Yes, you read that correctly. 
POOP CAFE!!!

This place is a 10 year old boys paradise. 
Here they can tell all their 'potty' jokes and not get in trouble.

To think I paid for us to drink coffee out of a toilet. 
WHAT?!?! 
I guess that is only fair since I traveled 1,000's of miles and paid good money to drink coffee that was extracted from the poop of a luwak (cat). 
WHO AM I?  WHO HAVE I BECOME? 
If you had told me 20 years ago that I would be drinking poop coffee and coffee from a toilet bowl, I would have said you are crazy.
Now look at me.... 
I'm considering opening a new theme coffee shop where I sell cat poop coffee in a toilet bowl for you to drink.

Ddo-ong scones prepped and ready to go in the oven.
I was so sad they didn't have any ready for me to eat.

My sweet little shit-head.

To get there
Anguk Station, exit 6,
straight for about 100M, turn left into the Insadong Shopping district.
There is an open, multi level shopping mall about 200 meters down the road on the left (I'm sure you have seen it in Korean drama's!)
The Poop Cafe is on the top floor.

BUTT, (pun intended!) before you go to the top floor, there is a vendor on the bottom floor where you can get a poop pile of  chocolatey goodness!  Totally worth the 2,000-ish won we paid for it.

Till next time,
Trish

We have been to cat cafes,  dog cafes, a sheep cafe, a camera cafe, an arts and craft cafe......AND
NOW, a RACCOON cafe!!  Are you kidding me?!  A flippin' raccoon cafe?!?!  Oh Korea!  You make me love you more and more with each passing day. 

I know what some of you are thinking.  NO FREAKING WAY.  Raccoons are rabid.  Raccoons are wild.  Raccoons are cray-cray!  Well, not these raccoons.  They are sweet, cuddly, cute and never fear -- Milk (female white) & Kong (male brown) have had all their vaccinations!

 You know what is really exciting?!?  Milk and Kong have babies!!  2 of them!  A white and a brown, sadly they were not available for viewing while we were there.  We were told the babies come in the mornings sometime between 10 & 12 each day.  I'm hoping to go back and see them one day!

There are a few rules when hanging out with the raccoons:
(Written EXACTLY how posted)
 - Please empty your pockets when you enter the raccoon room
 - Don't take the bag and your beverage
 - Be careful not to tease the raccoon, or you can be bitten by him!
 - If anything happen, let the clerk know.
 - Who order take out beverages can't enter the raccoon room.
 - Please push slowly when Raccoons following on you
 - please do not hug raccoons.

To get there directions are just like if you are going to the Lamb Restaurant...

Go out Camp Coiner walk out gate
Take an immediate RIGHT,
then an immediate LEFT.
Go to the main street, turn LEFT and cross the street using the cross walk.
Once across the street turn RIGHT
Walk to intersection with Starbucks on your left, and turn LEFT.
Go through tunnel
Cross the big street.
BUT THIS TIME don't turn, keep walking STRAIGHT until 2 streets come together.  You will know it when you get there.  Cross to the right side of the street. Pass Starbucks on your left side, keep going.  Pass Kimchee Restaurant.....RIGHT AFTER Kimchee restaurant (that is the actual name of the restaurant!) TURN RIGHT and you are here!

They let us feed grapes to the raccoons! 
So much fun...Milk LOVED my hair, before these pictures she kept playing with it and her gentle touch was so ticklish! 

If you aren't too excited about hanging out with the raccoons you can always perch yourself in the table next to the window and which the cute little creatures from afar.  I gotta tell you, they are so much cuter here in the cafe than when you find them in your garbage! 

Till next time,
Trish

I let the kids pick what they wanted to do today and they unanimously picked the Trick Eye Museum so I went back and read my blog posting from 2012 to get some general information & directions to the Trick Eye. 

Later in the day I noticed some eerie similarities from that posting back in 2012.....

"Our day started off rough..." yeah, that happened again.   "Boy's 2 & 3 were fighting..."  yeah, that happened again too.  "I thought I was going to pull my hair out and have a meltdown before it even started..." -- same/same.
"but after a little while everyone forgot they were mad, bothered, annoyed, and upset  and we had a pretty good day playing & goofing around here at the Trick Eye Museum!"  - That happened too!
Oh, and as a bonus, this time NOT ONE PERSON complained about walking too much!  I call that a WIN!!

Directions have changed just a tad since the last time we were here as they moved the exit of the subway station:  To get there by subway take line 2 to the Hongik University Station go out Exit 9 walk straight cross 1st intersection, at 2nd intersection  (McDonald's is on left side of the street) cross the street and turn left.  Pass Forever 21 on the right, take a right at the first street/alley in between Bershka & Tony/Molly.  Walk 1 block and you will see Trick Eye Museum on the right. 

Adults: 15,000
Ages 3-18: 12,000
Open 9AM-9PM everyday

Address: Seoul, Mapo-gu, Hongik-ro 3-gil, 20 서교 프라자 B2 트릭 아이 미술관 B2 floor, Seogyo Plaza 20 Hongikro 3gil, Mapogu

Phone: 02-3144-6300

Just when I think things are going well and my boys are little angels......

This happens:

These boys!  I can't take them anywhere!

The Trick eye is on an alley full of food vendors if you just keep walking past the Trick Eye.  Your kids are sure to love you a little more if you head down the alley and buy them a freshly made churros with ice cream!  YUM-O!!

The end.