DIRT CAKES AND MUD PIES

Just a few snapshots of "gettin down and dirty" at the Boryeung Mud Festival...This is no ordinary mud, this is the mud mask, mud bath, paying big bucks to slather yourself in it kind of mud!! It does feel better than just rained dirt kind of mud...it dries to a powder pretty quickly and you do look pretty funny-the bottom picture is of some Koreans that pose as Mud statues ALL DAY at this festival-they do look pretty "statue"like-except for the one guy that has a drink in his hand. He kinda ruined it!!

A Welcome Visit

Mom came for a visit to see the children and I guess the big children too ;), but also so that Chris and I could go to China before the next Strommer clan member was born and it was great knowing that our two little kidlets were home (our overseas home at least) safe with someone we trusted and loved!!

The Injustice of the Eating Contest

When Mom came to visit in September she was here for a Labor Day picnic where I kinda on accident/purpose entered Chris into an eating contest (having no idea what he would have to eat) :) But anyway it ended up being pasta salad which is not Chris's favorite dish anyway but he was a trooper and stepped up to the plate (or table) I should say and chowed down....The only reason he didn't win as you can see in the second picture here is because one of the other contestants was cheating by throwing extra food on Chris's plate and he still almost won .....He's an awesome sport!

Our silly sea monster!!

I have no idea why that last post was underlined-but whatever I pushed got it go normal again here thank goodness!!

Guam in April

We took our yearly vacation in April to Guam-which when we told our family about, they said the only thing they thought about when they heard Guam was that a war was fought there....it is much more and was a welcome SMALL piece of the U.S. while we're here somewhat "marooned" on this island of sorts!! It was very tropical and relaxing.....

Long time no write!!

Sorry to all those who might check our little blog-I've forgotten to update for a little while now....well let's view some more pictures shall we!!??