August slept late – until 9:25 – which was good, but the last two and a half hours was with him in my arms as he was rather restless with a stuffy nose.
When he did wake up and we had breakfast, we hopped a bus to eMart and got his prescriptions. We then went to the playground near eMart and played in the sand for awhile and took his medicines.
Since it was Buddha’s Birthday, we took the subway up to Dobongsan and Bukhansan National Park to visit a couple of the temples and see what was going on.
He fell asleep soon after we got to the park, and I found a nice napping spot near a temple. I sat on the edge of what used to be an old (and probably very cold) swimming pool built into a stream that has now been filled in. I got a lot more reading done and even napped myself for a few minutes with August laying on my chest. The only negative was when a woman came over and literally started pulling and shaking his arm. I had to push her arm away and shoo her away.
He slept for 110 minutes, after which he played with the leaves and rocks, he ate lunch, and he played some more.
We then walked up to a temple and looked around. August really liked all of the lanterns and other decorations.
We then headed back down the hill, stopping to refill out water bottles at a spring.
Finally, we visited the temple near the entrance to the park. We watched a few minutes of some Buddhist chanting and music. A really nice woman gave us some dok (a rice pastry thing) and then the women selling small paper lanterns gave August an orange lantern. I tried to pay, but they wouldn’t accept my money.
We then headed home after a peek into the iris garden and changing him in the station.
We got home late – a little after 5:30. He had a lot of fun playing this evening. We used a sheet like the parachute from his class – it was pretty clear he was remembering the class as he raised and lowered the sheet and looked under it the same way he would in class.
We played a little Endless Alphabet for the first time in several days and he really liked ‘dizzy’. He can say it quite well. We will see if it quickly becomes one of his words.
Playground:
Nap spot:
Temples:
August really liked the white lanterns. I think because they were at his height and he could see the wind move them and their petals:
