An Adventure in Everland

Day 2
October 28, 2011
Seoul

We spent the 2nd day at Everland, Seoul's largest theme park which includes a zoo and a water park. Among its many highlights is a roller coaster named T-Express. The first time I saw it, I knew it would take all the courage I could muster before I even consider riding it. Knowing that it is wooden and that its first drop is the STEEPEST IN THE WORLD (it is almost straight!) did not help. It took us the whole day before we decided to ride it and another hour in the long and winding line. The drop was literally breathtaking, the ride was unbelievably long and cold, and every second was worth the wait.

It was already late in the night, after an hour of travel back to our hotel, that we had time to eat dinner. We found this nice-looking place near the hotel with some good-looking pictures of food (As menus in Korean restaurants are in Korean and the waiters only speak Korean, the only way to oder food is by pointing at the pictures. As for the number of servings, it is best to leave it to the waiter, unless you want a longer conversation). As luck would have it, those good-looking pictures were pictures of chicken organs (lamang-loob). No wonder why the other restaurants had more people.

We spent the rest of the night wandering around the hotel area. Nico tried some of the street games and won (a more appropriate word is 'paid', considering the money he spent to play) a teddy bear.