Collin Condray’s Blog

Sophia has been a very busy girl. She’s been to two showers and visited all her grandparents. See what she’s been up to here, here, and here.

Also, check out the great picture of Sophia’s visit to her cousins, Kennedy and Jude. I’ll try to get up some more pictures of the family soon.

Last weekend was Sophia’s first weekend out into the wide world with new people. We took a lot of pictures of her in a lot of places. There in the gallery for you to view. Our friend Ken also got a lot of good pictures as well.

I’ve finally uploaded all the photos that we took in Korea and of Sophia after returning home. There are in the Seoul 2006 directory in the gallery.

While uploading the files, I accidentally deleted the comments that I included on some of the images. Instead of trying to recreate them, let me summarize our itinerary while in Korea:

• July 12-Leave for Korea
• July 13-Arrive in Korea
• July 14-Meet Sophia, the foster family, and the Drs. Kim
• July 15-Go to the market and visit the Chongdong Theater
• July 16-DMZ visit including a visit to the 3rd tunnel that North Korean infiltrators dug.
• July 17-Shopping for a hanbok for Sophia.
• July 18-More sightseeing and an evening with Sophia’s foster family
• July 19-Visit Deoksugung palace in the morning and the farewell prayer.
• July 20-Sophia comes home!

I’ve added a bunch of comments to the DMZ photos. I’ll try to add comments to the other photos that I’ve got when I have time. Enjoy!

We got to meet Sophia this morning! She was completely adorable in her cute little pink bow. I didn’t get any pictures of Kathleen with her but I did take about 20 minutes of video. I had some technical difficulties with getting the still photos up. Hopefully, I can also figure out how to get the video up as well soon.

The people with her are her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee. They’re a great couple who’ve spoiled Sophia rotten, for which I am thankful. Sophia was pretty well behaved. She only cried out once or twice but stopped pretty quickly once you gave her her rattle. She does like to kick and drool. Rigth now its more of the former and less of the latter but something tells me that’s not going to stay that way for long.

Then we met with Dr. Kim and Dr. Kim, a father and son team that founded the adoption society where we’re adopting Sophia from. They’ve placed 46,000 kids in the 40-odd years they’ve been in operation.

We haven’t done much else yet. The flight over was very long and we were exhausted when we got in. We tried to stay up but after we got into the hotel and got cleaned up and all of our stuff squared away, we went to sleep. We’re going to do some poking around and maybe visit the tourist attractions at the DMZ (yeah, that still sounds weird to me). Its supposed to rain a lot so we’ll see what we get done this week.

Kathleen and want to keep Sophia’s Korean name, Je In, as her middle name. However, we’re not sure what spelling we should choose. We could keep Je In but then she’d have 4 initials which is very JRR Tolkien. The other option would be to stick the names together but again we haven’t decided what looks best: JeIn or Je-In. I’ve set up a poll on the right with all the permutations for her middle name. Vote and let us know what you think!