Busy week ahead of us

Wow. It's already the end of July. This month seemed to flyyy...
Ashley leaves on the 4th =( we'll be sad to see her go, but it was great having her this summer, we had a great time hanging out.
Tim goes to the promotion board on the 5th to get his E5. I think he's a little nervous, I'm sure he'll be fine...he just wasn't expecting it to be so soon, he thought he had until the middle of the month.
This next week will just be really busy, trying to cram in all we can for Ashley's last days here, getting her to the airport and figuring out how we're going to get her there by 4am since the earliest bus doesn't leave CRC til 7. =/ I don't know how we'll do that, if we'll just go the day before and stay in a hotel? Or take a taxi early in the morning... either way it's going to cost a lot.
Also, this week I need to check with our realtor about a satallite dish (shhh...don't tell Tim =)), I'm getting one installed so we can get AFN and Tim will be able to watch football this year, it's part of his birthday presant from me, his birthday is on Sep. 3rd. I should have gotten it last year or the year before so that we would have gotten more use out of it and he could have watched football, but I had no idea how to get it until just this weekend.
So anyways, busy week...
Oh, Tim's on night schedule now so that's going to make things a little difficult with doing stuff with ashley, and taking her to the airport, he's just going to be really tired all the time, and for him tired=grouchy...
Well, I need to get going and start some laundry and eat dinner. More later!

Summertime♥

Wow! It's been a few weeks since I last updated... and I don't really have a good excuse.
I decided that since my insomnia decided to come back to visit I could take advantage of these late nights being awake and update this thing...sooo...
After our trip to Hawaii, Ashley came back to visit just a couple days later and will be here all of July until August 4th. We spend a lot of days at the pool relaxing, and staying inside on the rainy days (which basically is every day now, woooh for monsoon season.) We have gone to Seoul a few times and plan on going again this week with Timmy to the Korean war memorial museum. Just last week Ashley and I had gone to Seoul to do some shopping and walked right by the museum not knowing that Hilary Clinton was actually there at the museum speaking that day! We found out the next day that she had been there and were a little bummed that we could have seen her speak. Not like we really care about her but it would have been cool to say we saw her in Seoul.
Well, I don't really have anything else to share. I'm just trying to enjoy summer(even if it has been storming a lot), and go to the pool as often as possible...I love summer =)

Hawaii

Sunrise at Bellows AFB
Look how crystal clear that water is.

It's been awhile, and this will be a short one. Just want to share some pictures and give a little update.

Tim and I have been in Honolulu the last week and a half, we are just loving it! Only 2 days left though =( we leave monday morning.

The first 5 days we were here we stayed with our family at Bellows AFB in cabins right on the beach, litterally, when we walked out our front door we were about 60 feet from the shore, it was absolutely amazing!! On tuesday, our family had to leave, so Tim and I went to Waikiki beach and are now staying at the Hale Koa hotel, which is awesome but the beach isn't as great as bellows. The waves aren't big at all and it's kind of rocky, but it is just as beautiful.. in fact the water here is more crystal clear then at bellows because of the waves being smaller.

Anyways, today Tim and I are going to drive to Bellows for the day and play there. Probably boogie board most of the time.

Some things we have done while here are: Luau's, one at the polynesian center, the other here at the hale koa. Snorkling at Hanauma bay. Driving around Diamond head and seeing the blow hole, sea life park to see turtles, and other scenic points. We went to pearl harbor two different days, the first we just walked around the memorial but were to late to get tickets for the Arizona, the second day we went early for tickets to the arizona, but befor we could make it back for our tour that afternoon, Tim and I got food poisoning and were in bed sick all day. Not a fun experience at all.

This trip has been so great, so glad we were able to come! We both needed a break from Korea.

Anyways, I need to get going...

More later!

