Busy holidays

I'm used to dreaming a holiday in a nice beach with the hot sun, funny books, and sweet drinks or in some exotic scenery with unfamiliar cultures. In the Wikipedia, people are talking about holidays like :

The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. Based on the words holy and day, holidays oiginally represented special religious days. The workd has evolved in general usage to mean any specail day. In most of the English-speaking world, a holiday is also a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation.

I agree the real holiday means to be away from the usual dailiy life and works. At least , a holiday should be for a fun. But in reality, it's quite different. Doing some chores at home or playing with kids, which should have been a part of the usual daily life, is often a holiday mission. It's hard and sad, but it doesn't mean I complain, because I know I must be missing these days in the not-so-far future.

Anyway in the last weekend, my wife and I were very busy because of the Children's day, the Buddiest holiday, and the coming Parent's day. The followings are what we did in this May holidays.

My son was kindly invited to Children's opera at Seongnam in the Friday afternoon, and so we visited to Bundang and stayed at my sister's home while the kid went to Art Center with his cousin and uncle. In the evening of the day, we took a walk in the Bundang Central Park with her family. No pictures for the Seongnam Art Center and the Bundang Central Park unfortunately, but I felt living near the big park was very nice even if there was no beautiful park views at home.


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Returning to home, we dropped in the Jogyesa Temple, the main temple of the Jogye Order, Insadong, Seoul. It was not planned but we celebrated Buddha's birthday, watching the beautiful lotus lanterns covering the night sky full.

My son joined in the baby Buddha washing rite for a moment.

( Lotus Lanterns at the

Jogeysa Temple)

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In the next day, we visited to my parent and spent a half day wth them. They really love the kids.

The kids enjoyed the visit with eating, playing, and painting with their grandparent and cousin.

So the visit was nice even though we couldn't prepare the Parent's day gifts, which we couldn't decide yet.

Frankly speaking, I spent more than two hours for washing and waxing my car, which had been so dirty and soiled by Yellow sand and rains for a month.

( It's Spring there and the clean windows after car washing)


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In the last day, yesterday, my wife and son went to children's musical. The musicians of Bremen at Chongdong theatre, in downtown of Seoul. He was so much excited to the show and looked very pleased. It must be easy to understand and funny.

(Oneof the show posters.)

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In the meanwhile, I was wandering round the chongdong street with the toddler, my cute daughter, where I had a lot of memories for my young days. Thereafter, we all went to Seoul Museum of Art, SEMA. In the past, the building had been used for Supreme Court but rigth now, a small but nice art musium through remodeling.

There's no new exhibitions, and the hall 1,2 and 3 were closed for the next show, but we enjoyed the late Paik N.J's video work and Cheon Kyung Ja collection.

(The SEMA Building and the view from its cafeteria on the 3rd floor.)

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Buying Jinseng-Chicken soup for dinner was the last job in the long holidays.

P.S. Editing is too hard and uploading pictures are too difficult and slow here. It tooks a lot for this posting. I'm hesitating for not-uploading pictures anymore..