Seoul Land

This weekend I went to Seoul to see the National Museum of Korea with Alex since everyone else didn’t feel like going or something, I dunno. The museum was HUGE, and we spent 3 hours just in the interior and didn’t explore the exterior at all since we were pretty tired anyways and started to walk through the exhibits pretty quickly. Neither of us was interested in pottery or calligraphy, which there were a shit load in the museum. After that, we decided to head to Seoul Grand Park, not knowing anything about it except that it sounded sweet.

So we got out of the subway station and started to wander around, generally following the flow of people since we didn’t know what it was or where to go. As we approached a larger building, it appeared to be a zoo of some sort, but there was a large walking path around a lake so we decided to just start walking around the lake rather than paying for anything because we didn’t know what we were getting into. As we walked around and saw some monkey in an enclosed area and other zoo like features, we came across something called Seoul Land, an amusement park area. It was about $22 bucks to get in and we were debating if we wanted to go in or just keep walking and start on our gift shopping, which honestly feels like a damn chore to us men, but we have to do it eventually for all the ladies back home. We went in since it didn’t look crowded. We also noticed that there wasn’t a whole lot of teenage/younger people there, which was worrisome.

Regardless, the best part of the night was our first roller coaster ride, when there was a “Wet” line and a “Dry” line for the same roller coaster. Being the ignorant Americans that we were and since NO ONE was in the “Dry” line, we just jumped into the “Wet” line and figured they changed the track or something for the wet runs. It was a double loop roller coaster and that was about the only highlight since the rest of the track was a series of bank turns and some tunnels. The real scary part was that most rides in Korea have a height LIMIT, so that really tall people don’t kill themselves in the tunnels and stuff. While on the ride, we thought a couple of trees and the tunnel ceiling were going to chop off our heads, so that was probably the scariest part of the ride.

That’s not the best part though. After the double loop, Alex and I were just waiting for the “wet” part of the ride. We went through a series of banked curve, ducked the trees of death, and then went through another tunnel. Right before the last tunnel, they turned on some water streams that sprayed everyone in the face! WTF?!?!?! The ENTIRE ride, we were anticipating something sweet with water, and it was just getting blasted by some automated hoses in the face! My immediate response was “Well, that was completely un-fucking-necessary!” (sorry mom) I think we were laughing about how absurd it was more than being angry about it.

Rest of the night was fun with other rides and having some screaming contests with kids while we were riding the coasters. Sunday was spent at Hwaseong Fortress, being tourists and climbing a “mountain” aka steep hill in Colorado.

Still doing nothing in lab, so I’m really really bored during the day…