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Thursday, June 5, 2008

To the Tower, to the Tower....


Today we spent the day sightseeing in Seoul and went up to the top of the Seoul Tower. We did one of those sightseeing tour buses which is pretty much the only way to do it with three kids. (Even then, Madeline screamed in the car while we sat in Seoul traffic on the drive up there for forty minutes straight and Josh had a meltdown on the bus when it wasn't his turn to sit next to Daddy, but I digress.)

The hill to walk up to the tower is STEEP, especially with a fully loaded stroller. The pictures do not do it justice. Once we got to the top, we had a little picnic lunch . and then went up the tower.




There is a 360 degree view of Seoul and on each of the windows they have which foreign city you are looking towards and how far away you are. Here we are 9, 596.52 km from Angela's "home" (Los Angeles).



And, look! Only 193.60 km from Pyongyang! That's always reassuring.




When we were done, we went back down to the plaza from some pineapple on a stick, or as Everland calls it, pineapple coochi.






There are coin operated heat lamps:







And, Angela encounters her first squatty potty:
(which was thankfully across the way from a regular Western toilet.)

3 comments:

Justin said...

Rapunzel! Rapunzel!

Krazy Fam said...

Those sqatters are so fun, aren't they? Hey, when you've gotta go...
Glad you got up to enjoy Seoul for a bit before you go. :)

keenbliss said...

How is it you've managed to avoid squatty potties for this long? I'm impressed! What a great day to go up the tower, everything looks so green. It was all brown when we went... alas.