Party with the Koreans

This is the one thing I will miss about Korea: the people. They have shown the Americans here some amazing hospitality. A couple of weeks ago, the Koreans working with Ainsley's division hosted an afternoon at the Korean Folk Village. They took them on a tour, gave them LOTS to drink and took them out to eat Korean food. Their tour bus even dropped off an intoxicated Ainsley right in front of our apartment building.

So, Saturday was our turn to return the favor and host a little party in their honor. The afternoon started off with bowling. We LOVE to bowl. We really suck at it, but we love it. The kids enjoy it and the bowling alley is loud enough that it drowns out the din of our unruly children. The Korean families were pretty good at it, too. Here is a super fun lady helping Andrew with the ramp. (I couldn't pronounce their names and they couldn't pronounce ours, so we're even.)

And, I have mentioned before that they LOVE kids, especially babies. These people were ALL over Madeline, in a good way. They fed her when she was hungry, took her out of her stroller to play with her when she was bored and gave her LOTS of hugs and kisses. This poor girl won't know what to do when we get back to America and no one gives her any attention!

Here the Korean kids are teaching the boys how to play pool.

Later, we went to Ainsley's commander's house for a little dinner. It was a Mexican food theme, so we had a taco bar and margaritas. Watching the Koreans try margaritas for the first time was HILARIOUS. I'm pretty sure they didn't like it by the faces they made. Too sour maybe? It was so fun.

Ainsley particularly enjoyed watching them at the taco bar. One guy was looking at the beans like it was a pile of you know what which is usually the face Ainsley tries not to make when he has to eat Korean food.

We made lots of broken conversation. Koreans love to ask you your age, which offends a lot of Americans, but I don't care. This guy, can't pronounce his name but he was 41, was trying to tell me about meeting Ainsley. One time, this guy told Ainsley that he was very handsome and should be a movie star! But all I could gather from him was that Ainsley is very tall and childlike. I really don't know if that's what he meant, but not too far off the mark, huh? And, he was also commenting on the beautiful view from the deck. "It is original." I still have no idea what he really meant, but there you go!