On the eve of Typhoon Kompasu...

...the 607th Weather Squadron wives were out on the town. Our husbands all got off work late due to the weather we have coming but we still made it. It was so fun and YUMMO!!! Some came for dinner and then others trickled in when we met for coffee and deserts after dinner at another place. Yes a typhoon is coming...it's like a hurricane. We are expecting 75mph winds starting in the morning. So I am about to go through a typhoon in my high rise apartment...at least we won't flood since we live on the
17th floor.



Typhoon Kompasu is already causing havic...no school, everything I mean EVERYTHING is closed tomorrow. Sure hope we don't loose power or that cable tv. I chatted with my old neighbor Kelly from Wiesbaden, Germany who is at Camp Casey, Korea and they are all closed down tomorrow too.








Check out the playground here at Seoul American Elementary School...I can't get my kids to leave. After 1400(2pm) anyone can play on it...so I have a feeling we will be staying after school to play most days.

We DROVE to Osan today

Steve was off work today so we went to Osan Air Base...Steve was stationed here 14 years ago and back when I was in the Air Force, flying in the Medi-evac squadron out of Japan, I would come here once and twice a week...use to see Steve too...back when we were just friends.







We drove believe it or not. Osan is a pretty big Korean city an hour south of Seoul. It was a really nice drive.





We had some errands to get done for our SOFA stamps and Korean visa's.









Back 14 years ago there were only military people here...not now. The base is DANG NICE with families every where. Look at the foodcourt....Captain D's, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Subway, Taco Bell, Baskin Robbins and a few others...oh and Chili's.



And check out this BX...I will want to go back for sure. The base is totally different than it was 14 years ago.










Now out the front gate...nothing has changed. They have the best shopping. The stores are the same...same stores in the same location...crazy and what fun Steve and I had today showing our kids.

The perfect stuff for sell for my family!!! Ben picked up a Drew Brees jersey today.

They liked all those mink blankets. Osan is a fighter jet base. There were cool F-16's flying all around us...we aren't allowed to take picture's of that stuff...but my kids sure enjoyed watching them practice.

And of course I scored a new Coach purse. Love that Korean shopping.

This past weekend of course we went out to support our local "Boys Of Fall". It was Seoul American High School vs. Daegue (sp?). Next week our team Seoul American will fly to Okinawa to face-off Kadena and then they will play here at Yongsan again...that's okay we will be glued to the TV this weekend...LET THOSE GAMES BEGIN!!!!

"GET HELP"

The kids were asleep, I was relaxing on our stiff Army couch stitching watching an episode of General Hospital...Steve was in the shower. "GET HELP" (I thought get out) started screaming from the monitor thing on our living room wall. I am yelling for Steve to get out here I think there might be a fire or something and we need to leave. He takes forever so I yell for him again. He still doesn't jump out of strange long shower. So I run into my room yelling at him while the monitor in the living room is going off. I then hear Steve and he says it's him he is locked in the bathroom. I was wondering what was taking him so long. See this picture in our master bath...the toilet has a million buttons and on the wall are the emergency buttons...that's what Steve had pushed. He said he had been yelling for help 20 min., poor guy was sweating to death in there. The very next min. our doorbell is ringing and our doorman and security guy from downstairs were up here. The alarm Steve hit goes to them. The siren was flashing and going off in the hallway outside our front door too. HOLY MOLY! Steve got out and the Korean guy was smiling and bowing after he had finally got our alarm to go off...we were so embarrassed.

This is the control panel in our living room. You can let visitors in the building, open the front door, we have an elevator button to push so when we are leaving the house the elevator will be waiting for us on our floor. It's got a camera so you can see who is coming and going. This apartment is SOOOO nice. Can you believe we have gaurds to let you in the parking garage and a doorman that says hello and bows every time you enter the building....it's crazy.

Things so far have been fun. Last night I went to the South Post Chapel for the quilting club...FUN STUFF! Last Saturday we also took the train to Dongdaemun to the huge fabric market...WOW. I am going back....alone or with friends. I took pictures I will share later.