Saturday, June 16.

Today we met Max's foster sister, Sun Ok. She is the girl in the pink. Her friend, Soo Ri, and Sun Ok went with us to the Incheon v. Seoul K League soccer match. Really nice girls who wanted to spend some time with us working on their English, because they both want to go to flight attendant school when they graduate from high school next year. Their English is actually good, they just need to build confidence to use it...

And the soccer, that did not disappoint. have pictures of the game, of course, but the shot above is of the Seoul FC end zone cheering section and their fire in the stands. What's soccer without a fire in the stands? It was loud and crazy and everything that a soccer match should be.

Now stadium food here is great. for a buck you get a ramen bowl. They have huge tanks of scalding hot water and chop sticks. You can also get a kimbab roll (rice, meat, egg, cucumber and maybe spam rolled up in seaweed paper. Awesome). And that's it, unless you want the dried squid flamed over an open gas fire until it shrivels into a frito.

And the mess? None. Everyone cleans up their mess. separates the trash into paper, plastic and food bins. In fact, you do that everywhere, including the McDonald's.

And here is a mystery. There are no public trash cans on the street. But there is no trash on the street. Cleanest city you will see. Read about that in advance, but waited to see for myself. It's true.

It's now Sunday here, and tonight we are going to the US military base to have dinner with some folks there. Should be interesting. Tomorrow, it is the Folk Village down south of town in Suwon. Then, just one more day before we head home....we will be sorry to leave, the pace here has been just right...

Oh, and Dad, Happy Father's Day!