Seoul Grand Park - Part 2 - Children's Zoo

When we left for Seoul last Saturday we were planning on going to the botanical garden at Seoul Grand Park since, as stated in my last post, we got off to a late start.  I knew that there was a children's zoo at SGP, but according to the website, it was inside the zoo so I didn't anticipate we'd be able to go since I didn't want to spend the money to get into the zoo for a couple of hours and have to pay more for the children's zoo.  Well, in trying to get to the botanical garden, our GPS took us around the park to the main entrance and an incredibly busy parking lot - we were in line for about 30 minutes before we got a glimpse around the curve only to find that it was a parking lot we were waiting to get into and they were only letting as many cars in as were coming out.  So, we managed to get turned around and headed back down the windy road and went the other direction to a different parking lot.  Turns out we had to walk a ways to go anywhere, but we love people watching and the whole point of that day's outing was to stretch our legs, so who cares if we had to walk?  Well, when we got to a map we discovered that the Children's Zoo was not inside the zoo - so, off we went.

 

Seems it was Spring at the zoo.  We saw babies everywhere!

 

They love their Guinea Pigs...

there were hutches everywhere with hundreds of them crawling around.

Monkeys are also a favorite.

But they're so dang cute, who doesn't love monkeys?

 

We watched this mom and babe for a long time.

 

These were still my favorite monkeys

 

Looking at the donkeys (Shrek has glorified these animals for my children)

Tristan turns around as Grace and I walked up and said, "Mommy, that's an ass."

Thanks, David.

 

Doin' a little mutton bustin'

After we were done horsing around, we took the sky lift back down the mountain.  I thought the views were absolutely beautiful!  David did too, he just doesn't like looking at them from that high in the air...

 

My two handsome boys.

 

We walked across this bridge on the way over to the rose garden and children's zoo.

 

More pictures with strangers...

 

My daughter will hate me for this later, but I had to capture the moment.

I was actually a bit surprised when we walked into this bathroom and didn't find regular toilets.  Everywhere we have gone thus far has had sit down toilets.  I can't say that I remember these kinds of toilets when I lived here as a child, but I do remember having to go in holes in the ground.  I offered to show Grace what she needed to do, but she didn't need my example.  She said, "No, I know what to do.  I've done it before, when we've been out hiking."  What a trooper!  I love that we can take our kids anywhere for all kinds of new experiences and they are willing to try anything without complaint.