This place has a lot to take in

Today I took Robin and Ashley downtown Uijeongbu to show them all the shopping and point out the bars and restaurants we enjoy going to here. Within the area there is a marketplace where they have vendors set up selling fish, fruit and vegetables, various korean dishes such as kimchi and sushi. Also they had vendors set up selling clothes and souveniers. They had an area where they sold all sorts of imported items from the states like candy, liquor, canned food items. We walked around this area for a good 45 min-1 hour. After we saw everything I took them to the underground mall which is also downtown. It's just this huge area underground near the subway station that has a ton of vendors set up selling shoes, purses, jewelry, clothes and they also have several cellphone shops. We didn't spend much time down there though, there just wasn't much down there that we were looking for.
We're about to go to beef n' leaf so that Robin can try it(Ashley was here last year so she's eaten it before). So I need to get going! More later.

Our family is here!

Robin and Ashley arrived safely, Tim and I got to the airport around 8 to pick them up. We had to wait 2 hours for the bus, so we just hung out, got some mcdonalds breakfast. We made it back to our apartment around 11:30am, and have just been hanging out and playing rockband. I think today will just be a chill day and relax. Tomorrow we will probably walk around and show them the area near our apartment and possibly take them to a beef n' leaf to try out some korean cuisine.
It's so nice having them here, it makes this place feel a little like home.
Time to get back to hanging out with the fam.

This day just keeps going

I feel like this day has been really long....since I have pretty much been awake since monday afternoon(Its now wednesday night). I've only been able to take naps since monday, I've slept a total of 6 hours and that was in like 2 hour intervals.
Besides that, this day has just been long anyways. I had to wake up from my sleep around 11am to meet Tim on post at ACS to get my visa extended. We got to ACS and filled out the form and gave her the memorandum and everything just to find out that they wouldn't have it done until the 25th! Not good considering we leave for Hawaii on the 24th, and I wouldn't be able to enter Hawaii without a passport, or re-enter Korea. Sooo...she told us if I want it done before then I would have to go to the immigration office myself, which is what I thought we had to do in the first place anyways before someone told us ACS did it for us. Tim was NOT thrilled about going to immigration since that involved a 20 min walk to the subway, a 15 min wait for the train, a 3-4 min taxi ride to immigration, then back again. So a total of approximately 80 minutes of traveling. To top all that off, we waited TWO HOURS until our number was called, just to do something that took a total of 2 minutes! I'm not even kidding. Waited 2 hours, then all he did was glanced at our paperwork, circled 2 things, printed off the visa sticker, stuck it in my passport, handed it back to me and said thankyou. 2 minutes.
Anyways, we got back home around 5 o'clock and Tim had a softball game at 7, so we ate dinner and he left for that. I stayed back home and cleaned...which I need to get back to, just wanted to take a break and figured I would update my blog.
Oh, another thing. Tim found out while we were waiting at immigrations that he doesn't have to go to the range of friday, and that they are most likely going to move his soldier of the month board to a later day. So he should be able to go with me to pick up his family from the airport! And then we'll all be able to hang out tomorrow until he has to go to work nightshift. So that's really exciting that he'll be here tomorrow. It just sucks he'll be on nights though, it would've been nice to be able to do things during the day. Oh well.
Anyways, gotta get some cleaning done and go to bed!

Sleep deprivation failed to work

Well. I almost succeeded in switching back to my normal schedule and sleeping at night. I managed to stay awake until 3pm before going to sleep, and probably could have slept until 3am since I had been awake for 24 hours. But...then our landlord called me around 5 wanting to come at 7 for rent. = So, I fell back asleep for about an hour then woke up to get stuff together for her, and have been awake ever since. It's now 4:30am. So in the last....36+ hours I have gotten.. 3 hours of interrupted sleep. I'm going to end up falling asleep in a few hours here and probably not be able to wake up until this afternoon...and then be awake all night again. urgh. Maybe I can get Tim to drag me out of bed no later than noon and keep me busy all day so I can go to sleep at night tonight. I'm gonna have to...I have to leave to pick Robin and Ashley up at the airport at 6:30, which means I'll wake up at 5:30. These next couple days are going to be long....lucky me gets to ride an hour long bus ride twice tomorrow morning.
Well, since I am awake right now, might as well get the last of the cleaning done. Oh, joy.
I'll write more later, and try to make it happy. =) My next one should be happy, will probably be after Robin and Ashley are here!! I am so excited to hang out with them!