Archive for December, 2009

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Mandatory Fun Day

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [humor me - play the music] But first an explanation… It’s a concept brainstormed by the higher brass – the main purpose of which is to gather soldiers & their families together for a day of forced fun & frivolity in the hopes it will alleviate stress, loneliness [...]

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Driving in Korea

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now…but as usual, something else comes up. But needless to say, driving in Korea is more than a bit different than back home. Let’s start with the similarities: They drive on the right-hand side of the road, like us. They have traffic lights & stop [...]

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

A Day of Firsts

It started with our first snow in Korea. It was also Maggie’s first time to see snow. ‘What the…?…Holy crap! The clouds are falling, Mom!’ It’s alright, Moo-Moo…it’s just snow. It won’t hurt you. Maggie’s seen ice – oh yeah, lots of ice before. Last year at this time we were in Oklahoma & I [...]