To conclude our travel time, we arrived at the airport in Icheon about a half hour late. We went through immigration without any problem and proceeded to get our bags. I sat with Gabriel as he was rather tired and Josh got all the bags. We thought that the guy from the school, Sandy, would meet us there, but after 20 minutes of waiting we decided to go look for him. Well we found our that we made an oops and we still had to make it through customs before we got to the greeting area.
In the greeting area there were a ton of people holding up signs for other people but our name was not on any of them. Well we decided to wait there for Sandy in case he was looking for us, it was after all about an hour from when our plane was supposed to have landed. We waited about 15-20 minutes and no one was coming... oh crap! We went to go look for a pay phone to call him and just as we were about to put money in the pay phone he found us! YAY, we can finally go now... right? WRONG! No, first we have to go find this girl, Megan, who had come with Sandy and had gone off by herself to look for us. After we found Megan we though good, now we can go, but we were wrong again! Megan noticed that one of the names on our bags didn't match Josh or I... Oh no we have the wrong bag!!! CRAP! So Sandy and Megan take off to fix the problem and I remembered that Josh had the luggage tickets so I him him after them. So there I was, with two carts full of luggage and a crabby 7 month old all by myself... lovely.
Gabriel then decided then that he was hungry and made it very known that he was so. So I made a circle with the luggage close to a wall and sat on the floor to feed him. In my time of sitting there I found out two things... one the sound of an automated escalator saying "for the safety of all passengers please stay in the yellow line" over and over again can make you go crazy and two, that Korean people have no problem starring, especially the creepy guards with their huge machine guns. I felt like a circus on the floor that people couldn't keep their eyes off of! Finally everybody came back I could stop being everybody's apparent freak show.
Supposedly another girl took our bag and headed to Busan, South Korea... so the airline was going to get our bag back and send it to us. Josh had also taken her bag thinking it was ours because I guess he was only looking at the first letter of the name on the tag because he was tired and her name was Kelly. So we finally made it to our car about 2-2.5 hours after our plane was supposed to land. We then had a two hour drive out to the English Village with a quick stop along the way to get some food. Yay we finally made it!
Unfortunately we were not able to move into our apartment that night, we had to stay in a studio type apartment for a couple of days first. We went to bed that night so excited to get some sleep after 30 hours of traveling, that was at about 10PM... only for Gabriel to wake us up at 3AM wide awake! This happened the next night as well but has slowly gotten better, this morning he woke up around 6AM!
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