1. Luna is afraid of dogs.
2. Luna is even more afraid of barking dogs.
3. Luna is terrified of barking dogs that come running to her even if she is held 4 feet off the ground and the dog can't reach her.
4. Luna is afraid of anything that makes a loud noise and comes at a fast speed towards her. For example, waves crashing on the beach. Luna would flinch and grab even harder at my skin when the waves would crash. Then again, maybe it was because she was so traumatized by the dogs the night before? But she got used to the waves. (Did I already write about this last time?)
Aside from Luna being afraid of dogs and waves crashing, there were other things I learned.
The first is that a jogger is immensely useful. When we drove down to Busan, we packed the car with all of Luna's stuff. I packed like 2 shirts, shorts, and a couple other things for myself. For Luna, I packed like half of her summer wardrode, an entire pack of diapers, her entire stash of food, her first aid kit, booster seat, jogger, and of course the carseat that was already in there. Needless to say, we didn't use most of the diapers because I usually let her roam around free because of the humidity, wore like 2 of her outfits because we were at the beach, and threw away some of her food because it just wasn't necessary and I didn't want to carry it back home after it's already been refrozen. As expected though, the booster came in handy because Korean restaurants don't usually have highchairs, let alone boosters, and her jogger was a life saver at the beach!
We have a Baby Trend Expedition ELX travel system (jogger plus infant carseat combo), the old version. This jogger is quite horrible because the front wheel wobbles. A simple search of reviews on this jogger will let you know right away that this jogger wobbles when you reach a certain speed but I'm not the one who tested it out before buying it so I guess I can't complain. However, if it isn't used for jogging, it's actually quite great. Korea's uneven pavement and no-sidewalk kind of streets are horrible for those strollers with the dinky plastic wheels but this jogger's 12 inch front and 16 inch rear tire wheels are wonderful for rolling over pretty much anything. At the beach, we actually rolled the jogger on the sand to our parasol (and I REALLY wish we had more pictures of this) and it didn't sink in like a car stuck in mud. With the wheels being so big, I also didn't have to worry about sand getting in the bearings, though I don't even know if there are bearings on these wheels. With all the overpacking I do, this jogger let me take all of my unnecessary stuff with me to the beach with Luna still strapped in. I love it. I also had the opportunity to take this jogger hiking several months back. Now, when I say hiking, I am not talking about a 10 degree incline. There were parts of that mountain where it was like a 30 degree incline with a rock laden trail. We went up and down the trail for a total of an hour and a half and if it hadn't been for the jogger, I might have not made it down the mountain! The doubts that I had about having a jogger in Korea all dissipated for sure last week when we wheeled that baby out on the sand. This jogger might not see as much use on a normal basis because of the wobbly wheel, but when we go on our adventures, it is truly a life saver. I guess when I do start running in the fall, I will just have to learn to turn the jogger on a fixed wheel. I am sure that is going to be a circus act until I get the hang of it or run on the Han River where the trail never turns.
Hiking/strolling with the ladies at Namhansanseong
One of the things we purchased for this trip was an inner tube for Luna. Like I have expressed before, I really wish we took more pictures while we were there, or at least before we deflated the tube when we got home. We purchased this at Toys R Us in Jamsil for 23,900 won because we didn't want to buy the infant one for 32,000 and not be able to use it after this summer. I can't say whether this tube was good or not because it was just too big for Luna. The box says that it is for 36 months and up so it is completely my fault for not getting much use out of it at the beach. When you sit Luna in it, there is about 5 inches of space between her and the tube in front of her so I have to actually hold her in the tube. sigh. Luna is totally not used to feeling weightless so she was freaking out in the tube and she had nothing to grab onto so I think that stressed her out even more. The rolling "waves" didn't really help either. The waves were too strong at Haeundae so we tested this out at Geojedo but I think we were in the water for a grand total of 5 minutes before we decided that the beach was too dirty and Luna didn't like the tube. We are going to test this out again soon so I'll put it up when we do.
Annnndddd finally, we get to Luna's pictures! You get to see all the pictures I took of her today because none of them really came out well because she moves around too much and she wouldn't let go of that cup. Happy nine months to my precious baby!
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