The Trip Over (by Bob)

Hello from Seoul, Korea!  We made it to the hotel about 8pm, Tuesday local time (about 6am Eastern) after a long flight and more cabs than we originally intended on taking -- more on that later.

First, a debrief starting from the trip over.

We set off on Monday morning at 8:30 am from Silver Spring.  Kevin and Claire dropped us off at the airport with plenty of time to spare and the plane was on time.  

Korean Airlines is awesome -- very professional staff, clean and comfortable seats, great food and an unbelievable entertainment system.  Colleen tried Bee Bim Bap on the plane (although we had it before and Joe and Erika's) and we both ended up watching 3 to 4 movies each.  By the way - the new Indiana Jones flick is worth watching if you like the originals. 

 

The demographic of the plane passengers is worth mentioning -- I would estimate about 95% were of Korean descent.  This makes sense given that it is not tourism season, however it made it feel like we were in Korea before we left the tarmac!

The flight was roughly 14 hours and landed ahead of schedule.  We flew through customs and caught a bus by 5:20 pm local time on Tuesday.  Everything was going really well and then I had to open my big mouth.  We were on the bus coming up on the hotel and I said to Colleen, "Watch this not be our hotel".  

When we went to check-in, we discovered that we didn't have a reservation and it was not our hotel.  Long story about a typo on the map from our adoption agency, a few assumptions made by your truly and a name change by the hotel, but we ended up in a great hotel down the street for about a third of the cost by 8pm.  We tried to stay up, barely able to talk and eat because we were so tired -- ended up in bed by 9:30 pm.

On to more important things:  Today we get to meet our son!!  We are getting ready in the hotel right now and will meet the local adoption agency social worker at 9:30 am at their site.  She will escort us over to the foster family's house for our first visit.  We'll give a full report out afterwards.  Stay tuned for more on the Bo Chronicles....