Hi All!  We are back in Korea, but I wanted to share this last picture that I took in the US, at Stop and Shop in Bedford.
You can see a bit of HomeGoods in the background.  I had a last minute craving for French Onion dip, and so Gary was nice enough to humor me and run in to get some.  So I had time to watch this lady park.  In the van access.  Twice.  She actually backed out once, and I thought that she was scooting her car into the correct spot, but no, she just straightened out her car.  And then looked around to see her spot, got her green bags, and left.  I am sure she was thinking, What are they gonna do? 

We had been to the Yousu World Expo in June, with the summer school students, but I couldn't put pictures on there, because they were all pictures of students.  This time, it was just all us teachers and families, so anything they do is fair game... These are the cute welcome ladies.

The Expo has this huge display called, can you guess???

The Big O.  No joke, that is what it is called. 
The theme of the expo is saving our seas, so maybe O for ocean?  or Odom?  

There were also these three ladies on tall bendy poles.  They did all this cool swaying and they would push each other back and forth.  It looked really fun, but they wouldn't let us try.

There was also this big puppet thing that was operated by a crane.  Now, if you saw a show titled The Big Man show, wouldn't you think it was this guy? 

So did we. And we waited for about 15 minutes for the show to start, but... nothing.  So instead we got in line to go into the Posco building, an exhibition put on by one of the steel companies in Korea.

Inside the exhibition was this huge circular room, and if you stood in the center you made a light shadow on the wall.  This is R-Man.

Then there was a crazy movie with this really big bubbly guy, and he melted into butterflies, and they turned into fish... I know, just like a Dead show... 



and then out came this big guy dancing, it was HILARIOUS!

R-man, Pooks, and their new friend...

The World Expo was really an amazing experience, and if you ever get to go, I would recommend it.

We were special guests at the USA pavilion, which meant we could cut the line.... OK, that was actually better than it sounds, the line was over an hour wait.  Our video was beautiful, and had images from lots of places in the US. 

Our fabulous teachers and families.

After the USA pavilion and lunch we headed over to the China pavilion, where we were NOT special guests, and had to wait about 70 minutes.  Luckily we had great company to talk to.  As we neared the end of the line we met this friendly guy, who's name is not Bob.  However, the initials for his security company are B.O.B.  so we called him BOB.  He was super friendly and let the kids stand in the A/C gushing out of the building. 

And this is Bob's friend, Bob.  They wound up calling over the China photographer who took about 50 pictures of the kids, and is probably telling everyone in China about those crazy Americans who call everyone Bob. 

Because the Expo was ending in three days the place was packed.  So we didn't get to see as much as we would have liked, but we did get to the kids place, again, and it was just as much fun.

The first room of the kids pavilion is a room filled with flour, which you are supposed to sprinkle on the floor and draw cute little bunnies and butterflies in.  Unless you are US.  Some got more into it than others...

Making a flour angel.

Doing barrel rolls...

Wicked FUN!

The next room is grain.  Don't ask me how the Koreans come up with this stuff.  I mean, who thinks... hmmmm... let's get a big room, fill it with grain, and let kids in.  And why didn't WE think of it?

because it is really fun to play in, and a great way to end the day.

Tomorrow we start year 3 of DIS, and we are so happy and thrilled to be here.  This place is amazing, and if you are ever in the neighborhood, please drop in and say, HI!"  You don't even have to call first!

xoxoxo 

PS, please remind RGP that it is Oktoberfest time!  :)  xoxoxo