the babies were sooooo adorable and did well playing with them.  He understands that Grant spent his first two months in the nursery and we were glad he was able to see it to help him understand more why Grant needs a family (and that Mrs. Moon is his not "tummy mommy").  

My friends Grace and Rich sent us with 3 stuffed monkeys from their new toy start up company that is a "buy one donate one to a child in need" concept and we already saw the monkeys in three of the older kids cribs.  Sorry, couldn't get a picture of that Grace, but they are being loved!

 

 

 

So then it was time to pack up and go to our new home away from home.  Although it was only a 15 minute van ride, we went from a part of the city where no one could speak English, we had no idea what we were eating and people would make a fuss over seeing a little Caucasian boy to a touristy part of the city in a high rise hotel where many people from all parts of the world stay and there  is English speaking people everywhere and an amazing burger joint across the street!  It was a whole new world. 

 

We unpacked our stuff, went to the supermarket nearby, went for a swim in the awesome pool, then made a home cooked meal in our kitchenette.  The supermarket, Lotte Mart, was an interesting experience to say the least.  I'm already not the biggest fan of grocery shopping, but add in not knowing what anything is, can't read the ingredients for dairy products, more crowds than I've ever experienced in a grocery store and guys with microphones and music in the meat section trying to lure you over to what they were selling = my personal hell, haha.  We did our best to get the ingredients for a few dinners at our place.  We still can't understand why after check-out there was a shipping section where people were furiously boxing up all the food they purchased and using packing tape to seal it all up...where were they sending to?  Either way, Cody cooked a delicious stir-fry dish for dinner and it felt great to eat at "home." 

 

Here are some pictures of our awesome extended stay hotel room.  It has a bedroom with a king bed and two bathrooms.  We are more than pleased and it feels like the Ritz compared to the agency guesthouse, ha.

 

Here is the living room that has a pull out sofa bed and dining/kitchenette/washing machine.   There is a view of a beautiful church outside our window.  The hotel also has a beautiful rooftop terrace you can bring food up to and eat at tables and a cute little playroom for kids.

 

 

 

 

 

Bedroom

 

 

 

 

 Every little boy's dream...a construction site to watch outside the window!

 

 

Time for dinner!