Um holy hell, I got married like a week and a half ago?!
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| Argh if only there was some way to know the exact date |
The ceremony went really well! My biggest fear leading up to the wedding was not the thought of being married, but rather the thought of having some major technical glitch that totally ruined everything. I had a horrible vision of trying to speak into a microphone that didn't work while everyone just stared at me with this look of embarrassment and contempt before eventually leaving to go watch something more interesting, like a...shoe, or whatever. But that didn't happen! Everything worked out great, the venue was beautiful, my parents and younger brother flew in from Canada (hello!) and I got married to the most amazing woman in the world.
The whole week was pretty great in fact. Chloe and I took my family out to the DMZ, though unfortunately the JSA area was closed. But it was really cool to return to the area surrounding the border. The seemingly endless tension between North and South Korea doesn't come up much in my day to day life, and it's interesting to think that all of those fortifications and barriers and military checkpoints are always there, always manned, not that far away from where I live now.
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| Freedom bridge |
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| Looking across the river into North Korea |
We also went out to visit Chloe's parents at their house in Gapyeong so they were finally able to meet my family. We had an amazing lunch at a traditional restaurant in the area which was styled like an old fashioned log building.
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| I can sit cross legged on the floor for about 15 minutes before half of my body goes numb forever |
And we may have had a couple drinks.
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| Tyler, trying his best to adapt to Korea's relaxed open liquor laws |
You know, eventually I'm gonna be wrapping this blog up and looking back on everything that's happened these past few years, and I think it is going to absolutely explode my brain. The day before I left Canada I bought a small bottle of caffeine pills because I was worried I wouldn't be able to find or order a cup of coffee easily enough, but look at me now! I'm married and about 75% of the time I can order a cup of coffee just fine without knocking something over or causing an international incident. But I'll save all that reflecting for another day.
So that's the good stuff! Other than that life has been pretty normal. It's been warmer lately which means more biking to work and I think I've already lost some weight as a result. Work has been, ah...you know, I'm gonna do a whole long post about work at a later date, so from now on I'm just not gonna mention it that much in these posts. There's nothing to worry about in any case; things are exactly the same as they've always been.
I've been continuing my project of taking photos and being a bit more appreciative of the everyday things that make living in Korea so awesome. It was interesting having my parents and brother here because it gave me some time to re-experience the country through their eyes. They would ask Chloe or I questions about things and I would suddenly realize, "Oh that's right, this stuff was all new to me at one point too." A lot of stuff I've been taking for granted for years suddenly seemed fresh and exciting again, but also made me a bit wistful thinking about how it's all gonna end one of these days.
Ahh I'm in a bit of a mood, getting all nostalgic in here. It's been a really good few weeks to be honest - nothing to complain about on my end. Maybe this is a good place to wrap up? Just one more thing, kind of a note to future me:
Hey Justin. At some point you're going to start taking for granted that at the end of every exhausting, stressful, emotionally depleting day at work, you get to come home to this amazing person who loves you. Do us both a favour and remember how you feel, now, that you get to do that every day. Remember how great it was when it was new. Don't let that change.
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