Olympic Park and SOMA with Meg
We went to Olympic Park and to the Millet et al show at the Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (SOMA) today.
Much of our day today seemed to involve cleaning the snot off of August’s face. And he wasn’t terribly happy in the morning and took a 35 minute nap after a couple hours. It didn’t seem to improve his mood much, but once we got outside he was a new person. And he was thrilled to see Meg and had a lot of fun with her.
We took the subway to the back (south) entrance to the park and walked to the north through the sculpture area. We went to Lotteria to get lunch before the art museum, but it was packed and the whole process took a long time.
We ate down near the lake though, which was nice, and after we were done it was clear August was ready for another nap.
We got our tickets and Carly and Meg went in while I made sure August was asleep. I only went in a couple minutes after them, but they moved kind of quickly through the show so I didn’t see them inside.
When we were all done we walked back to the subway, past the huge crowds forming for a K-Pop concert, and headed home. After we transferred we were on a Larva-themed subway for the first time.
We came home for awhile but needed to get some grocery shopping done. And August hadn’t actually gotten to do much playing yet.
So Carly did the grocery shopping and I took August to the park. August and I got to talk to a very interesting, but very difficult to follow, autistic man. I wouldn’t mention it (we talk to a lot of people I don’t end up writing about here), but he talked a lot about George H.W. Bush, Noam Chomsky, and…Howard Zinn. What are the chances of talking to an autistic Korean guy in Seoul who admires the historian your son is named after?
After that August and I walked through the art museum and then walked to the playground. He instantly wanted to start walking on the rocks and hills around the playground and did some bird spotting. When he did walk back down to the level ground he went to the exercise equipment and wanted to stand on that.
After a certain point though his tiredness became too much and he was done. I took him home and he was almost asleep a little after 6 when Carly got home. He perked up a bit though and was able to make it to 7. He has been restless in his sleep though due to his cold. Hopefully both he and Carly will be able to get some decent sleep.
First time wearing his Kermit shirt:
August loved this rope fence at Olympic Park:
By the time we left there was a huge line for the museum:
Finding mama’s elbow funny:
We got to ride one of the Larva-themed subways on the way home:
More of the Larva decorations:
Ready to go off the beaten path:
His favorite piece of exercise equipment right now. He was riding a similar machine at park #2 yesterday:
Exhausted boy, asleep early:
