Musical Water Fountains

One weekend we decided to head out towards a musical water fountain show that we had heard about.  We didn't really know very much about it, besides it was water fountains that were programmed to "dance" to music.
Here we are heading out on our adventure...

Obviously the subway has lost some of it's newness to Lucy.  She isn't impressed anymore.

The fountain show was inside of the Seoul Arts Center.

The Seoul Arts Center is a huge complex with a few museums, concert halls and restaurants.  It is free to go into the center but then you pay for the individual activities/events you attend.  We were really excited to find out the fountain show was free.

We got there a few minutes early and the girls had fun playing on these little statues.

When we first got there we were the only ones there.  We started to think we had gotten incorrect information.  But, once the fountains and music started people quickly began to gather around to watch and take pictures.

Even the Korean Nuns stopped to take some pictures.

The girls watching the fountains.

It was pretty cool how they had choreographed the music and the water.

It was extremely hot outside and if you stood at this end of the fountain every once in a while there was a slight breeze and the mist from the water would hit you.  It felt wonderful. 

We really enjoyed watching the fountains dance to the music but quickly realized it would be much better to come back at night when they not only do the fountains and music but they light up the water as well.

 After the show we spent a few minutes exploring the Arts Center.  We didn't do any of the museums that day but decided we would probably come back to check them out another time.

We took this picture of our reflection in a mirrored  building.  As a fun side note...when Russ and I were in Korea, pre-kids back in 2000, we took this exact same photo.  We had forgotten where we took the photo until we were walking around the Arts Center and saw this building.  It was fun to re-create the picture with the girls.  Unfortunately, I didn't bring my old photos with me so I don't have a copy of the first picture to post on here.

As we were leaving the Arts Center we found this awesome water fall and bridge.  We all walked across the bridge and took a few pictures.

It was massive.

Russ took this self-portrait and made it look like the fountain was his hat. 

 

That evening we didn't have any plans and so we decided to make another trip back to the fountain to see an evening show.  It was much less humid and so the crowd was much larger.  The lights made the show quite a bit more entertaining.  We enjoyed the show a lot more in the evening and will definitely be taking family members and friends to see it when they come visit us.