kids cafe

I remember when I was a kid it was always fun to go to a friend's house because one of the perks was that you got to play with your friend's toys.  The Kids' Cafe in Korea is like "your friend's house full of toys" x 100.  

In Korea people mostly live in apartments with limited space, so people here share a lot communally.  For example, you can go to a "Game Bong (bong means room)" where you can rent board games for an hour or two, a PC bong, DVD bong (you rent a room to watch a movie in), and probably the most notable--Norae bong (karaoke rooms).  The Kids' Cafe is the same concept for little ones.  You pay by the hour to hang out at the cafe (or if you're a newborn like Everett you are free!) and then you get to use all the toys at the cafe.  

This Kid's Cafe is two levels; the first level is basically a padded jungle gym and the second level is full of different rooms/types of toys.  They have a dress up room, lego room, cars, dolls, etc.  Just about anything you could want as a kid is at this cafe.   Also, there are tables and chairs around the room for parents to drink lattes at while they watch their kids play.  We went with two other families and had so much fun! Everett is still too young to enjoy much of what the Kid's Cafe has to offer, but it's fun to hang out with other parents and play with our kids.  

In the picture below you can see the second floor and some of the toys they had.  Everett rocked it in their exersaucer, which you better believe I doused in disinfectant wipes before he could get near it. 

 In true Asian style we had to take off our shoes so they gave us these slippers to wear while inside.  I'm pretty sure they gave me two right footed ones...

 Around the outside of the jungle gym there was a train that ran once an hour! I wanted to take E for a ride but it was too full so we missed out the first time around.  You can tell we're both upset...

 Luckily they ran it a special second time for us! We had fun and I avoided banging my head on the low level beams we went under, so that was a double win!

 And like I mentioned in an earlier post, Everett is a good public napper so he fell asleep chillin' in Daddy's arms.   You'll also notice the giant TV in the background; it's a surveillance screen so parents can see where their kids are at all times.  Our crew opted for the old school style of actually playing with our kids and/or making sure they stayed in our line of sight.

 After the Kid's Cafe our crew went to King Kong, which is a galbi restaurant where you can grill an unlimited supply of meat.  It was so dang good!

Lastly we headed to the grocery store where Everett may or may not have gotten a new toy...What can we say...We're suckers for geometry.