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Since I’ve been home I have been pretty busy, or I should say we. I brought home a souvenir named Jessica. She’s my coteacher from Wonderland. This is her first time in America so she gets so excited about everything she sees. I’ve taken her a bunch of places with me within the past month of being home, traveling to different cities and also places around Minneapolis. I've taken her to the zoo, happy hour, mall of america, ikea, st. bens, sculpture garden, the lakes, uptown, williams, hot tubbing, meeting all of my friends, had bonfires, etc. 

Taking Mocha for a walk

Sculpture Garden with Bre and her cousin who came to MN to visit for day!

Hadley and I took Jessica to see our High School

Celebrating my Dad's Birthday, we made him a cake!

Hadley and her family had us over for a salmon dinner

Jessica made Kalie, Lori (Kalie's mom) and I kimchi soup! Jessica loves Lori!

Free cone day with Angie who came back to MN for 3 days to visit us

Jessica teaching Angie how to make Hoddeok, the sweet korean pancake desert I love

Laying in the yard enjoying a beautiful spring day with Mocha. 

We’ve gone to Duluth/Cloquet to visit my college friends Chelsea and Karley and their families. She got to see the lift bridge, lake superior, the reservation, the night sky full of stars, a deer head on a wall, etc. That was her first fun trip.

Chelsea baking her delicious bread! Baking is not common in Korea so it was fun for Jessica to bake things.

Chelsea and her parents Bev and Steve!

Steve with the deer head, Jessica asked me if that was real - once I said yes she then asked me where the body went. I told her that Steve ate it! hahah

Jessica met a BIG dog, Tropper. He's about 90 lbs or so. You can't find those in Korea... now she thinks Mocha is small, not big!

We went and saw Chelsea run a fun st. patty's day race in Duluth

Lift Bridge

We got dinner with Karley in Duluth at Pizza Luce where all the runners were.

Jay Cooke State Park in Cloquet!

            Next we went to Orlando, Florida to visit my younger sister Angie. Jessica told me she had never dreamed of coming to America let alone Disneyworld. She was smiling the whole trip there. Angie took us to Clearwater Beach the first day where we got to play in the sun and go on a “Little Toot” boat ride to see dolphins and the sunset. We spent two whole days in the Disney parks and saw all 4 of them. Between the busy park days I took her to the Premium Outlet Mall where she thought everything was so cheap and wanted to buy it all… (In Korea, American brands are extremely expensive). After I got her out of the mall, we went to a few other resorts to check it out and wander around them.

Clearwater Beach!

Found this hotel on the beach front...

Little Toot!

Epcot!

Jessica's favorite ride was Kilimanjaro Safari at Animal Kingdom!

We saw Angie working the Flower and Garden show at Epcot in front of Canada.

We stayed at Pop Century!

Chillin at the Polynesian Resort at Disney

Jess got pixie dusted while shopping in Downtown Disney

Sorcerer Jess is getting ready for Hollywood Studios...

Hollywood Studios

Angie's roommate Ashley gave Jessica a magical moment where she got to meet all of the characters one by one as they came out to greet her. Jess almost died, she was not expecting it at all. She was sooo excited!

The first to greet her was Minnie Mouse, her favorite!

High Four! 

We learned how to draw Sorcerer Mickey!

Lights, Motors, Action show!

Jessica's first view of Magic Kingdom's Cinderella Castle.

She loved it!

Wishes fireworks show!

            The last trip I took Jessica on was to Chicago. She got to meet my friend Bre who I refer to as “Wonder Woman”. Jessica loved her. I call her wonder woman because she was wonder woman at 6 flags. We got to stay and hang out with Bre in Algonquin on Friday night before heading to the city on Saturday. Jessica got to see Lake Michigan, State Street, Macy’s, Millennium Park, the bean, north beach, a few bars in Lincoln Park, etc. It was a pretty fun trip.

Bre's brother Greg and one of their family birds. They also have iguana's, a snake, a bearded dragon, and some other creatures I don't even know the names of. 

Bre with the sink desert at Colonial Cafe, don't worry we split it between four of us...

Bre's crazy tall family, Jess loved it because she said for once she didn't feel like a giant!

The Bean

Millennium Park, the flowers were gorgeous!

The riverwalk

Macy's

            Last thing to mention is that my mom got Jessica a job while we’re home coaching “soccer tots”! It consists of playing soccer games with 3-5 year olds. We actually started coaching the morning after we got home from Korea, Tuesday mornings for 2 hours with Keith. 

We've been working with kids about this age...

            Next on my list is a trip to Australia with Jessica. We’re leaving here on Tuesday, March 10^th (after our last soccer tots session of course). We’re heading to Melbourne and then figuring it out from there. Not too sure what’s on our agenda but that’s half the fun. I’ll try to make some posts from there with updates!