cerealjoe | Gali acts her age, part I (Reply)

So Lotte World... or Adventure something-something. So how was it?

It was quite an adventure indeed! Yes, it is rather big. Yes, like everything else in Korea it has tons of things that shine and blink and all that jazz. And yes, there were tons of people even though it was the middle of the week. By "people" I mean either tiny little kiddies who came with their class or 15-20 year old couples.

At first I thought it would be nice to go on the rides following their order on the map... good idea for the first two but it seems everyone had the same idea and already on the third ride I was well beyond this sign.

But afterwards there was a kiddie show on and obviously I had to watch. They like "cookie olny". I wonder if that was intentional... with so many non-Koreans on the cast you'd think someone would have said something otherwise.

Yeah, that was pretty much the best part of the morning. They finished with this one song I have heard so many times but I can't put a name on it.

There are weird indoor rides like this loop one where you basically just go up hang with your head upside down for a while. The balloon ride looked fun but there were way too many people in the line for me to even think about giving it a shot.

Je maint iendrai. Why the heck is there the space?

There is a part of the park that's outside on "Magic Island". There are the 'scary' rides there.

Since there was almost no waiting line for those rides I did the 'bungee drop' and the "gyro drop' and the turning thingy thing. See my problem is that I'm not that scared of them if my eyes are closed. It's like a shaky car ride... but opening my eyes scares the hell out of me because it seems I have developed a certain fear of heights over the years.

They have kind of copied the whole DisneyLand thing because there are castles and stuff like that.

The guy who was checking the security on this one was so hilarious. He seemed so hyper and had this really cute backpack on (most of the peeps overseeing the rides really looked like they were either bored to death or wanted to be somewhere else or both... so he was a nice change).

I suppose this is the Han River.

The Gyro Drop was possibly the funkiest ride there. You can really feel your legs coming back up when you're dropped. On the ground it's awesome too because about a second after the drop you have the wind wave hitting you.

Then there was the "haunted house" story. Basically a 3D film... only 3D glasses and my eyes don't agree so it's not really 3D for me. But damn, I looked badass and auto-focus in the dark does not work on the new camera.