Managed to give August a bath this morning. Not that he was too fond of it.
After his nap he ate a huge lunch – ate more than 3 strawberries, some apple, broccoli, and all the canned salmon I had set aside for him.
We packed up and took the subway to Taerung and transferred to a bus headed east. We went past the Taerung royal tomb (where we had been twice before, once with Carly) a few stops to the Gongneung royal tomb. Not a huge area, but plenty for August and I to explore. We walked around first, and August got really excited when he would spot magpies. He would hear one, try to find it, and when he saw it he would shriek and point with both hands. Very cool to see as he has until recently found it difficult to tell which direction a sound is coming from. He successfully did it at least three times with the magpies.
And he really liked the big metal sign in front of the tomb. It was pretty much identical to the sign he enjoyed kicking while in the carrier with the cover at the other tomb. He was bigger this time, so no need to reach out with his feet, and he was also pointing to the pictures of food on the sign and saying ‘baa’ (as they looked like balls).
We then found a picnic table and he ate pretty much all the food we had with us. He then explored the area, walking around (he particularly liked going through the deep leaves and up and down hills), sitting on the moss and looking at stuff, and doing more walking.
He even saw a ghost: he was standing near the stone path, looking at/across it, and started to wave. At no one. I asked him who he was waving to and he pointed. And kept pointing. Several times. He wouldn’t walk forward when I tried to get him to, and eventually (after a couple minutes) sat down. He pointed one last time, lost interest, and started playing in the dirt. I believe he was actually just fascinated by a leaf blowing across the ground, but it was quite a coincidence.
Anyway, he explored for about an hour and then we left. We walked just to the west and went into Samyoong University. I realized I needed to change him. Luckily, a shady spot in the grass out of the way wasn’t too hard to find.
We then went to the university museum. We started at the top and worked out way down. First I realized it was a Seventh Day Adventist church. Then they had floors on biblical archeology and bible study/history (this floor actually had an impressive collection of Bibles in different languages and editions).
Then we get to the first floor, where they have fossils and minerals. First I notice none of them have ages on them. Then I find the only mention of age on the floor – a sign that explains most fossils were from 6000 years ago.
And that is how I took August to his first, and hopefully last, creationist museum. And contrast that museum with the funky (but accurate) natural history museum at Kyunghee University (which is a Christian university, but obviously not SDA).
After that we walked through much of the rest of the campus (which is really quite nice). We saw the greenhouse and went into the entrance of the art building. August liked the sculpture of colored pencils out front, and he really liked the apples hanging from the ceiling inside. He spent several minutes batting at them and was upset when we left.
We headed home from there. Got home at 5:20 something, just a few minutes before Carly.
Morning:
At the tomb:
University museum. The history is actually quite interesting:
Oh, really:
Art building:
