Lovely weather today, so after August took a short nap this morning we took the department store gift certificate and a gift card we had and hopped the train headed north. We went to a small city just north of Seoul called Uijeongbu. August and I had been there twice before: the first time in the rain only to find the department store closed, and the second time where we looked around and played in the kid cafe there. I needed Carly with me to help pick stuff out through and I had picked up a map and guidebook to the city.
So this time we started by walking through some of the nice streets in the city’s downtown. It turns out there is a military base up there as there were a bunch of Koreans in uniform and a lot of American-looking foreigners as well. We ate lunch at Pizza Hut (August wasn’t too fond of sitting at the table, so we took turns walking him around – he liked looking out at the busy street below) and then shopped at the large ArtBox store they had there. The main shopping street was notable because it was a pedestrian street, had some lovely trees down the middle, and had sculptures dotted throughout.
August was getting tired so we headed to the department store as we wanted to change him before he fell asleep. Carly nursed and changed him and he fell asleep. That allowed us to do our shopping. We could have walked away with hundreds of dollars of cool toys, but alas our certificates weren’t for that much. We did pretty well though, getting a Pororo figure, a container of plastic fruits and vegetables, a set of blocks, and one of those square wooden activity things with moving parts on every side and wire loopy things out the top.
He was still asleep so we went and sat in a coffee shop called Carpe Diem in the train station and read. Not a busy place, but horrible acoustics. When a large group came in it got incredibly loud. We did okay, but it was funny to exit out into the busy subway station and be happy about how quiet it was.
Came home and opened the last toy, only to find it is missing one of the four blocks that go with it. Not major, but it was the nicest and most expensive toy we got. So August and I will probably head back up there sometime this week. Ugh.
We then walked to Home Plus to do some grocery shopping: food for dinners and also a new blender as our old one died a few months back.
August only slept 9 (or less) hours and took a short/average nap this afternoon, so today was the earliest he’s fallen asleep all week: 8:15ish.
Morning:
Uijeongbu:
Walking home from Home Plus:
Evening:
