Pictures!

The internet connection in our hotel room is very poor, so after waiting for close to a half hour just to send out an e-mail, I decided to bite the bullet and use the hotel computers. There's a small fee but it is worth having a much faster connection! Once I came up here I saw that their computers had a drive for my camera's memory card, so I am finally able to share some pictures! Here's Aiden looking at something on the social worker's phone. We were trying everything we could to get him to stop crying. The little cartoon on her phone finally did the trick.

We weren't able to take any pictures of us holding Aiden because he was so wary of us. We tried to follow his pace and gradually moved in to try to play with him. By the end of our time with him, Luke was making him laugh but then I was too busy using the video camera to take any pictures.

The rest of the pictures are from our stay in Kwangju. Many things happened in Kwangju that we will share later but don't really want to post on the blog. I'll just show you a few things we did during our stay there. Mrs. Yoo really wanted to take us to this Oriental Medical Clinic. One of her friends works there. It was the strangest medical visit I have ever had. We had our height and weight taken which is typical, but other than that, it was very unusual. We had to put our fingers on some pads which then displayed a bunch of readings about us and put some colors around the projected picture of our face. Then the doctor took a picture of our eye and used that to tell us some things about ourselves. It was interesting because a lot of what he told us is actually true things about ourselves that we were surprised he was able to figure out.

During our stay in Kwangju we were treated to a traditional Korean lunch. These are just a few of the plates that were put on the table during our meal. There were at least 30 plates presented during the course of the meal and everyone at the table would take what they wanted. It was a big treat to Luke, but I must admit that there wasn't much I liked. There were some beef dishes that were good to me, but I had to pass on the dried fish, octopus, and seaweed soup.


We were fitted for hanboks while we were in Kwangju as a gift to us. Here is Luke being measured. Apparently, the tailor is going to try to have them made and shipped to our hotel before we leave on Wednesday.

A lot of new buildings were constructed since the last time we visited Luke's orphanage. This building was a chapel and also included a couple rooms for people to stay, a bathroom, and a kitchen.

Here's the room where we stayed while were in Kwangju. It was tight but it was nice staying on the grounds of Luke's old orphanage instead of staying in a hotel.


This is the outside of the building where we stayed. There were about 3-4 more similarly styled buildings on the property. None of them were there during our last visit.

This was a sculpture on the property that was placed in honor of all Korean adoptees.

Here's the plaque placed near the sculpture. There were many more amazing events that took place during our stay in Kwangju. Don't fear family and friends. We will share it all with you when we return home!