In Sickness and in Health...

Sometime around Tuesday, we began our THIRD year of marriage. Can you belive it? It doesn't seem that long ago that Ben convinced me that he needed to learn how to use his new camera. I fell for it--it was a disposable. Needless to say, two years after our beautiful wedding, we are still going strong.

Well, sort of. We've actually been quite sick this week, which put a bit of a damper on our anniversary. On Sunday, before we felt too bad to do anything but sleep and work, Ben took me out for dinner to celebrate. We were both in for a delicious treat!

We went to a fancy Italian restaurant, where we almost forgot that we were in Korea. The meal was delicious...

all five courses of it!


The only thing that seemed Korean was the portions of some of the dishes. Koreans usually have a lot of food, but it is mostly small side dishes. Perhaps it was the gourmet look they were going for with this spaghetti.

But, they made up for it with the STEAK...yum!

So, we had a 'real' Italian meal, with 'real' coffee and something like Tirimisu at the end.

It was great...and then we went home and got some much needed sleep.
After having some peanut M&Ms sent from home.


The good news: we FINALLY went to the doctor on Saturday, after a week of teaching with a sore throat and, for Ben, with no voice. If we would have known that the price of going to the doctor's office was going to cost us about $3 each, we would have gone a lot sooner. And, we each got medicine (15 pills a day for 5 days) that cost $5 each. Yes, that is right, we paid about $16 for walking right in to a doctor's office to see an English-speaking doctor, who gave us a prescription all within a half hour. I am now a believer in good National Healthcare Systems--wow!