I woke up with a headache and went back to bed. While I was asleep, Carly and August Skyped with her parents in Mexico. When I got up, we basically got ready and left, as Carly had an appointment to get her hair cut in Hongdae, about an hour across the city.
We made it there about 11:15. The subway ride went smoothly, with August playing iPad games with Carly much of the way.
While Carly got her hair cut, August and I say in the waiting area at first and had a snack. But he wanted to go outside after awhile, into the cold.
We walked up the street to the park. It was barely 30 degrees, but he was happily drawing letters in the sand. He was not happy though after 10 minutes when I made him out his hood on. Some very big tears rolling down his face. Carly found us by following the noise.
We then walked one stop up to the Sinchon area, to find a Little Prince kid cafe. We weren’t sure it would be there, as the last two we have looked for were closed. But the website still lists the locations, and lists cafes they have opened around the world in the last few months.
And indeed, to add to the mystery it was still listed on the building but wasn’t actually there.
August was having a difficult time by now, as he was tired, cold, and bothered by us bothering him about wearing his hat and gloves. We went into the Espresso Bean and Tea Leaf. Carly got him down for a nap and I ordered our drinks. He had a nice long nap (from around 12:45 to 2:20), and we had a nice long reading session.
When he woke up he was in a much better mood. He played in the cafe and I changed him in the bathroom.
We went to McDonald’s because it was convenient, being right between us and the subway stop, and we didn’t feel like wandering in the cold. Also, I had the grilled mushroom burger, which turned out to be really good. August liked the mushrooms, and he also likes the Korean pickles they gave us. He drew a line though at the radish.
We then headed home. At the subway station August really liked the statue of a bunny and art they had on the floor. He played around and on that (and looked at letters and numbers on signs) for ten minutes or so until Carly and I were getting cold and decided it was time to go. Took a slightly longer subway route, but it paid off: got three seats together, taking us to within two stops of home. The shorter route would have had us transferring in downtown, and seating would have been worse from the beginning.
At home he ate some food with Carly and I gave him a bath. Oh, and Carly found the blue broom – it had ended up under the couch. Also, he was playing the piano and xylophone and singing as he did so. He hasn’t paid them much attention lately, so that was fun to see. And when he was done with the xylophone he put all the sticks on it neatly. Not a long evening, as he fell asleep a little past 8:30.
I got one string of Christmas lights up, and Carly started listening to Christmas music. She also got some more work done on the free she is making for our door.
Asleep 12:45 to 1:53
New words/phrases: Ready teddy, building up there, Brownstone, give me mama
While Carly got her hair cut:
Lunch:
At the station:
Waiting for the train:
Home: