It's been a few days here.....

We've been here a few days and ironically, it's been pretty smooth sailing. They lost one piece of luggage at the airport- we think someone else grabbed it because when we cleared customs, there was 8 of our 9 pieces and one left on the carousel that looked like one of ours. By the way, the one missing was the one that had all my military paperwork in it and a bunch of other electronic stuff. Of course! So I couldn't check in. I got the worst of it when I told the AF Element guys that. "You're supposed to hand-carry that stuff" I get. I had a baby, an antique violin, a laptop, and another bag of paperwork that probably wasn't as important as that paperwork. It doesn't matter now, I have it all. Thank goodness.
We have a cel phone. 010-5846-1532- that's the number for what it's worth. But we'll get a Skype number for people to call from the US. That's a good thing. We have 1 of 3 things we need. A car, a house and a phone. The cars here range from $35,000 used SUVs from the US to $500 pieces of junk. We're looking to spend 2-4 grand on a 6-passenger mini-van. They're cheap here, but they're just transportation anyway.
We need a car. We have to walk all over the place to get food and go places. But there's nothing better for jet-lagged kids than walking 3-5 miles a day. They don't argue about going to bed when they're that tired.
We ventured off-base for the first time since we got here the day before. We were looking for the 'for sale' signs in all the cars- but it's tough to find a car that holds 6 people. Saturday, we'll look around Seoul and try to find where Church is. It's going to be interesting to get there.
There was a Chinese restaurant we found just looking around, and once the kids got hungry enough for the sweet and sour pork and fried rice, they dug right in. They need work on the chopsticks and we need to work on the language.
Violet attracts a lot of attention. Everyone sees her and smiles, because a redhead is really rare here. The very elderly people really like to touch the kids. We don't mind and Violet is so indifferent to all the attention, it's just funny. I hope she doesn't get vain from all the attention.
This is such an interesting country. It's hard to believe it's in a stalemate war with the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" just up the way. Sad to think that the division was something they just had to deal with.
We went on another walk just off base again. Tomorrow we do a trip around on the subways and we'll look around Seoul. What a cool place!