Hot, Humid, Wet

I know that every single time I have posted for about the last two months it has been about the weather, but because of "it" there is not much else to talk about.  The heat and humidity or the humidity and the rain don't give us much desire to do much sightseeing or even taking a walk through one of the many parks.  Typhoon Bolaven will likely hit us on Tuesday bringing us even more rain.  We are hopeful that the first weekend of September will finally bring fall! Our excitement for the week this time was actually getting cable television!  We get several English channels including History, Discovery, National Geographic Travel, a few movie channels and some others.  It's even interesting to watch the news after only being able to read about it for the last six months, AND we don't even have to sit through the political ads (most of the commercials are in Korean even on the English channels).

So since cable is not that interesting to talk about and neither is walking around the mall just for something to do like we did Saturday and Sunday, let me tell you about how we do some grocery shopping in Korea.  In addition to going to the store just like home, we also do some of our grocery shopping online (especially for meat).  Since our freezer is very small we are not able to order very much meat at a time so if we go to a meat store to buy it we would have to go frequently.  Instead, we are able to pick what we want online (as frequently as we want), pay for it through a wire transfer at the bank (with a fee of less than 50 cents), and within one or two days a styrofoam cooler box with a lot of ice packs is waiting for us when we get home, meat still frozen.  It looks like this: 

 

The delivery with cooler fee is about $1.  So between that and the wire transfer fee it costs less money to have our food delivered than it would for just one of us to take the subway to a meat market and back, not to mention the time!