An excerpt from an email from Jake

I got an email from Jake in Korea. I thought it was interesting and that you all might like to hear about his adventure, so here is an excerpt:

Jim and Mark and I went out this afternoon. We walked up and down the few blocks of the International Market and got roped into some $5 budweisers. Then we had $5 coffee at Starbucks. Then we went to a nice hotel for dinner, and had the Authentic Korean dish, with lots of weird smelly things, and a few beers (just one for me) and our bill was almost $200!!!!. Then we walked up to the casino upstairs. I was very nice, very small and quiet. It's a Monday night after all. I didn't gamble because I only had $15 left after dinner and coffee and beer (started the night with $80) but had fun watching jim and mark. Then we walked to the department store which had just closed, and walked around the block checking out the stores and street vendors. Lots of "meat-on-a-stick" vendors. Yuk. Then we caught a cab back and found a bunch of people at the Seaman's Club just outside the gate. The MKCS was inside singing drunken-dirty sea shanties. So I came back to the ship to email you.

Wednesday we plan to hit the aquarium. 1000 of their monopoly monies equals one dollar of our money and change. So 100 American gets you 100,099 funny-monies. It's weird. I have to go brush my teeth before I go to bed, I have kimchee breath... it's nasty, you wouldn't want to kiss me lol.

I love you and will talk to you on Wednesday unless you let me know otherwise.

Husband
xoxoxox