Going into this week, this is what my ‘Pending’ list looked like:

1. Return of security deposit for the apartment in Cayman
2. Full payment for one of the Jeeps in Cayman
3. Unlock and activate the two LIME phones from Cayman onto a Korean mobile phone company
4. Sell my Eagles season tickets and try to recoup this years costs

Excellent news came this week — so the list now looks like:

1. Return of security deposit for the apartment in Cayman
2. Full payment for one of the Jeeps in Cayman
3. Unlock and activate the two LIME phones from Cayman onto a Korean mobile phone company
4. Sell my Eagles season tickets and try to recoup this years costs

Long story short: I wanted to be a mensch and pay for two unlocks from my mobile phone company in Cayman and not just run out on my contract.  I was concerned that I was going to pay this substantial sum and then the company (as was its history) wouldn’t be able to fulfill its promise.  Well, my prophecy came true when only Jenn’s managed to be unlocked before leaving the juristiction.  After a month of back and forth and people trying to get it done, emails stopped being returned.  I emailed the CEO.  Magically, a DHL was in the mail that day.  It arrived a couple of days later.

The trip to the Korean mobile phone company was scheduled.  And soon after:

Hooray for SK Telecom and LTE!

We should have expected that something would be awry, and Jenn’s phone wasn’t quite right.  I took it to TUVA, an iPhone Authorized Center and James worked on it.

After a full restore, success!

It was a glorious day for the internet age!  All hail LTE!  Both of us are connected again and FourSquare will never be safe again.

Meanwhile, in our travels over the ordeal, we went to Daily King’s Diner for some ‘All American Food’  On Wednesday night.

Yeah, not so sure on that one, but the decor was awesome.

Thursday, as I was leaving TUVA, my nose caught a whiff of baking that I’ve never smelled before.  It was like sweet heaven… I had to know what it was.  So I Toucan Sam-ed my way around the office building and finally found it.

I bought a few pastry and the fact that I haven’t eaten them yet is a miracle.

On my travels that day I spotted another Mexican place that I added to the to-do list:

And walked through a park with what I guess you’d have to call a sculpture, right?

Rounded out the day with a new friend where we saw this Konglish:

There are so many of these gems out there, that starting another blog just for them would be too easy… Instead, I’ll just post them as I see them.

Just another day in the RoK.