Children's Day

Hi so here is the post about Children's Day here in Seoul. It is a big holiday here - everyone is off school and work and most families go out and do something special with their kids. I like the idea - the crowds I didn't like so much. But being a guests here in Korea we couldn't really sit and home on this holiday.
John's teacher even told him he would be a bad dad if he didn't take his kids out for Children's Day so out we went.

Netta has been wanting to go to SeoulLand for a long time - maybe since the first time she came to Seoul when she was 6. It is a Disneyland kind of place and my students' parents invited us to join them going there on Children's Day. It is kind of expensive so we passed on taking Olive and John and just Netta and I went with them.
Seoul Land is in the same park as the zoo so John took Olive to the zoo and we met them there. Seoul Land is so busy for Children's Day that they open early to help people beat the crowds. We met our friends at the subway station at 6:50 am and were at the park by 7:30 when they opened.
The first ride we went on was the bumper cars - here is Sang Yoon my student in his yellow car. It was fun!
Next was this crazy contraption that I passed on, it went around and around on something that also went around and around - Netta went alone and loved it.

Then we went on a roller coaster - pretty fun - lots of screaming - I actually can't remember the last time I went on a roller coaster - it was good fun.
This was definitely the highlight of Netta's day. They put kids in these big balls then filled the ball with air and then sent them out on these little ponds of water. Netta had a lot of fun doing this - it had an extra charge but it was totally worth it once we figured out how to make it happen.
Netta in her bumper car. Sorry this one is out of order.

Netta in action - rolling the ball by crawling.
Standing up was hard and only lasted a few seconds - glad I caught this shot.
Another action shot!
So much fun!!
Then we met our friends again and the kids played in the ball pit. By this time the lines were becoming ridiculous and it was only about 10am. The play area did not have lines so the kids played there for awhile. This is Ji Hu my student. She is a lot of fun!
Netta chilling out in the ball pit.
So due to the crazy crowds we left Seoul Land after this and met John at the zoo.
A heron we saw walking from Seoul Land to the zoo.

John with his head in an alligator's mouth at the zoo!

The end..........