New Year's Day

on New Year's day, Phil's parents arrived in the morning and had the traditional duk guk with us. we also did jul, which really appealed to Skye when she learned that she could actually make money by doing jul! jul is a bowing ceremony that's done on New Year's day in Korea. the younger people bow to the elders and the elders hand out money. i remember as a young child in Korea, we would visit my mother's family on New Year's day and she had a large family and the jul got rather long, but i did make lots of money! :)

here is Skye doing jul to her grandparents



in the evening, we headed over to one of our neighbour's house for a neighbourhood party.

it was hard to get all the kids to cooperate...