On the Road Again!

We have now moved back into the driving world! OK so Jennifer has, Patrick still doesn't have his Korean licence but we do have our OWN CAR! With Sugar Bean #2 coming along, we were ready to be mobile on our own again. We got a 2003 Hyundai Trajet. It sits 9 people so we have plenty of room to bring you along with us for a ride!


Our cars is souped up with a sunroof, GPS system, and a TV in the dashboard that will play DVDs as well as pick up Korean television.

I need to take a picture of the stickers on our car. Apparently it was a car for a business so it has words on the back window that apparently a Korean tried to write in English. It makes absolutely no sense. It's quite comical actually. Next week, we are having the stickers removed.

Our car buying experience has been quite interesting. We are very blessed and spoiled to work for a school that helps us out with these things. Mr. Koo, who is in charge of transportation at our school and our headmaster's personal driver, helped us look for a car and I am pretty sure he bargained well for us. He would go out and look for cars and have his friend look for what we wanted and then bring it to us at school. We went out to the huge car lot one day which is probably the only place in Korea where you can find cars parked in a large flat area and not a parking deck. There were thousands of cars in one place that belonged to a variety of car dealers. You just walked around the lot, looked at the cars from the outside and then called the dealer if you wanted to look inside one. Most of the dealers just walked around smoking and we even saw one man who was helping someone use the bathroom right there on the lot! Gotta love Korea!

Once he found a good car for us, he processed all our paper work, filed for our insurance and tags. I had to go with him to the registration office but I spent the time observing everything from my chair while he and the dealer did all the work. Every now and then he would come over to tell me something or have me sign a paper. In the end, we had a new car but I had no idea how it had happened!

Come on over and we would be glad to take you for a spin in our new wheels! :)