The Road to 40 Day 173/365: Kidsitting Museum Tour and Welcome Birthday

As expected with the late session from the other room, we needed to pivot morning plans to zero. Still, it was a fun day for everyone.

With most of the adults still reeling from their extended night drinks, we started looking for potential alternatives to our activities. Lunch started at around 1pm, as we walked to find a seollongtang restaurant nearby. The soup would be good for recovery for everyone, and provide a hearty meal for the rest of us.

I decided to take the kids to the museum while the adults explore Itaewon. Originally, we were set to go to the museums in the morning, but even the kids didn’t move until late. Itaewon was set for the afternoon, and while there may be places that we could go with the kids, I felt that they might get restless in places that they shouldn’t be.

Che initially volunteered to join me, but Nicky said he wanted to go as well. Since I had another adult, Che said she would just welcome the sisters as they arrived.

Nicky and I took the boys out to the trains and set off for the Football Fantaesium.

It’s one of the attractions featured in the Discover Seoul Pass, which we could use to get inside three attractions. Both Neo and Vino got excited to see it. We had no idea what was in store for us, but we got on the train to check it out nonetheless.

It was a small museum, featuring some of the best performances of South Korea in the World Cup. It also had a few interactive installations, but the kids thoroughly enjoyed the Dribble Zone. It had a small ball and a goal where they tried to score on each other instead of dribbling.

That’s basically the highlight of that place, and we decided to visit the Battleship Museum. It’s also part of the DSP, but we needed to use our last pass for Everland. I knew it was just 3,000KRW, so I thought it was fine to just pay for it.

Unfortunately, Vino didn’t have his T-Money card, so we couldn’t ride the bus. I told the guys we should look for a convenience store first to buy a pass for Vino, but as soon as we turned, I realized there was none in sight.

We stumbled upon a running and biking path below the bridges, which was a nice surprise. We all enjoyed the view from there, and it was just a bonus that it was sunset.

After we walked further, I still couldn’t see a convenience store. From my navigation app, it said that it takes about 36 minutes to get to the Battleship Museum from the football one. At around this time, we had walked around 15minutes already.

I thought, if the kids won’t ask, we could probably walk all the way to the place. After all, it was a nice neighborhood to walk around.

We had a couple of stopovers just to rest our legs, but we ultimately reached our destination. Inno, for one, didn’t mind the tired legs because he was going to see battleships.

This was more fun than the football place, as we could explore the inside of a warship.

It was similar to the ship that Vino and I explored back in Sydney, but it was more fun watching him enjoy the experience with kids around his age.

Like any museum, they didn’t really read through the history of things and whatnot. They just checked out any cool thing that they could see or get their hands on.

My fellow kidsitter Nicky and I couldn’t get a lot of photos of the kids because they kept running off, so we took one ourselves instead.

They got tired, naturally, considering all that distance we walked. We decided to grab an Uber from where we were to our dinner place.

Che helped get us a ride, but since there were five of us, we needed two cars. I asked Nicky to take the kids in the first car so they could settle down already. I waited for another booking to be confirmed.

The dinner place was the first time that we were in one huge group, as the sisters had finally arrived.

Jukto offered samgyeopsal cooked in jeot-style. From what I read, jeot is usually fermented seafood. The meat was flavorful in its own way, but maybe it’s not the taste that we’re used to. It’s good, but Che and I thought 401 was better.

The gang went ahead of us, while the sisters stayed behind to finish the food.

We had a short walk to Hybe for the BTS fans. There was not much to see, but of course, it was a fun stop for the fans we know.

We took a bus heading back to the hotel in Myeongdong. All the rest had different things going on, either outside or in the hotel.

Che went up to the sisters, who were doing some welcome drinks for their arrival and Ten’s birthday. I stayed in the room to watch over the kids, because if you have three boys together, there’s a huge chance that they will be rowdy.

We called it a night after greeting Ten a happy birthday, as we had to get ready for an early start the next day.