Yeouido Hanggang Park

The neighborhood our hotel is in is Yeouido, which is Seoul's main investment and finance district. Across the street from us is Hangang Park, which is a huge park along the Han River. Hudson and I have literally only explored about 1/3 of the park, and we go there most mornings. For example, we know there is a playground somewhere in there, but we have yet to find it. Im a bit directionally inept, but not that bad! Maybe the maps are confusing, or maybe I am easily confused. Hopefully next week we will have finished exploring the rest of it and I can fill you in.

Because Seoul is full of tall buildings and seemingly endless people, getting a chance to see open spaces like the park is very cool. From what I understand, the best cherry blossom viewing is near the park, but since springtime is long gone we won't be seeing them!

There is a walking track with arrows, as well as a bike track that run around the park. There are lot of maps explaining where to rent bikes, see statues, ponds, and basketball courts. I haven't seen anyone using the basketball courts yet, so no pick up games, lol. Im guessing the park is very crowded on the weekends, but on weekday mornings, it isn't crowded at all, especially since kids are in school right now (they go year round with exception of the month of March). Often we see preschool classes of kids running or following their teachers all in matching shirts. We get smiles from them which is fun.

Bike path side of trail

look at my sweet rebel, walking on the bike path side (see cement walking path to right). One nice thing is on the right it notes how many meters you have walked. Now only if I knew the metric system *JK*

Always prepared for rain

Hudson dropped his umbrella over the fence. Creative use of other umbrella to rescue it FTW

Look at these day lilies! (Mom, you would love these!)

Lots of carp in this pond

Hudson was trying to look like the statue. He totally did, right?

Our first trip to Starbucks. Sorry Janelle, no meeting you near the Glacier Hills Caribou here!
But this Starbucks has macaroons! 

Hudson had a strawberries and cream drink. Who knows what was in it, since all we saw is the word strawberry. Could be the souls of dead Capitalism for all I know! He said it tasted fantastic. Hope it was worth the $7, kiddo!

Do they have this drink in American Starbucks? It was red tea sangria, and had apples and pineapple in it with red tea. It was good, and also about $7 for a tall.