August woke up a bit before 6. Not surprising since he went to sleep at 7 last night. What was surprising was that he seemed quite tired this morning and ended up taking a nap at 9. But it was a short nap and only 36 minutes long. And it was his only nap. He would end up staying awake more than 9 hours before going to sleep. That is a long day for the little boy.
We went to the children’s museum only to find out along the way that it is a holiday, meaning that kids were out of school. This was good for the subway as August and 2 teenagers and 7 elementary kids to entertain him on the way down. But it was bad for the children’s museum because it was a zoo.
We had fun though and lasted an hour and a half before it got too crazy and we left. We swung on the swing for several minutes then went and ate lunch outside, which was nice when it was sunny but a bit cold when cloudy and windy.
We then checked on the seals (the zoo is still closed) and walked through the conservatory to see the fish, waterfall, and banana flowers.
We left the park and took the subway north. We transferred at Taerung and went one stole east to pop out the exit, get the Seoul Trail stamps we missed, cross the street and take a bus back west.
Then we walked north to find a second hand store called The Beautiful Store. Crews were hanging Korean flags in all the poles for the upcoming Samil (March 1st) holiday. And it was windy, so August had a great walk spotting all the flags and other signs flapping in the wind.
At the store we bought a xylophone, a Pooh pillow (August picked it out), and one book.
I expected August to take a nap somewhere in here but he never did. We walked the rest of the way home and still no nap. And once home he was happy with playing and waiting for Carly to get home, chanting mama many times.
She got home and we had to work to keep him from falling asleep at first, watching his Napul Napul video, etc. but soon he was pushing his truck back and forth, etc. and made it quite handily.
Children’s museum:
Lunch out in the (mostly) sun:
Seals – the only thing we can see in the zoo:
Back north, catching up on the Seoul Trail stamps. August helped stamp Jeff’s booklet:
Korean flags going up for Samil (March 1st) AND the first dancing man I’ve seen in Seoul. With all the wind it made for a great walk for August as he could spot so many things:
Our awesome finds from the Beautiful Store:
