I meant to post photos from our last couple months in Korea once we got home and settled in. Then I was planning to post photos of our last few months in Korea and our summer at home. And then it became plans for the Korean photos, summer and fall. You get the picture, I'm sure. I had intended to do a "what we've been up to since we got back from Korea" post but as more time passes, it was getting more and more involved and there was more and more inertia. So, without further ado, here are some of my favourite photos from the last few months.
Finally, a photo of the infamous silkworm pupae snack cart. The silkworms are the brown stuff in the pot. The grey stuff in the other pot is some sort of little snail-like thing. Either way, when you purchase these snacks, they'll ladle you out a paper cup of your snack and hand it to you with a little pin.Most of the other carts I saw only sold the silkworm and the snail things so I never really got close enough for decent photos. I felt OK sticking my camera near the cart to take a picture because we bought a snack from this one. Yeah, we went with the cherries.
On our last evening in Korea, we went to one of our favourite barbecue restaurants . Those guys behind the Geezler aren't staring intently at our little rock star; they, along with everyone else ( including the staff), are staring at the TV behind her, watching the Red Devils play soccer. Free beers for everybody when they scored (except for the Geezler, of course; she got a popsicle).
Once we got over the jet lag, we got reaquainted with the flora and fauna in our back yard. Don't worry. All captured "boogs" were released back into the wild after a short period of time (except for a Houdini-like spider, who made her own way out of the jar while it was in the house.)
Guess where we spent our summer vacation?
Yep, we went to visit a mouse, some princesses and their friends.
We really missed our yard and deck while we were in Korea and we were happy to be back to it in the summer.
There were lots of lazy weekend brunches and barbeque dinners eaten while we watched the sun set and the local bat visit the streetlight for his own dinner. We were happy to be able to pick flowers and fruit from our garden again. We made jam using grapes from our yard. Then we did it again. And then again! Then we gave up! FYI: A six year old thinks squeezing grapes from their skins is sort of fun with the first batch but is not the least bit interested in helping by the time you get to the third batch of jam.
Geezler headed off to her first day at a Canadian school.
In October, we visited the Festival of the Lights at the Montreal Botanical Gardens. It reminded us a lot of the lantern displays we saw in Korea and made us a little nostalgic.
In the late fall and early winter, we threw ourselves into celebrating holidays with traditions we had missed while we were in Korea. We roasted a turkey for Thanksgiving (in a real oven!). We decorated for Halloween. By the way, this necessitated steering Geezler around the Halloween supply store with her eyes closed until we found the area for kids' costumes, choosing her witch costume, then steering her out of the store with her eyes closed. She does not like skeletons or zombies AT ALL, even when she knows they are fake. We celebrated birthdays with our traditional carrot cake for Geezler's birthday and orange cake for Gordon's (baked in our own oven!). Can you tell that we were really happy to be back in a house with a real oven?
We bought the biggest real Christmas tree we could fit in the house and decorated it lavishly.
We also made a structurally unsound gingerbread house.
We celebrated the Canadian winter with fires in the fireplace, snowmen in the backyard, hot chocolate after walks and lots and lots of shovelling of snow! Then we pretended that winter was over by visiting the butterflies and flowers at the Botanical garden during Butterflies Go Free.
Now, we're keeping a close eye on the receding piles of snow and the crocus shoots that are emerging. We're ready for spring, planning our gardens, and I'm only slightly jealous of the photos of cherry and apricot blossoms that I'm seeing from Korea.
So there you are, all caught up on the things that have been going on in our lives for the last few months.
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