It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . .

Here we are kicking off the holiday season in a new land. Although it is celebrated, it already is nothing like the states. There aren't any huge shopping sales. No mad dashes to the store the day after Thanksgiving. And, although they have Christmas decorations, the stores devote about 10 square feet to the sale of all things that make it look like Christmas. So, we went on a hunt to find a tree and trimmings. What we found is, if we wanted to spend Chris' entire monthly paycheck on making it look festive, we could. Trees and decorations are expensive. That meant we had to get creative. We headed off to the craft store and bought some green construction paper. Then, we came across some bulbs and lights pretty cheap at the 1,000 won store (Korea's version of the Dollar Store). We spent the day cutting and punching and taping and VIOLA, a tree. I will say, it turned out pretty good. Grace loves doing crafts so this was right up her alley.