Matt in Asia

I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing better than having visitors.  You get to have a little piece of home in your new home, you get to share 'your world' with them, experience everything as though it's new again with them ...and they bring amazing goodies from home that you have been missing.

Matt was our first, and I am so happy that he was able to make it.  He spent the week saying, "I can't believe I am in Asia," and I think by the end of the week he had not only experienced, but enjoyed.  I hope anyways. 

A week is a short time to visit, after a 13 hour flight (which is actually kinda like 24 hours on the way over because of the time difference and 1 hour on the way back ...crazy) I'm sure it can seem like a whirlwind as your body tries to adjust to not only the new food, the new smells, the new environment, the new language going on all around you but also the time difference.  It probably takes a week once you get home to settle from your 'vacation.'

Sadly, visiting us isn't quite like visiting Club Med ...but I didn't make him clean his clothes up off the ground ...and he did get the customary vacation nap in most afternoons ...and he enjoyed Soju with the best of them, so hopefully Matt will recommend hotel Lori & Wayne to any other guests travelling this way.  He has assured me that the next time he is in Asia, he will be sure to stay with us.

While there isn't a huge list of things to do and see, there is definitely enough here to keep you busy and having fun for a couple weeks.  Matts priorities were the DMZ Tour (North Korea,) the baseball game (it comes highly recommended,) alittle sightseeing in Seoul and of course, you can't come to Korea without taking a trip to the Nora Bong.

So in short, he did it all.  And then he was gone, and I can honestly say that the apartment felt emptier without him ...cleaner, but definitely emptier.

Have a look at the pictures above, my favourites of course being the Nora Bong ones.  People simply do not realize how much they are going to love it until they are in it.  But second to that, you have to check out the picture of Matt standing next to the door ...classic.