What an amazing day!

It's Friday July 4th here at 3:30 am. I did a little better with sleeping last night, we didn't go to sleep until 9 pm and actually stayed asleep until just now. It was an awesome day today. The weather cleared up, and we were able to venture out.

We went back up to the nursery early Thursday morning, and stayed about 1 hr and 1/2. It is still my favorite place to be, they need so much help. It's alot like being back at work, except 6 times bigger. =( Madison LOVES being up there and is such a big helper!

She has been AWESOME! Everyone (American's) comment on how well behaved she is being (she has them all fooled ), and is LOVING every second of attention she is getting from the Korean people. (who would have thought) They keep saying how pretty she is and touching her hair, and telling her how lucky she is. They want her to give them high 5, and a few young police officers were making faces at her to make her laugh!

We met the President Dr. Kim today, and she told us the history of Eastern (our agency here) and how Senior Dr. Kim had a heart for the orphans and wanted to find them find homes.

Then we had lunch here at the guesthouse with the workers and 4 other adoptive families, and 8 families who are back on a birth tour (one family we met at the airport, and their son will be 13 on July 5-he was adopted from here 13 years ago) The food was great! Kimchi, Bulgogi, some type of chicken, and everything else we just didn't ask! It was all very tasty.

After lunch we had the honor of meeting the founder Senior Dr. Kim he will be 93! He works from 9-5 and is a fabulous christian man. He spoke to us about the history of Korea, and how he started the agency, and how they have placed I believe over 45,000 babies since 1963, that year might not be right, I will need to double check. He is so thankful that Americans can love and take care of their babies and give them a chance to have a life that they wouldn't have here. It was really a touching moment. That man is truly a man of God. I am thankful that we were able to meet him.

Another couple is staying in the room beside us, they are adopting a little girl, and we all decided to venture out together after our meetings. We took the subway! It was a little confusing at first, but I think we figured it out. We went to City Hall, and to the Namdaemun market. The market was ok, I am not one to haggle with people so I just paid what they said, I think I spent about 65000 won so $65. We were laughing with the other couple, Jessica and Josh, because the lady was telling me something was 5000 won and then would tell her the same thing was 10000 won. And we think she was telling the other Koreans 3000 won. Needless to say, it was an experience.

Then we decided to find a restaurant, which was a lot of fun, especially trying to figure out what they served. The great man, who helps at our agency Mr. Shin, who has been fabulous, wrote us a note to give the restaurant that said give them good bulgogi, and gave us directions, well we walked to where he said, went in and handed the man our note, he said no bulgogi, so we left, walked back to the agency and told Mr. Shin no bulgogi, so he walked us to the right place, and it had closed down recently, so he literally walked us to every restaurant in the course of 4 blocks, he said he'd never been down that way before, and then kept asking us if we wanted pizza, we could have it in 10 min! We told him we didn't want pizza, so we thanked him and went back to the first restaurant we went to, we ordered 2 plates of stuff we think was chicken. It was actually pretty good.

Well, we see Noah again today, they changed our time to 1:00 pm, so I will update more after we see him.