Happy Easter!

We wanted to take a minute to wish everyone a very happy Easter!  It's hard to know it even is Easter here.  Unlike home where the Easter candy has been in the stores since February 15th, here there is no Easter candy to be found, no plastic eggs and no churches advertising their Easter services.  Maybe it's because the country is predominately Buddhist or maybe it's because they just don't commercialize every single holiday the way America does.

After a more lazy Saturday spent at an English bookstore looking for books that can teach us Korean, testing out Korean Taco Bell, another stop at Traveler's Bar & Grill and a lot of subway riding, we spent our Easter Sunday afternoon at Seoul Children's Grand Park.  It was a beautiful, warm, spring day and we enjoyed the time outside.  Although the park has many activities for children, there was still plenty to see and do for adults as well.  We spent our time walking through the zoo seeing the elephants, lions, monkeys, birds, etc. and the botanical garden.   We also tested out the new baseball gloves we bought, playing catch down by the river.  We may not be too good yet, but we did manage to keep the ball out of the river!  Our Easter dinner consisted of our usual cooking- pork cutlet and ramen noodle with veggies and dumplings soup.  We have become pretty good at cooking in our small kitchen (which also serves as the laundry room and bathroom sink) and almost feel like real Koreans with our meat and noodles every night!  (We leave out the kimchi.  Having it once in a while at school or a restaurant is plenty.)

Tomorrow it's back to work for another week but this time it's the week of our first payday :)  The internet is not cooperating with uploading pictures so please check out our pictures site in the next day or so to see all the new ones!