Year: 2 Month: 1 Complete

Wow the first month of our second year in Korea has already come and gone!  We definitely stayed busy getting started with our new jobs have been slowly starting to enjoy the warmer weather that has been arriving.  Today we took advantage of the 50ish degree weather and went for a walk.  Throughout this week it is supposed to get quite springy, as much as 65 degrees maybe!  We both remember last March feeling extremely cold here, but we're pretty sure it was about the same as it has been this March.  It's just this year it feels SO much warmer after going through the last four months!!  We continue to hope that this means winter is officially over!!  Though that can only mean that summer is coming even closer.....

On Saturday night I had a few friends over for dinner (Eric was nice enough to let us girls have the house to ourselves for a few hours while he went to the movies).  It's really nice to be able to have enough room to have people over to just hang out for a while.  House parties are a very rare thing in Korea because the houses are so small.  It's much easier to sit at a restaurant talking for several hours than to go to someone's house for dinner.  For us, this is the first time we've had somewhere big enough to actually have people come over and we intend to take full advantage of it, whether that's the Korean way or not  :)

Since today was Easter we decided to cook a nice dinner together of a little Samgyupsal, a little marinated pork, some baked potato bites, broccoli and rolls.  It was quite delicious and we also enjoyed so homemade strawberry shortcake for dessert.  We laugh when we think about how last year we didn't buy much fruit for the first month or so, definitely never strawberries because we thought the only place you could get them was at the big marts for $10 for a couple berries or $20 for three or four apples.  Fortunately we have figured out a few things over the last year and have been enjoying produce (especially strawberries lately!) from the numerous fruit trucks on the streets.  They say the strawberries are grown in Korea in greenhouses.  I don't know if that's true or not but they sure are delicious!

A picture of our delicious Easter dinner we home cooked together