Oh, holy crap

WOOOHOOOO!!!!!!! Brooklyn flew a plane last night. NIGHT FLIGHT, what in the heck??
Yeah, the plan was to just get a ride, not actually take the controls....B's not even done with ground school!! The instructor just told her to take off, kind of talked her through it......and BAM! Perfect takeoff! Believe it or not, people....
What a rush!
K, we love y'all!!! Hopefully we'll get the camera up and going soon, for pictures flying. In the mean time, B says she's taking the video camera next time. Maybe we'll try and post some videos on here!

New, cool foods...

So, as promised...

These are some of the new foods we've been trying.

Dok bokki, is a spicy "rice cake" type food...it's not like the rice cakes you all are thinking about either, it's not sweet at all...REALLY SPICY, and really tasty. It's good!! (Dok bokki=the bottom pic, reddish color)

Dok, as we understand, means rice... So, if anything has that name in it, it's probably made with rice. Interesting...

Oh, and of course the kimbop. It's wonderful. Tuna is the best. (looks like sushi rolls-middle pic)

We also like mandu...it's so addicting. Can it be good for you??? It's steamed, so that's a start! (top pic)

More later,

B&C

Just a funny...

Just yesterday, Cole and Brooklyn got yelled at by a Korean lady for parking in a wrong spot...
Haha, the first time she came to our door-she rambled off something in Korean, of course, we didn't know what....so 5 minutes pass and she's back! Yelling La Car!! La Car!!! and doing driving hand motions, haha. We got so tickled...and figured out that B had parked her car a little too close to there outside door and they couldn't get in! Ooooops. :) At least we think that was the problem, after the car was moved noone yelled...
Just thought you would enjoy the story...

Hey

We had our first Korean skiing experience today, and well.....at least we survived.

Apparently the Koreans loooooove them some speed bumps but despise u-turns. We hit no less than 50 speed bumps driving the 80 or so miles to Oak Valley Ski Resort in eastern Korea, probably about 10-15 more than we would have if we'd made all the right turns. We missed the exit we were supposed to take and had to drive another 30 min, go through another 2 toll booths, and get awesome instructions (in korean) on how to get back to the road we wanted. I haven't figured out why they think we can understand korean yet, but they keep talking anyways. Saying "Donde esta" after they finish talking really throws them off too. Anywho, we made it to the resort and skied all afternoon. B mustered up the courage to get on the child lifts and only fell twice (once while standing perfectly still) all day...you guys would be proud. Naw, we had a blast watching other people fall, yeah we may get payed back for it later but you all know it's fun to watch someone else bite it on the snow......see you're kinda laughing to yourself right now. Here are some funny pics to help you pass the time.

The Korean New Year

Well, ladies and gents...
We had our New Year Jan. 1...while the Koreans have a New Year on Jan. 26 (Mom Walls' birthday, they picked a good day, huh?)
The New Year brought snow, as you can see. We had fun with it, but have a tough time driving around without a 4x4!
Cole says the Sonata 2 is "no joke in the snow", and B said different when we had to get around 7-8 run and go's to get up a hill near our house.
Hope everyone is doing well...we miss you.
THE CHILDERS

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Oh!
Something else:
We're gonna try to keep everyone updated on the bizzare foods we try...
so, Kimbop B's new favorite. Cole likes it too, but he wants to wait to name a fave.
kimbop is almost like a sushi roll, but it's tuna with veggies inside all rolled up in seaweed- maybe... i know it may sound terrible, but good golly it's good.
Next time we have it, we'll take a pic to post!
Love from the Childers!

Well, it's the new year...and B is going to flight school to get her private pilot's license! She'll start on Jan. 20 with ground school, and off to the wild-blue yonder! We are so excited!
We can't wait for the Reddick(Anna and Abby come later to visit-not soon enough...) and Willis families to get here! We miss them, they're such good friends... more like family.
We miss all of our family, especially at Christmas, but are still having a great time.
We really do appreciate all the support from everyone. Our parents have been both rocks and strong encouragement to get out and really see the world! We're very blessed and grateful!
The good ole mustang should be here in about a week, and we'll get the pleasure(ugh) of driving all the way from Seoul back home...which will be major craziness. People here cannot drive, at all. They're always honking horns, turning in front of you, running red lights. Unreal.
and we had to take a driving test for this!??!! we passed, 100's. :)
We're excited about an upcoming trip...we're going to a war memorial (and shopping in Itaweon) It should be a lot of fun, and just the other day we decided to just get out and drive around...we got a little lost, but it's just amazing to see everything! and, everytime we go out and do anything it leaves us wanting to go and see even more! I hope there's enough time to get it all in-we'll probably be really broke after this oversea stuff, but we both feel like it's worth it to get to go on little/big adventures together! Maybe when B becomes a pilot she'll be able to fly us to Japan or somewhere cool before we have to leave this awesome little penisula!
Hopefully more pictures soon!
Love you
Brooklyn & Cole