Seoul Olympic Park In Autumn (part 4)

One place we needed to see was the lonely tree:)

so, we kept on walking. 

oh, well...Mama couldn't resist herself from not taking pictures along the way. 

what's with the look, Fre? 

oh, my first picture in the park... 

Within a few minutes of walking, we reached the second plaza where the famous 'lonely tree' is located.  

There it was.

More people were pouring into the area... 

wait up, Freya. Gosh..she just couldn't wait. In a split of a second, she was already up ahead of me...running towards the tree. 

I'd better enjoy what the surrounding had for us.

I thought that no one was allowed to be in the perimeter of the tree, but I saw three people were right next to the tree! 

Let's take a pic to capture the moment, gals. 

Finally, with one last persuasion, Freya agreed to stand still and...let me do the job. 

The shadows....

Seoul Olympic Park in Autumn (part 2)

Mama, wished you moved a little bit to the right or to the center so as to make like you're holding the red stature right on your head:) 

Okay, we continued walking to find another plaza surrounded by color-changing trees. It's full (well not really full) of people having picnic while letting the kids play around the plaza. 

And this was what Eyra and Freya were expecting every time we went going out. 

Well, girls...start playing, then. 

But, first, we got to find some place to sit down... 

Keep on walking....sports hall after hall were visible in the park. 

And other art installation (like this one) was visible and easily traceable around the park. 

Now that we got ourselves a place to sit down and relax, we might as well let the kids run and run around the plaza. 

We forgot to bring the frisbee, so to compensate for that...we let the them use the tupperware we brought along with. 

Getting tired of running around the park, it's time to have some snacks ready. 

A nice place to be. 

Okay, enough sitting ...and let's start walking around the park to explore what it had to offer for us.

Olympic Park in Autumn 2013 (part 1)

We've never been to Olympic Park before. 

It's the venue of Seoul Summer Olympic back in 1988. Wow..that was like 25 years ago. 

Since it's Autumn and we did not want to go out of town, yet.

We might as well check this place out. 

Good thing..the line up of trees had turned into colorful red, yellow, orange, and partly green. 

Surely the girls loved to be there.

Especially with relatively warm weather compared to the previous day... 

We got tons of things to check out. And the first thing that I noticed was...this. 

I learned that back in 1988 during Seoul Olympic, the organizers deliberately invited international artists, sculptors..to make something that would stay against the test of time to testify about the Olympic in Seou.

This one was called 'Impersonation Station' --Gee..I didn't know what that means, though. 

Okay..let us take another stroll into other parts of the park....and wow..the trees!!! 

One fine great day to spend an afternoon, eh, girls?

....

Then, we're approaching the main plaza where another artistic stature/statue/work of art was visible from afar. 

 

Didn't know what that was...though.

But it surely meant something. (sigh: didn't have time to check it out)

I must admit that it must've been immensely impressive back in the 1988.