Sunday, February 6, 2011

Seoul Again

I am going to skip one day of skiing, to the adventure theme park in Seoul, which was truly magical only because it started snowing.


The waits are very long for rides with some having to wait more than 1 hour (mostly, the smooth slow going rides), but the tour guide gave us 3 'default' rides that didn't need too long waiting times.


It wasn't this one though which needed 30 mins waiting time, which is one of my brother's 'favourite' rides due to the fact that there is a way to 'cheat' the ride; by looking up you do not feel the nausea that one experiences going up and down, effectively either amazing your friends with your sheer strength to G-forces, or spoiling the ride and making it so boring.


One 'default ride' was a monorail, one of the many slow moving rides giving a view of the entire interior of the complex. However the outdoor section of the rail was closed.


There are a lot of shops on the side selling novelty accessories such as nerd glasses and headbands with animal ears of all kinds attached to them (very popular with Korean girls). I didn't buy any because I would probably wear it once and never wear it again.

My favourite ride was the roller coaster which my sister begged to go on. Since my brother is such a wimp and refuses to go on the fast rides, and my parents are obviously out of the picture
I am always forced to tag along with her. So on the roller coaster (aptly named the 'French Revolution') I went singing 'I love Aeroplane Jelly' with my sister for the whole ride. After that, there was no more rides we could go on but I was happy with that.

Afterwards the tour guide told us that we were going to take pictures of world-famous Korean pop stars, so I automatically assumed we were going to meet the pop stars (which actually, I don't know any except by mention, and don't care about). Unfortunately, she missed out the one word 'merchandise'. Pop-star merchandise.


There were several stalls showcasing boy-bands and actor's belongings. However there were no girl stalls in the hallway except one. That ended the visit to the theme park.

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