Sprint through Seoul

I have been absent. But with very good reason. We just spent a week at the beach with limited internet. But I am back in the land of wifi, and have many stories to share.

Our adventure started with just getting there.

We flew from Shanghai to Seoul, then Seoul to Bali. Almost 3 hours to Seoul and then from Seoul to Bali was 8 hours. We flew a new airline, Korean Air. And I have nothing but good great things to say about them. On-demand TV, kids' meals, and enough leg room. But transferring in Seoul?

Was a nightmare.

We had an hour and a half. Which would seem like enough time. But our plane was slightly delayed, and when we got off we had to wait in this incredibly long line to go through security. As we stood in this group that was not exactly a line, people got ugly. Name calling, cursing at others, and just general nastiness. YIKES. And all the while, the line was going nowhere and we were running out of time. I stayed in line, while Andy searched for someone to help us out. After talking to several not-so-helpful people, finally one attendant showed us that there might be another security line. We ran down a hallway, found the other security that had no line. As we went through security, we heard the final call for our flight. Ran down another hallway, and gasping made it on to the plane.

The flight was uneventful, but we arrived in Bali at 1:30AM. But the fun was not over yet. As I waited at the luggage carousel, I saw a sign with our name on it that we needed to report to the service desk (never a good sign). Neither of our bags had arrived. We waited in another line and after another 30 minutes, one of our bags arrived. Another 15 minutes in line, we found out that our other bag would not arrive until the next day. Of course, it was the bag with the kids' and my clothes in it. We got through immigration, found a taxi and got to our hotel at 2:30AM.

You can imagine the state of the kiddos. Honestly, you can imagine the state I was in. But our mantra the whole time: Just get there and tomorrow the beach. (And we said it many times throughout the day!)