A Case of Deeya

We're all settling in for the night. The parental units are eating authentic Korean vegetarian burrittos from Dos Tacos and drinking Coke Zeros, and Thomas is eating his cheese quesadilla (pronounced by the T-man: "case of deeya"). We're watching the Muppets with their very specials guests Sandy Duncan and Candace Bergen and getting ready to crash for what may be our last good night's rest for a long time. The week has been great, but it would be fair to say we're getting tired.

Earlier this week we tried to plug in Doug and Kim's DVD player and through a mis-alignment of connectors, fried the power adapter. (Sorry guys!) Given the fourteen-hour fight in our near future, we knew this problem needed to be solved. We found an area in the tour book that listed a lot of markets and arcades, including some that had electronics. It seemed like the place to go. What we found when we got there was a most fascinating place. We came up out of the subway into what must have been the home interior market. It was several city blocks of small shops, all containing some portion of your home improvement needs - three toilet shops, followed by a couple sink shops, then a pipe shop, all across the street from an entire series of lighting storefronts. Imagine a Home Depot the size of an entire neighborhood, with each aisle run by a different shop owner. After a few wrong turns, we were able to find the "Best Buy/Radio Shack neighborhood." We went into one of the larger stores and found what reminded us of a flea market, with each vendor dressed in a suit and sitting in front of a collection of electronic equipment and accessories. We finally found a stall that seemed to have what we were looking for. Jared showed the man in the suit the broken adapter. He got out his voltmeter, measured the adapter, gave us the "one minute" sign, ran down about two stalls, and came back with an adapter. He showed us that the voltage listed on the back of our adapter was the same as the one we were buying, smiled, and said it would be 12,000 won. Since we're watching the Muppets, he apparently knew what he was doing.

Okay, so look at the pictures before reading this next paragraph and try to guess which boy is which. We'll tell you who's who at the end. Our afternoon was scheduled around Russell and Elliot's last physical check-up before we take custody tomorrow. It was a lot of fun to see the boys one more time. It may very well help that they've seen us a couple times before the big switch-over. We'll seem that much more familiar when they see us tomorrow. There's not much to say about the physicals - Elliot has an very low grade fever (so low it didn't show up on the thermometer) and bit of a red throat, but otherwise they're completely healthy. We then got to play with them for about 20 minutes after the physicals. These are two wonderful kids and we can't wait for you to meet them. So, enjoy the pictures and start praying for our journey home now! And in case you haven't figured it out yet, Jin-pyo is in the striped shirt and Jin-seo is in the blue shirt.