Lance's 25th birthday

Just like he does on Christmas morning, Lance made sure to wake up bright and early to get a start on opening up his gifts

 

 

Lance was pretty excited about Starcraft 2 when it came out

 

 

 

A light up Micecraft wall torch

That actually light's up and hangs on the wall. Lance is excited to hang it up with his minecraft sword and pickaxe

Stickers from his favorite show. 

 

 

All the firefly gifts he got for his birthday...or so he thought. :)

I had him open this one last. He was growing a bit impatient while I was messing around with the camera settings

He was quite surprised with this one

 

 

 

 

After Lance finished opening his gifts I told him he could make any request for breakfast and he chose stuffed french toast. 

 

After breakfast we had friends come over for a small birthday get together for Lance. With all the excitement I forgot to take pictures. 

After everyone went home I started making Lance's cake. I wanted it to be special so I made a tie dye cake!

 

It came out awesome and Lance loved it!

He was ready for me to serenade him

 

He said he made a big wish for our baby :)

 After singing happy birthday we wrapped up the night with homemade chili for dinner, a slice of cake, and a movie. Lance said he had a really great day :)

The next day, mom funded a shopping spree for Lance to go and buy whatever he wanted/needed. Since it is getting really hot here, Lance decided to buy some new shorts. He's pretty tired of wearing jeans. We also went our for dinner and a movie which was also on mom. :)

 

There was one last thing Lance and I decided to get while we were out. We still don't know the gender of the baby but they (he or she) are going to have a jungle themed nursery either way so we picked up a few things. We should be finding out the gender at our next sonogram appointment in about 2 weeks. 

The shells Lance and I found at the beach

These are all the shells we found when we went to Mallipo Beach.

                                           We put our favorite ones here and the rest in a clear vase

Our first trip to Mallipo beach

 First things first. Lance and I were finally able to find an English GPS for Korea thank goodness! Without this we would have never made it to Mallipo! We've named her Bonnie.  :) 

So here are some pictures from the drive. 

A couple of interesting Hotels.

 

Lots and lots of apartments. 

 

More apartments.....

 

And more apartments which Lance and I agreed were quite hideous. 

 

There aren't many houses in South Korea but every once in a while you can find houses that are enormous. I almost didn't believe this was a house. We passed quite a few beautiful homes on the way to Mallipo. 

 

A random statue. We weren't sure what it was a statue of, but it was huge. 

 

And after just an hour and a half of driving we finally made it!

 

 

The beach was beautiful.

 

We found lots of starfish. 

 

 

Lance and I walked along the beach for about an hour collecting shells. We found some really cool ones but I forgot to take pictures of them. I did manage to get a picture of a shell with a little guy still in there. It popped out a few times but quickly went back inside his shell.  I don't think he liked us very much.

 

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Lance and I posing next to the Mallipo entrance.

 

 

After our walk on the beach we stopped to have some lunch at a pizza place run by Koreans who also lived in the back of the restaurant.

 

Lance was busy reading all the Korean signs in the restaurant.

 

After lunch we decided to head down to the lighthouse and the boardwalk.

 

 

 

 

We found little love notes scratched into the wood

  

After we left the boardwalk we found an epmty  area out of the way so we climbed down the rocks and sat there for a while. 

 

We left this little area and found a few carnival rides. All of them were for little kids except one ship ride that swings you high into the air. So we rode that which was awesome because we got to see a beautiful view of the ocean from really high up while having the crap scared out of us :)  On our way out we also found ziplines right next to the beach. We would have tried that out today but I was too scared. Maybe next time though.

We really enjoyed our first trip to Mallipo and we can't wait to go in the summer.