Last Day in the Park

It's the last full day of our time in South Korea, and the last day of the children's school vacation.  So we celebrated with a trip further away to Grand Park.  We took two kid bikes so we could experience the bike park there.

Complete with traffic lights, marked lanes, and everything is child-sized with no cars allowed.  Mark was playing traffic cop in the middle of the intersection, handing out traffic violations to some speedy bikers.

Then we visited another section of this grand park, and Denisa nick-named it the "big marshmallow toy."

Made of inflatable rubber, it was great exercise running up and down its hills.

The adults enjoyed it until security informed us it was for children only.  We were busted!  Of course there was the ever-present adult exercise equipment in this park, but the big marshmallow was more fun.

The hills made great slides . . .

and the inflated surface was like one huge trampoline.

Last stop was the big net climbing toy.  Adults weren't allowed here either, so we only have pictures of the three children this time.

Cole wasn't tall enough to climb to the higher level of nets, but he got lots of help from his siblings to get up there.

We had to make a stop at a bike shop for a little repair on Camden's bike.  Mark found a cool bike for sale for only 14,139,000!  The good news is that the price was quoted in South Korean won.  The bad news is that it would still be $12,844 in U.S. dollars.

We thought it was interesting that the bike shop posted that they gave "preferential treatment to foreigners."  But for all we know, the South Korean words beside it might say that they give preferential treatment to locals.

Now we were ready for some more biking, so we headed to the area close to where we rode the surrey bikes for free last week.  But today we got two free tandem bikes instead.  Alexia took this selfie picture of all six of us on our bikes.

Mark and Denisa were partners on one bike, and Mark reported that the person on the front pedals is obviously not expected to be six feet tall.  Not the most comfortable ride, it was still great fun working our way around this wonderful park.

The children took turns on the tandem bike with their Mom.  Just to be sure no one was slighted, Alexia set her alarm for when it was time to switch.

Camden got his turn with Alexia while we rode through the bamboo forest.

Our biker buddies are posing in front of the fields of chrysanthemums.

We spotted a woman walking by in a typical Korean walking outfit--complete with the face covering, big hat, long sleeves and gloves.

The long tunnels have erupted into yellow blooms since we were here a week ago,

and the flower sculptures are covered in blooms now too.  The trees are also turning nice shades of autumn in the park.

Some of the mums are fading, but we see that the Christmas poinsettias are already planted and ready for the next season's display.

We're a little sad that we won't be here to see the next season's display, but we know that today is our last day in the park (for this trip).