Monday, 17 May 2010

Saturday at the Children's Grand Park

On Thursday I met some ladies from the playgroup at the Children's Grand Park. It's a great Park with two big playgrounds, a zoo, botanical gardens and an amusement park. When I left home I thought I had ample time to get there, but Seoul decided to run an earthquake drill that morning and at 10am all traffic was forced to a standstill. I sat for a good 15 minutes without even rolling forward. Once we were allowed to resume driving there was so much congestion and traffic, I thought I'd never get to the park. I finally got there with just enough time for Brandon to have short play and some lunch before I had to take him home for his nap. So Brad and I decided to try again early on Saturday morning. We had to go early because it gets crazy busy on weekends. Some people we know went a few weekends ago and it took them 2 hours to get out of the carpark and another hour to get home. We were hoping to avoid this kind of situation by beating the crowds. It was a good morning, Brandon loved looking at the animal in the small zoo. Unfortunately the zoo wasn't the best we'd ever seen, the leapords were horribly overweight and the lions had a very small enclosure. Even the little foxes in the children's zoo were a bit mangy. We then took Brandon to the playground for a run around. By the time we left, the queue of cars waiting to get into the car park was 3 blocks deep. It's insane, the car park was full so they will just sit and wait for a car to leave before they're allowed in. The people in those cars have no idea how long the wait will be, it could be hours.

Looking at the foxes in the Children's Zoo
I'm a fox
Trying to get closer to the mangy little fox

Yeah, I love climbing stairs

The sign says 'sheep'? Funny looking sheep in Korea!

I found it, here's the sheep

Check me out!

Fascinated with the ring-tailed coati's

Woah - a leopard

Hello, hello - look here Mr. Leopard

I think I can get a better view if I climb up here!

Awww cute (no, the matching outfits were not planned)

Hey, I have the same monkey backpack but mom forgot to bring it

Teehee, who said walking across this swinging bridge was hard?

You just have to avoid the swinging bits, like this...

Friday, 30 April 2010

Bali

We didn't really experience Bali. We were looking for a relaxing beach holiday,and with Brandon still taking two naps a day, we didn't get much opportunity to explore the areas outside of the resort we stayed at. The street below is as far as we got.
The local shopping street
The local wildlife inside the resort. The resort was huge, it had 5 restaurants and a huge lagoon area, as well as a lovely big beach.

The entrance to the resort

The lagoon

The fountains in the lagoon. The roofs jutting out are where the one restaurant was. We had a few dinners and breakfasts there but we tended to go to the restaurant closer to the beach.

More of the lagoon creatures


The water display that Brandon liked to dip his hands in






The restuarant overlooking the lagoon

The rooms overlook the lagoon

The beach








Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Bali 2

The reception area of the resort

Brandon did not like the grass at first, it took him quite some time to get used to it.

Taking an evening stoll around the resort before dinner

No, you're not supposed to playing in the fountain

Brandon stopping to smell the 'roses'

Picking up the chicks at dinner

Hitting on the girls at breakfast
(Are you seeing the pattern, he tried to impress everyone at every meal)
Lunch time by the pool

Ohhh, please can I put a sticky fingerprint on the camera lens

Brandon relaxing with his feed up while dad feeds him his favourite lunch time meal - watercress soup

Say CHEESE

Feeding the fish after breakfast

Having a cold drink after a nice nap

The playhouse (we took Brandon to the playarea on the sweltering hot afternoons because there was too little shade by the pool at that time of day)


Having fun in the playhouse

Noooo, I don't like the grass

Okay, it's not so bad to sit on

Actually this is rather nice

But I still prefer sitting on the towels

Playing Peek-a-boo with the sieve from his beach bucket


Cooling off in the baby pool

Playing aroung the pool area


In the playroom

At the beach before dinner


Climbing the trees

At Hong Kong airport on the way home

When's the next holiday?