I had initially planned to go hiking today, but that fell through. So the decision to head to Insadong took some time. But in the morning I was reading a Sophie book to him, and he recognized Kiwi the bird. Also, he has learned ‘upside down’, as Carly was holding him upside down yesterday.
Anyway, we headed to Insadong around 10. We got of the subway and first went to Tapgol Park. I let August get down and play while they looked around. He tripped as he started to walk to Cherie and scraped both knees. After washing them off, he was mainly interested in the pigeons, saying ‘hi dulgi’ and following them. He sort of scared off a couple, so I was holding his hand and we were carefully walking close to them when another kid came and scared them. Think it will be difficult to keep him from chasing the birds as he sees kids do it all the time here.
We walked up Insadong. Had August down at first but that was too hard, so put him in the backpack. Not everything was open, due to Chuesok, but Chuck and Cherie were successful. The saddest part, for me at least, was that all the art museums and galleries were closed. At the end of Insadong we walked around the corner and down to the temple. August fell asleep as I walked up to it.
We sat on some steps west of the temple while he slept and I read. I also walked around the temple and looked at more of the artwork while the others sat by him. We were given som sangpyeong and then bought more ourselves – fresher and better than the stuff from his class last Tuesday.
He woke up after 50 minutes a little after 12:30. We went to the little park west of the temple so he could nurse. While there, he got to see an orange cat hanging out there, and some nice people gave Chuck and Cherie some more food.
We then went in search of food. We went up to the burger place by the MMCA art museum, but it has turned into a furniture store. We walked by the museum and went behind it, walking up the narrow street, and found a Chicago Pizza and Pub on the second floor of a building. The food was good – we got sweet potato fries and a spinach and cheese pizza. August really liked the sweet potato fries.
From there we walked down the narrow street and took the subway from Anguk Station. In the evening he was playing with Cherie on her phone, and saw a photo of her doctor in the address book. He would click on the photo and wave and say “Hi, doctor.” Around 7 I felt like getting outside a bit, so I took August out. We spent a few minutes by the fish tanks at the restaurant because he kept saying “kid, kid, kid” and I figured out he meant ’squid’. And he really like looking at the eel, which is right at his level. From there we went into the park and walked around a bit, watched kids on the swings, used his shovel to put sand on bushes, threw away some garbage, and pushed buttons on the vending machines.
We went home and gave him a bath, and he was asleep around 8.
Upside down, Kiwi, find mama, Oma shop, Oma bathroom, Oma hiding, carry me, dada’s bathroom, hi doctor, Snoozers, squid (kid), eel
Morning:
Tapgol Park:
Temple:
Chicago Pizza and Pub:
A little shoveling in the dark:
