And so it begins...!

We drove to the Port of Baltimore to say goodbye to the van yesterday. I miss it already!

And movers come tomorrow, so I am packing suitcases that we will live out of for the next 2 months. As you can see, they are pretty huge!

Mark and Cleo leave Sunday, after packers and movers and Regional Championships all this week. I'm tired just thinking about it.

Pack to packing I go...

Woo hoo! Getting so excited now. We bought massive suitcases (I'll post pictures of Rowan inside one soon!) and cleaned out the playroom. Getting c-l-o-s-e-r!! To bide the time and distract me from just worrying about everything I need to do, I have been perusing Flickr's Korea photos. These are from there- not mine! Above, Seoul.

What I am looking forward to most- FOOD! I totally plan to eat my way throughout the country. I've gone so far as to make a list of regional specialties from all over Korea, and the plan is to travel and eat, travel and eat.

First stop is Namdaemun Market in Seoul, as per the girls' request. I made the mistake of saying it opens at like 3 am, so if we were messed up from the time change, we could go there. So now the girls are banking on a 3 am trip to Namdaemun. It's beyond description really- you'll have to wait for photos.

More great photos of Namdaemun are here if you are bored!

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Namdaemun%20market&w=all&s=int

A great Ohio meet this weekend!

We were in Columbus, Ohio for a rhythmic meet this weekend, and it was great! Here is Gryphon, with medals- wahoo!

Rowan won 1st in every event and all around, first time she's ever totally swept all events, though she has been 1st all around before. She sort of looks bored in this picture, I believe she is thinking "Yeah, yeah, I know. I totally rock."

And...they got a *trophy*!!!!!!!

Now, our gym has lots of trophies, but not one of them for the rhythmic team. They are for the artistic girls and boys teams, which seem to get big honkin trophies for everything. Rhythmic never, ever gives out trophies. But they did team awards at this meet, they combined the top 3 scores from each team in the level, and our team got 2nd place! So now there is a trophy, woo hoo!

Next meet is (gulp) Regional Championships. Then maybe Junior Olympics and then...Korea!

Rowan photos (aka circus freak)

I really love the cool "s" shape her body makes here. Not so much the rug in the foreground, but I'm hoping a frame will cover it, because I can't crop this any different. Whoops.

This looks sort of easy. But when I tried it, my foot was like 3 feet from my head. Go ahead, try it. Ouch.

These are too blown out, but good shots otherwise unfortunately. Gryphon is a dream to photograph- nice facial expressions. Rowan always looks crazy or mentally challenged. All the other shots of these poses are- you guessed it- in the crazy category.

I am pretty sure that if you do this stuff long enough, eventually your body just stays this way. And you have to walk around bent in half, with your head hanging to your bum. Lets hope I'm wrong about that.

These photos were *so* fun to take. I am constantly amazed at what her beautiful little body can do. You should see the girl's abs- she has a 6 pack!! So much fun.