The Squarespace app has been giving me problems with long posts, and I have a lot today, so I’m going to break this up into 3 parts.
August was up at 6. By 10 he wasn’t taking a nap so we got ready to leave the house. By 11 we were on our way to the Dongdaemun History and Design complex. This is a new area that just opened a few months ago. August and I did a quick walkthrough with my parents. So it was time to head back.
Our adventure got off to a rocky start, as the only art exhibit open at the time is one on Audrey Hepburn. I didn’t think August would enjoy it to the tune of 13 bucks.
He fell asleep, which was amusing because it happened pretty instantaneously and he was a complete rag doll as I took him out of the carrier, adjusted it, and put him back in.
I went in search of coffee, but (long story short), August woke up 38 minutes later. So instead of hanging out in a coffee shop and reading while he slept, we continued on exploring.
From the morning:
He was doing this for awhile. Definitely new, but I only caught a couple seconds:
Oddly, he has never really enjoyed knocking over towers that Carly or I build. He seems know he is supposed to reach over and knock them down, but he doesn’t show any enjoyment in doing so. That changed today as he started to actually react. This was the tallest tower I built, and when he knocked it down I think he was a little startled:
And here he is, a rag doll between my legs as I concert the carrier:
So after August wakes up after 38 minutes, we start exploring the design building. This involves walking up six stories of boring boringness of the design walk spiral thing.
It strikes me as the inverse of the other major disappointing spiral walkway: the Seattle Public Library. Its book spiral was a major selling point, but I didn’t like it as it wasn’t a spiral at all. It was square. The books were nice, but you turned 90 degrees at each corner. The slanting walkway and lack of clear floors only made it difficult to know where you actually are.
Here, on the other hand, you have a wonderful spiral, but nothing that makes it worth trudging up six floors of it:
Next time:
Things get better as we find people and August acts like an extrovert.