We packed everything up in the morning and went down for our now-usual breakfast at Starbucks. August got to try some of Chuck’s cinnamon roll, which he really liked, saying ’cinnamon’ several times.
We plugged a beach out east, Woljeong Beach, into the iPhone and GPS and headed out there. Took about 45 minutes. At the beach, he first went out wading in the water with me, then went up and was playing with (destroying) the sand castle that Carly and Cherie had made. We spent a lot more time in the water – he got more and more comfortable, and I took off his shorts as he was getting farther in.
I saw a shipping boat heading out on the water and pointed it out to him, saying it was going out to sea. He really liked the phrase, and kept saying “out to sea.” Awhile later, Carly had a bottle or something and August saw a ‘C’ on it. He pointed to it and said ‘C’, then pointed out at the ocean and said ‘sea’.
Chuck and Cherie had gone for a walk along the beach, and while doing so started picking up garbage. When they came back, August joined in in picking up garbage. One of the things they had brought back was a mess of buoys. So Cherie taught him the word ‘buoy’, which he says with his big round O sounds.
A little past noon we figured it was time for lunch and to head back to Jeju City. So we changed August and started walking along the shops. A couple really nice looking coffee/ice cream shops, but no luck. Foursquare told us a there was a taco place, Taco Massim, a little farther along, so we went and found that. A quirky little place, with a broken guitar August liked playing with, and a John Lennon album playing on a portable record player. We got the build-it-yourself black pork tacos and Coca-Colas in bottles. August liked the tomatoes, pork, and tortillas.
We drove back along the coast, stopping for gas, and made it to the car rental place a little after 2. Along the way Carly kept August pretty entertained, either with his videos on the iPad, the Sesame Street art app or Nighty Night, or food. But he would keep taking his arms out of the straps. Chuck told him to ‘Help mama’. August took this the wrong way, and each time he managed to free himself he would say ‘Help mama’ and do the sign for help.’
We took the shuttle to the airport, made it through check-in, and August fell asleep right before security. Again. That is 3 out of 6 times (at least) that he’s been asleep when we’ve gone through security.
Our flight was delayed about 25 minutes. We made it through our long trip home: through Gimpo Airport, on the airport express train, then line 6, then the #9 bus. August was understandably getting a bit tired of it all by the end, but not too bad.
We made it home about 7:30 and made our own burritos for dinner – Carly made beans and Chuck made eggs and hash browns. Chuck and Cherie gave us a small dol hareubang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_hareubang) since I had joked about decorating our apartment with them. August really liked it (he had enjoyed the feel of the rocks when he played with them at a shop the day before) and beeped its nose a few times.
Everyone headed to bed, and Carly tried getting him to sleep for quite awhile around 9. I thought they had both fallen asleep, but around 9:40 out they came. He stayed up with me for awhile. We mainly read books (he was really into the baloons in both the Thomas Goes to the Circus book and the Blue Bus Red Balloon book), and he lay on the floor a couple times. Finally, close to 10:30 he decided it was time to go back to mama.
New words/phrases: ear, circus, to the sea, seaweed, buoy, tiger (Duplo), Thomas (said bye bye as we finished reading it and I was taking him to bed)
Throwing sand between Opa’s legs:
Learning how to say ‘buoy’:
Letters with mama:
Squid:
Eating lunch:
Watching a video in the car:
In the plane:
Subway home:
Present: