July 27, 2011 : 2011년 7월 27일

Well, the boys are literally exhausted today.  They played SO hard yesterday.

It started Monday night when they went to Keun Omma's house so that they could get up early for the Harry Potter matinee on Tuesday morning (8:30 AM).

This is Minji and Jinhyung having dinner (~10:30 PM) before dying their hair black.  They accidentally ought the kind of dye to cover gray, but it changed their hair to black, and they were satisfied (their hair is naturally a very dark reddish-brown),

BJ and AJ are sleeping, but they were very excited about the movie.  AJ was up before 6:00 AM and BJ was up not long after.

Here's a good one of Minji and BJ...

Here are the boys jumping the chairs while we wait to buy popcorn.  Jinhyung restrained himself for the camera but resumed jumping as soon as I put it down.

And here is a bit of the wand fighting that ensued after the movie:

Then we went to the playground...

while we waited for our favorite donkatsu place to open (this picture is from the other day--they still all remember BJ!).

Afterward we met our firends from our old apartment complex.  We had lots of fun with them in the house:

on the playground:

and then in front of the museum playing with traditional Korean toys--

traditional Korean tops...

And swordfighting with these small javelins...

that are supposed to be thrown into these black urns on the right.

Then they went back and played with Minji nuna and Jinhyung hyung, both with newly black hair that really stands out in these pictures:

Here are the boys playing video games (which they are not supposed to do)...

and Minji sneaking a peek at TV on her mom's cell phone (which she is also not really supposed to do--but today was special, so it was okay.)

Then we walked to the playground to the music of the cicadas (if you listen closely, you can hear AJ telling them they're too loud.).

BJ and Jinhyung played a little soccer:

And AJ tried desperately to catch the bar for the big boys (alas, we are still not there yet...):

Then when we got home, their great-aunt and uncle had brought peaches and plums!

Is it any wonder that they can hardly move today?