Seoul Forest Park

I took Stella to the Seoul Forest Park in November when it was still warm enough to walk around outside. I had heard that it was a great place for kids...and, well, it was! And Autumn is such a great time to go and appreciate the splendour that is Korea in the Fall.

It's a huge park with animals, playgrounds, gardens, ponds, rollerblading/skateboarding rinks, statues, and so much more. A highlight was definitely feeding the bambi deer and birds (birds proving to be more popular with Stella).

We loved it and will surely be back for more...as soon as the weather warms up that is!

 

The miniature animal feeding park ~



*Photo taken by Stella!

* My New Years' resolution is to try and get my blog posts done in order.

Just the two of us...

We really, really missed being home for Christmas this year. So we lit a few candles on our Christmas cake, and watched some home videos. And on Christmas day we went to a Christmas party with some crazy, fun-loving Filipinos and then everything felt alright ;)

But next year we will make sure we're in SA where we belong!

Christmas decorating

We had a lot of fun putting up our little Christmas tree and decorating last week. This is definitely my favourite time of the year!

Stella took her job of hanging the Christmas balls very seriously, and loved being all covered in glitter.

What to do first?

반짝반짝 glitter hands

It was hard to persuade her not to put all the balls on just one branch ;)

The star on top

...and a candy cane for fun.

Stella's attempts at taking photos of the goings-on...



Not a bad photo for a 2.something year old!

Merry Christmas!

The tree has been redecorated about a million times since then, but I decided that it's Stella's and she can do what she wants with it. And besides, what's not great about having a newly decorated Christmas tree every day?

The Good Girl Christmas Tree

So it's that time of the year again, and we all know that Santa only delivers gifts to good little boys and girls. So as an incentive, I made Stella a Good Girl Christmas Tree. Every day that she behaves well, or does something really good, she gets to decorate the tree with one sticker. Santa is watching, and if that tree looks really pretty by Christmas, then he'll send all the presents she asks for. At the moment, he'll have an easy job, because all she wants (when I last asked her) is a 'pink' present!

Hello Winter

The brilliant colours of Autumn have already disappeared, and have been replaced by more dull browns, which tells me that winter has most certainly arrived!

Even though it is really chilly already, for our own sanity we try and take a little walk out in the fresh air every day. Luckily we are surrounded by beautiful nature!

We have a lot to look forward to in the next few weeks : Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas markets, and snowboarding!!

Halloween at Everland

*Trying very hard to catch up on the blog
*Failing miserably

Everland is brilliant at celebrating the different seasons and holidays. I cannot wait to see what they are doing for Christmas!

This past October, Lunge (my South African co-worker) joined us for Halloween celebrations, and I'm not sure who enjoyed it more - her or Stella!

 

Aesop's village has always been my favourite part of Everland, and this time we discovered a new little gem - the reading maze! Whenever you touch a part of the book, it begins to read a story to you = Stella was totally intrigued...

 



Halloween benches...



 

Having a stare-off with a goblin...



The Halloween parade!