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...