Roller Coasters in SeoulLand

Korea has a lot of amusement parks.  A few are pretty big and then there are a bunch of small ones.  I found a coupon for us to get into one of the smaller ones for less then $10.00 each for the day so one day when the girls had off school and Russ was off work we went and checked it out.

The first thing we noticed was how beautiful it was.  There were fall flowers everywhere.

They don't really celebrate Halloween over here like we do in America, but they still decorate for it.

We went straight to the roller coasters and were all very happy when we saw Lucy was tall enough to ride them.  This was her first time on a "big-people" roller coaster.  She was really excited.

Ok, maybe I was a little excited too.

While it wasn't a huge amusement park there were plenty of rides to keep us busy.

The girls were tall enough to ride some of the ride by themselves.  They thought that was pretty cool.

Waiting in line for the pirate ship.

They had the boat divided into two different lines.  One was for the middle and the other was for the ends.  Since I am deathly afraid of heights and because the line was much shorter we went into the middle seat lines.  It was a pretty good idea, we only had to wait a few minutes to get on.

Here is the story behind this picture...the kid in the blue and white shirt was not tall enough to ride the ride, but his parents or who ever was with him wanted to ride, so they left the poor kid sitting beside the ride BY HIMSELF and went on the ride.  Now on occasion, I have been accused of being a little un-compassionate, but even I would not let my child sit on the side and watch while everyone else rode the ride.  He didn't seem to mind though, he was perfectly content to just sit there and watch.

This was one of those rides that seemed like a good idea at the time but we all quickly realized was not a good idea at all.  Remember I'm very scared of heights...so what was I thinking when I agreed to a ride that would suspend me upside down for minutes over and over again a few stories in the air?  It was a horrible experience, I can't even say what it looked like to be upside down because I had my eyes closed the entire time.  Both girls rode this ride as well and both hated it.  Only Russ got off the ride with a smile. 

Plotting the path to our next ride.

This was a very funny "Korean" experience for us...we decided to go through the haunted house.  What we didn't think about ahead of time was that anything that was said would be in Korean.  We figured it wouldn't be to big of a deal because ghosts and headless men look the same no matter what language they speak.  Well, we were totally wrong about this one.  This was a walk through story haunted house.  The entire thing was narrated and from experience I can tell you that if you can't understand the story it really isn't all that scary.  This picture was of our "tour guide".  He really did a good job trying to scare us, but when you have no idea what the story is it just loses some of the effect.  Based on the Koreans reactions, I think the story must have been scary because they seemed scared.

Outside of the haunted house.  

This was a cool optical illusion house with a mirror maze. 

Waiting in line.  Taylor photo bombed us.

I'm pretty sure I have seen one of these somewhere else.  I just can't put my finger on where.

A family picture before we headed home.