Alice in Wonderland

Last Thursday, we took the kiddies on an outing to "Alice Park" in Yangjae, close to Seoul.

In addition to seeing sights as John K. passed out on the bus less than 5 minutes before we left, a disgruntled ajassi (read: middle-aged Korean man) cutting off the bus then stopping to yell at our driver, and kids stuffing food in their mouths as if there were no tomorrow, we saw all kinds of stuff that shocked the kids, amazed them, left their jaws on the ground.

Oh look! (Actually, I have no idea what they were looking at. Another group of students, possibly, as the park was full of them.)

A nicely wooded area, full of grass. This is generally uncommon in the Seoul area.

These were giant apples that were hollowed out and full of seats and puzzles on the wall. There were several of them.

A giant Cheshire Cat on top of a house that was too full for us to enter. Objects in the picture look much smaller than they are.

The caterpillar smoking his hookah.

The card men. John and Jennifer are both amazed by the giant wooden hands, and who wouldn't be? They were mostly chipped and broken. Note the fact that they have the same expression, meaning they are yelling the same nonsense to me at the same time. Day in the life of Lyndsey teacher.

The giant top hat house. In the foreground is John, so you can really see how big it is.

The little forest area. There were silver balls hanging from the man-made canopy. There were vines everywhere. It was actually pretty cool.

It makes me happy to see Korea encouraging its children to have fun, to be creative, and to have an imagination. Unfortunately, like everything else in Korea, it was crowded and people are pushy.

Nonetheless, a good time was had by all.