Coconut Travels to Korea part 1

Hello,
My name is Coconut.  I belong to a little boy named Tyson.  One day Tyson played at his grandparents house while his mom worked.  Me and my friend, George, went with him but when it was time to go home, Tyson left without us.  His grandma saw us sitting on her couch and told Tyson's mom that she would take us to Korea with her since she and Tyson's grandpa were going there the next day.  Tyson picked George up, but he let me go to Korea.

Tyson's grandma grew up in Korea so she was very excited about the trip.  Grandpa had never been there before.  I think he might have been a little nervous.  I would have been nervous, but I didn't know anything about Korea, I just knew I was safe with Grandma and Grandpa.  I learned a lot on this trip.  I'll tell you all about it, but I have to tell a little bit at a time because there is so much to tell.

I didn't know where Korea was.  I thought you could drive there, like to Grandma and Grandpa's house, but Korea is much farther away.  We got on a plane and flew for a couple of hours and then got off and waited for another plane, and then another.  The last flight was really long.  Grandma and I watched 3 movies and tried to sleep some.  It took more than all day to go to Korea.

Korea is so far away that when the sun is out at home, the moon is already out in Korea.  They are on the other side of the world, 14 hours ahead of us.

When we arrived in Korea it was late in the day, but even though we had traveled more than a whole day, it was still the same day we left Minnesota.

We took a taxi from the airport and saw a lot of the city of Seoul.  We found out later that is was a lot more of the city than we were supposed to see and that the taxi ride cost way more than it was supposed to.  The money in Korea is called Won.  It takes a lot of Won to pay for things.  It takes over 1,000 Won to make one dollar.  That can be confusing when you have to learn all those big numbers in Korean.  Later we did a better job bargaining and learned to ride the subway instead of paying for taxis.  I'll tell you about the subway later.

When we finally got to where we were staying we were on the 13th floor where we had a beautiful view of Seoul.  We were very tired, but ready to start an amazing adventure.  I'll tell you more about it later.  Keep checking back for more about my trip to Korea.