Seoul Forrest

I have a few adventures from this past summer that I want to get you caught up on...

All around Seoul there are parks where families can spend the day and get away from the craziness of the city.  They have done an awesome job making the parks beautiful and full of fun activities.  One day this past summer our family decided to take a bike ride to one of these parks named Seoul Forrest and explore it. 

Riding bikes in a city is a crazy experience.   

This is a major highway that we had to ride right beside. 

 We stopped on this bridge to watch a water show.  This bridge, the Bampo Bridge, is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the "World's Longest Bridge Fountain".  They play music and have a water (and lights at night) show at different times during the day.  It is actually a double-deck bridge with cars driving on 2 different levels.  Here are some cool facts about the bridge:

• It is 1140 meters (3740 feet) long
• It features almost 10,000 nozzles that run along both sides of the bridge
• It has over 200 lights on it that at night light during the water show
• It shoots out about 190 tons of water per minute
• It crosses the Han River and pumps water directly from the river

We happened to be riding across during the water show and stopped to watch.

Korean parks have awesome play grounds.

You can climb all around the inside of this huge person.

Sitting on top of the snake.

Climb the rope up...

...slide back down.

A fun stepping bridge over the stream.  In the front of this picture you can see the cool water activities they had at this park.  You had to turn the crank to get the water up to the top then it would flow down the troughs back into the stream.

Here Taylor is turning the crank.

This particular park had a beautiful (and free!) butterfly house.

The flowers were beautiful inside of the butterfly house.

Playing on the rocks.

It also had an area of water fountains that shot up from the ground that kids could play in.  The girls loved it.

"Hurry mom, take the pictures.  We are missing all the water!"

And off they go.

Dad patiently waiting for them while they play in the water.

The Koreans make a day of it and set up camp for hours.

We found a small restaurant to eat some lunch after the fountains.

And finally back on our bikes to ride home again. 

This was an awesome park that is just a bike ride away from our house.  We love living in the crazy city but every once in a while it is nice to get a break from it as well.