Our friend Ben likes to go to lots of places in Korea. Since he has lived here for awhile, he decided he wanted to have a different kind of Birthday party, and he decided to have his party at the horse race track. There is a really nice park surrounding the race track so we had a picnic there, while Ben and his friends bet on some of the horses. While there Ben and his friends won over $1500. Chris and I don't really gamble, but we decided to put some penny bets down because I wanted to pretend I was in the movie MY FAIR LADY. Surprisingly, we still ended up winning about $16. Yet, that still didn't convince us to waste anymore of our money. It was a really neat experience, but also really sad. Just looking around you could see all these poor Koreans just wasting all of their money. It was really obvious. I really felt sorry for all the people who become addicted to this kind of life. Oh well, it was definitely a new experience.
Ben and his friends who won the big bucks
Cheering for my $16 win
Placing our bets
And they are off!
People camped out for the races
