Stokes in Peru

Marianella and I realize that it's inevitable-sometime in our future, we'll be on a family vacation with the boys and disinterest and boredom will be tattooed on the boys' faces and in their body language.  Perhaps it will be as we march them through a museum or seat them at a folk dance show, but it will occur and it will probably arrive sooner than we prefer.  And when that day arrives, we may just retreat to photos of this trip to Seoul, where pure joy was written across their face throughout the visit. Our primary reason for the quick flight across the Yellow Sea was to update the boys' vaccinations (okay, so not much joy was on their faces during that experience, but that was the exception),  and then we stayed a few days and soaked up what South Korea's capital has to offer a family with 14 month old twins.  The boys are still at an age where the entertainment options are limited, but they are expanding and it was wonderful to see their wonder and excite

Greetings All, When we disembarked from the airplane on our return flight to Beijing from Minnesota in early January, I exclaimed that we would not be flying the friendly skies again until necessary, which would be our return flight home in June.  After spending 18+ hours in transit with four month old twins, I would have chosen the padded cell of a sanitarium over the cramped cabin with the impatient countenance of our fellow travelers. Chillin' at the Hotel: As time distanced itself from that flight and the hazy skies of Beijing kept repeating themselves daily, Marianella and I began toying with the idea of a short trip during spring break, both to escape the bleak landscape and to refresh our memories for the longer trip that awaits in June.  Flights to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Seoul were considered, but in the end, we tabled them all.  After putting the boys to sleep at the end of each day, the prospect of planning a vacation, no matter how brief, was too much for our f