Playground and Post

Alden and I like to go to this playground on post whenever the weather is good enough.  We have been going 2-3 times a week because Alden loves being outside and it helps tire him out so that he takes better naps.  The playground is really nice because they have a section built specifically for 1-3 year olds and then another section for the older kids.  Alden has decided that he likes playing on the side for big kids sometimes but he is usually pretty careful.  It is fun to watch him explore the playground and discover new things.  Here our some pictures and videos from one of our days at the playground.

Here is a video of Alden exploring a little bit of the playground and the area around the playground.

Here is a video when he was trying to get under another part of this boat and then he started watching some other kids go down the slide.

Alden loves this crank and plays with it every time we go.

This is obviously from a different day at the playground (because it is a different outfit) but this is usually what happens on the way home.  He falls asleep in the stroller.  The funniest part about it is that he often falls asleep leaning against the tray in front of him, which does not look comfortable, and then we have to re-position him so he is laying down in the stroller.

These were taken in the food court just downstairs from the playground where we will sometimes get food.  Alden loves eating his squeezy packets of applesauce and then stealing some of Mommy and Daddy's food.

Building 63

It was raining fairly hard for part of Saturday so we had to pick an indoor activity to go do.  So, we went to building 63 which is a 63 story building that has a wax museum, aquarium among other things you can visit in the basement and an art gallery on the 60th floor that also has a great view of the surrounding city.  Alden had a great time at the aquarium, again.  He seriously loves fish so much we might have to get him a fish tank when we move to Washington.  It is so great to see him so happy around animals.  Here are the pictures from our day at building 63.

 The bronze building is building 63.

We love penguins!

 Alden being so calm and mellow now that he sees fish again.

Alden and Daddy having fun seeing different fish.  There were so many fish Alden didn't know what to focus on.  Here is a video.

 The sea otters came right up in front of Alden.

 This was pretty cool.  They had a synchronized swimmer do a show in one of the fish tanks.

These are called Doctor fish and they eat dead skin.  You could stick your fingers in these little holes to let them eat the dead skin off your fingers.  It tickled a little and felt a little funny.  Alden enjoyed sticking his fingers in there but I'm still not sure his fingers were actually long enough to reach the water.

Alden was not very happy when it was time to leave the aquarium to get lunch.  However, once we started feeding him he was fine.

Drew tried the Korean version of spaghetti for lunch and said that it was good.

 Next we went to the wax museum which was a lot of fun to visit.

I'm not sure why they had all the teddy bears in a wax museum but they were cute.

The last thing we visited was the art gallery on the 60th floor.  As you will see in the photos, since it was cloudy and raining we couldn't see too far.

They had some interesting art work.  Alden liked these blocks that he could play with.  Here is a video of him and Drew playing with the blocks.

So, we had a really fun day trying to stay dry.  We really are having a blast seeing so many new things here in Korea and I am starting to realize that there are some things that I am really going to miss about this country when I come back to the US.