Iksan - Week 1 - Our City

Downtown Iksan

Pastor Choe and his wife, Sister Shin, have spent hours each day this week helping us get the items we need for our house.  On Wednesday, they took us to the bank to open a checking account.  It was very pleasant to see how the bank officers treated him as a VIP.  In fact, we felt pretty special just being with him.  Sheila was given a gift of cleaning products by the bank officers.

Lotte Mart

This is the large supermarket (like Wal Mart) where we have bought groceries, coat hangers, rice (pressure) cooker, toaster oven, etc.  

Gene and Pastor Choe 

Lunch

We enjoyed having lunch every day this week at different restaurants with Brother and Sister Choe, Real Korean food, except Thursday when it was PIZZA and COCA COLA.   The pizza was as good as I have ever had.  But Brother Choe went to a nearby restaurant, ordered takeout Korean food for himself and came back to the Pizza place to eat with us.  The bacon/baked potato pizza was very good but the best was the bulgogi pizza.  Two of the days we ate traditional style sitting on the floor at short tables.  

Two pastors and wives who are friends of Pastor Choe

The town where Brother Choe's daughter and son in law live

This is just a "town", it is too small to be classified as a "city".

Jeong Hee (sp?), Hugh, and Hannah have a very nice apartment in one of these high rise buildings.  

  

Moving van and household goods

Note the platform on the inclined elevator.  Where were these guys when we neeeded them at our place!!

And we did not even have Jonathon, Thomas, or Josh - Our Dudley Boys.

Hannah

Brother Choe has stated that we can be the 3rd set of grandparents.  We feel very honored to have Hannah as our honorary grandchild.