(WAL) E-MART

We went to Yongsan Station (1 stop away from our station, Ichon) and it has their version of Wal-Mart in it. It's called E-Mart. It's not super-big, but nothing around here is. The garbage trucks are so small, they'd be full after 2 streets in Nebraska. Everything is smaller here, because they have to save room. Anyway, it wasn't laid out like Wal-mart, either, but the place was interesting. They actually sold Coleman camping gear and it was twice the price of the stuff you'd get a Cabelas. Some of the clothes were a cheaper, and then we went downstairs in the grocery portion. WOW. Everything was really expensive. No wonder they don't want you to buy stuff at the Commissary and resell it in the Black Market. Orange juice by the gallon $7. Produce was really high too. Watermelons were $10-13. Maybe it was because everything is in Won that it seemed like more, because it's 1,000 Won to the Dollar. But it still seemed high to me. Everything smelled like fish down there anyway.
And pushing a stroller with a red-headed baby in it gets you all kinds of looks. Everyone thinks that Violet is so cute. They wave and she's starting to wave back and some get their cel phones and take pictures of her. It's really funny. She's going to hate leaving here.
We only need the rest of our stuff because the kids are bored sitting at home with no toys or bicycles and we're still looking for a routine. And it rains every other day since it's monsoon season. Still, it's different and good for the kids to see. We get on the train and hear people speaking Korean and I wonder if I'll ever pick up the language here. It's not like Spanish, which is Latin-based and you have to learn 4 more letters. Hangul has 24 characters and they don't look like anything you'd recognize, and they're consistent at least, but once you learn the words, you have to learn what they mean, so that's 2 steps. But we'll work on it as a family.