It seems that coming back is just as hard as going. Whenever I cross the international date line it takes me a few days to recover. Luckily, my school director gave me Thursday and Friday off to rest. We got home at 11:30pm after a long journey and I was grateful for the extra rest time. I took some serious naps on Thursday. By Friday I felt pretty good. If could just stop waking up at 6am like I did when we stayed with Jessie and her babies I’d be fine.

MyeongHee wasn’t so fortunate. Her boss is quite harder on her than mine is on me. The self-employed have to be like that, I suppose.  She went right back to her hairshop on Thursday and was quite busy – lots of men complaining that no one else can cut their hair like she does. It’s good to have repeat clientele. She stayed busy for three days and on Sunday she slept all day. She doesn’t feel well, and I hope its just fatigue catching up with her and not something she picked up in transit.

We had a late surprise on our travel costs. We tried to save a little cash and not park our car at the airport for the two weeks while we were in the US. Instead, MyeongHee’s brother and sister-in-law met us at the airport and they kept the car at his office in Busan. He picked us up at the airport and drove us to the office and we drove home. Apparently, however, one only has minimal time to meet someone for a pickup. We got an automated spy camera ticket for $30 in the mail for staying too long in the dropoff section at the airport. Those damn cameras are everywhere in this country. Combine that with the extra 1.5 hours of driving around Busan  and I wonder about cost vs convenience of just parking there. In 2008, it was $140 for two weeks. This time is was $30 and a lot of driving in Busan traffic.

I’ve been trying to make a short video of Teri’s graduation. Seems like my video editing program, Studio 10, is failing. I swapped out hardware a few months ago and am wondering if the change in hardware is causing me problems – the audio is sounding like Alvin and the Chipmunks. I’ll try and get that fixed and get Teri’s vid done soon.

MyeongHee and I and glad to be back in our own beds and she’s very happy to be speaking Korean and eating kimchi. We had a fabulous time in the US and we already miss everyone tons.  I hope the next 12 months until we can come again goes quickly.