Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Day 5 in Seoul ....

Day 5 and we'd had Aiden going on 2 days.  All in all he seemed better than I was expecting, really! We'd woke up around 6 am, which Aiden's foster mom said he slept from 9:30 till 6:30 am.  He feel asleep earlier than 9:30, so 6 am was great! Mike and I took turns showering, and then we headed down to breakfast,  I fed Aiden some baby food before we went down, just in case he wouldn't eat some of their breakfast items.






I soon found out, this little cuties loves to eat, and he can put it away! :) We headed down to breakfast and saw some bananas.  Oh, how he loves bananas!






These stacking cups were a life saver.  Aiden loved them! Whoever suggested them on the Korean BB - thanks! ;)  After we played a little, we got ready and went downstairs to get a taxi, we were going to the Seoul Tower! Spare you all the hooplah and show pictures! :)



And of course we had our lock and put it on the fence.  Aiden had fallen asleep on the way to the Seoul Tower, so he slept through most of it.










Needless to say the  view up there was amazing.  Unfortunately, we didn't go to the top of the tower.  Aiden was sleeping, and my back was really hurting carrying him. 23 lbs gets a little heavy after a lot of walking! :)




Taylor would have loved this.  We noticed a sign that said no pictures, but other Koreans were taking pictures, so we did...shhhhh!;)










        Then we rode the cable car down.






When we got off the cable car, down the hill, there was this box escalator that took people down to the main street. Odd, but neat nonetheless!


We soon found a taxi and Mike told the driver to take us to a certain place.  Our iPod quit working on Day 4! Not sure what happened, but it wouldn't turn on.  I was so bummed  - it was our life line through our whole trip, phone contact with Taylor, etc!  Here's how we'd charge it in the room.





Skype - what an awesome thing on an iPod! 

Looks crazy but this thing was a jewel - till it dumped on us!  So after we left the Seoul Tower, Mike had a little adventure up his sleeve.  He'd asked the front desk if there was an "Apple" store near.  She told him about one place we could find one.  The taxi driver dropped us off and pointed in the direction we needed to go.  We found it a few hundred feet later!  Mike took our iPod  into a computer store and told them, "no work".  The young guy said, "dead battery?" Mike said "No!"  The young guy plugged it up to a laptop sitting there and voila!  It re-booted!  Awesome day!  Mike tried to offer the young guy money, and he smiled and refused, we thanked him royally and moved on.  We walked a ways and saw a big yellow "M".  Mike's not one to eat McDonalds but we were starving and it did fine! We both had a Big Mac, and I must say it was good!!!!!  We got another taxi and went back to the hotel, very very tired after that.  Aiden was tired too, but he was being so silly in the taxi on the way back! :)