30 hours of my life.

Sorry in advance that there are no pictures in this entry, we are currently residing in an internet cafe and the cords to the camera are not with us!

Just to updated everyone, we made it safe and had a very long but suprisingly easy trip to Korea.

Thursday morning Joseph and I both met up at the airport about 8am. Thankfully early check in allowed us some extra time to just chill and not have to rush to our flights! That was also a good thing because Joseph discovered he had his mom's cell phone still in his pocket from earlier that morning, so we called my parents on it ( because we would not have been able to call Mrs. Kelly!!!) and thankfully they had not reached home and were able to turn around and come get it. Then we proceeded to check in, during which we had to take off our shoes and go through security checks and have them x-ray all our luggage, by the time we finished this it was a bout 9.... and our flight didn't leave till 10:55 so we walked around to the Borders and I bought a book for the plane and we just enjoyed the scenery and watching the planes.

We boarded our flight with no problems and the short trip to Atlanta was easier than expected, I also felt really good about it because there were some military people on that flight so I knew we were protected from an possible terrorists! It was so short, they served us a coke and we flipped though Sky magazine... and we were there!

The atlanta airport was very easy to navigate and we took a weird underground train to our terminal... it was very fast, and was alot easier than walking that far. We came back above ground and saw a food court, so thinking this might be our last time to enjoy some american food we went to Qudoba and split a burrito, just in case the lunch they served us on the plane was nasty. We also saw a huge duty free shop but didn't go in it.

Our plane from Atlanta to Tokyo was MASSIVE... it had 10 seats to a row, and way to many rows to count... unfortunately out of all those seats we could not get two together so I ended up sitting directly behind Joseph for 14 hours. He sat between a young girl andthe daughter of some mayor from atlanta. He was lucky since one was quiet and one slept... I sat next to some English guy with HUGE bicepts ( which unfortunately took up most of the arm rest on my right) and then a very sweet old woman who was japanese and didn't speak any english.... ( too bad the English guy did, and he liked to talk...) They served us a choice of beef or chicken... which was okay, but I was glad we had the qudoba before we left.

I watched the first two of the three movies they showed, State of Play, night at the museum 2, and Star Trek.... I had just seen star trek, and it was getting very late ( at home) by then. It was odd since we were flying back over the US ( we flew over alaska and Canada and part of Russia) to get to Tokyo) so it was so cold outside you could see frost on the widows...

They also served us a snack of fruit and some weird sandwich roll thing which had cream cheese, cucumber and egg slices ... It was okay.

and they also served breakfast ( it was like 2 in the morning for us when they did) but you could pick from eggs and sausage or fried rice.... very interesting!

When we arrived at the Tokyo Airport we were both really nervous about figuring out where to go and what we needed to do. Luckily we were already in the right terminal and our gate was easily found since we were able to see alot of english everywhere!

We didn't have hardly any time between flights but we did manage to get a picture of authentic Hello Kitty merchendise and a picture of the cool drink machine. ( they had phone cards but it only took yen and we didn't want to convert our money just yet)

So we got on our last flight, and it was a struggle to stay awake, but the turbulence and the raw fish the served aided in that! I think i did manage to sleep a bit, even though they were showing entire episodes of Two and a Half men. (***YEAH ENGLISH**) they had flight attendants that spoke Korean, English and Japanese.

They had alot of trouble stabalizing the plane because there was a lot of turbulance, and at one point our drinks almost spilled out of the cup! We kept dropping altitudes and it kinda felt like a ride in Disney world. ( except not fun).

We arrived and luckily all our luggage came out together ( easily spotted with the bright green luggage tags and blue ribbons)

We had to go through Security AGAIN... but at least this time we didn't have to take off our shoes! We then got our passports stamed, and then headed to get our money exchanged into Won. It kinda looked like play money.

We took about three steps out to the lobby and Simpson was on us before we had time to look for a sign or a phone! He introduced himself and shook our hands, and then proceeded to lead us to his car!

I thought I would be really tired from all the air travel but upon seeing our new destination (even in the dark) I perked up for the entire two hour drive. We saw mountains everywhere, with tons of brightly lit buildings and homes. It looked like Las Vegas with all the neon lights.

Simpson assured us that we were in good hands by saying " Not to worry, I excellent driver"... And boy was he. He was able to hit almost every speed on the truck as well as honk at anyone who tried to pass him! I counted at least 11 times he got to use his horn....

I remember being a little kid and telling my dad to "make sure to go as fast as the law allowed"when I was tired and wanted to get home.....I didn't feel like I had to tell Simpson that! He was on top of it!

he did tell the truth though, he was an excellent driver, and we had fun listening to his musical choices ( sounded like country mixed with 60's polka.) to which he sang along. He also played some traditional stuff for us too which was really neat.

He then took us to a hotel, since our apartment was not ready.... but that will all be in another blog as my hour here at the PC cafe is almost up!

We are glad to be here, and miss home tons! And thanks to everyone for their support and prayers, I know that so much could have gone wrong, and since nothing did I know for sure God was watching over us.

(Also I apologize for all the spelling errors, it is late, and this korean Keyboard is difficult to use!)