Thursday

Life has gone on as usual here in South Korea.  I understand that North Korea presents a serious situation, but we are honestly very unconcerned about yesterday's events....unconcerned about our safety that is.  The shelling took place on Yeonpyeong Island, near the disputed Yellow Sea border between the two Koreas.  The island is approximately 75 miles off the shoreline of Incheon, which is about an hour's drive away from Seoul.  Once arriving in Seoul, it would take 2.5 hours to get to Yeongju by bus.  All that to say that we're a long way from there.  We're also shielded by mountains in every direction.  We're fine.  We wouldn't even know anything had happened if we hadn't seen the American media outlets.  Like I said, its a serious situation, but the folks at home are probably more spooked by the news than we are.  But don't worry, we'll leave should it become necessary.

Now that that's out of the way, we can move on to Thanksgiving, or lack there of.  Today is Thursday, but it's just another day here.  We had planned to go visit the DMZ this coming weekend, but obviously we changed our minds.  I think we'll go to Daegu instead and enjoy Starbucks again.