We took a long bus ride (90 minutes) to a complex of parks on the west side of Seoul. Kind of an amazing area on what used to me a landfill:
Waking up in the morning:
Sleeping on the bus ride over:
Lunch:
Walking:
We circled much of the park first, then found the long staircase (over 400 steps) to the top. We walked around, stopping in two places to rest, have a drink, and play. He really loved the second spot because of a broom that was swaying in the wind:
The view of the Han was quite spectacular and there were some cool sculptures:
Back down another side of the hill we came across a Seoul Art Museum residency program that has a little sculpture garden. We made our last stop to drinks/change/play:
We had fun tapping this sculpture with our hands to make noise and looking at our reflections in it:
And he enjoyed feeling the texture of the trees and other sculptures:
As August touched the last one above, I realized his hand was a foot and a half away from this spider and my head was closer. The spider was 3 to 4 inches long. We will practice looking before touching from now on:
On our walk back to the bus, we walked past a power plant (I think it might run off of gasses from the landfill – I need to look into that). We found one of August’s favorite things, a fountain:
Carly had beaten us home, so we Skyped with her for a couple minutes while walking from the bus to home. This was the first time we have Skype with August where he could really get excited about seeing the other one of us in the screen:
Stay tuned for our next exciting episode as August tours an art museum with three dozen high school girls.