First and foremost, happy Chuseok! (Well, belated Chuseok at
this point) I hope you all had a great time with your families if you
celebrated! For those who don’t know Chuseok, it’s essentially Korean
Thanksgiving. Everyone goes home to their families and has a big Korean feast!
Sounds awesome, right? Well, since I’m here without a family to go home to, a
few friends and I decided to do something fun instead of just sit around and do
nothing! We heard that Everland (a huge Korean amusement park) had a huge
discount for foreigners on Chuseok weekend, so we picked up some coupons and
headed out there! It was just myself, Kristen, and a friend Marissa…but it was
a blast!
First, we met at Gangnam station. From there we took a long,
long bus ride. Thankfully we got seats on the bus, but some weren’t so lucky…
These people had to stand for at least 50 minutes straight!
The view while riding there was really beautiful…so many green mountains. I
didn’t get a photo, they all came out blury. (You’ll have to excuse the
not-as-great quality of these photos, I used my hand-held camera instead of my
Nikon camera.) When we finally arrived at Everland, we were so excited we were
practically shaking in our shoes. During this time, they deck out the park in
Halloween decorations!
It was so cute~ The park itself was so pretty and really,
really huge! I was impressed. During our time there, I’d say 80% of people were
foreigners and the rest were families with small children. Since Kristen and I
hadn’t eaten at all that day, we stopped off to get some food. I, of course,
got a katsu curry dish.
Surprise. Kristen and Marissa got other things that also
looked and smelled so good TT___TT
The inside of the building was really pretty too~
I had to take a photo of it because the colors and contrast
of lighting were too perfect to pass up…anyway, so after eating we headed
outside to decide where to go first. The park had different sections that you
walked to, and the surrounding area was so beautiful.
I’ve never been to a Disney park, but I don’t think they’re
as pretty as this was. Huge mountains covered in green trees were all around
the entire park and it made the day feel even better. It was definitely a fresh
feeling coming from the big city of Seoul~ First we decided to go to the zoo
area. We went to a place where they had some animals, they were so cute~
Then, we went on a river ride. The entrance had such
beautiful banners hanging from the ceiling! (Sorry, once a photography major,
always a photography major;;; )
Anyway, so these rides are some of my favorite in the world!
It’s where you sit in a big circular thing and go down white water rapids!
Kinda…anyway, it was so fun!
See, you know these rides. Anyway, it was so fun! After this
section of the park we went to a…like, 60’s America themed part? I’m guessing,
I dunno. Everything was old-timey cars, drive-ins and rock and roll. This part
had lots of rides I couldn’t go on. Since I get dizzy really easily, I can’t do
rides that spin in circles…which was almost every ride in this place. Kristen
and Marissa, on the other hand, could go on them. They went on one that spins
you around and up.
This is them before they got on the ride-o-doom. You can see
the terror just in the background. They really said it was fun…I’ll take their
word. We then moved elsewhere.
Ahh, such a pretty site everywhere you turned. The next
place was “Aesop’s Village”. It was definitely a place for kids, but it had
such a fun Dr. Seuss feel!
They had the most fun ride there, though. We went on it at
least 7 times. They had a photozone, so we kept going on to make the weirdest,
funniest faces we could at the camera.
Seriously, I think I got an ab workout from laughing at some
of our pictures. It was really fun, and the people working this coaster must
have thought we were insane. But we had a blast together here. After being here
for a bit, we moved onto the gardens area. Oh my gosh, it was all so beautiful.
As you can see, they even decorated the gardens with the Halloween
theme!
After this, we moved to the fountain and rose garden~
So pretty! Around 6:30, the sun started to set and all the
themed lighting came on!
We walked around and really enjoyed seeing everything (and
also enjoyed the cooler air that came with night time now~) and then stepped
into another place to get something to eat!
Mmm, pizza and bulgogi spaghetti. So delicious! We really
had good food here for pretty inexpensive. I was impressed, I’m used to the
jacked up prices that rip you off back home. We walked around for about an hour
more before we finally left, exhausted.
I’m going to post some photos of me and my friends, but I’ll
put them under a cut so it doesn’t take up a ton of room!
