Monday, February 7, 2011

Lunar New Year

Lovely hotel amenities :)
Hotel view (left)


Hotel view (right)

Final stage of beetles, yuck

middle stage of beetles, eww

Crabs with awesome colored claws

For Danielle! Has red on bottom side.

Wannabe Cinderella castle

I rode the roller coaster!

Inside Lotte World (left)

Inside Lotte World (right)

Fairies in the parade

Funny dressed ladies in the parade

More parade

Korean dancing

Up close shot of Korean dancer

Cool costumes, right?!

Dancers twirling the streamers




Only man and he has the long streamer
More twirling from the head

Oh aren't we so cute :)

Great gift for Sul Nal (New Year's)
Cute girl in her Hanbok
Another great gift for Sul Nal




Here is our trip for Sul Nal (Lunar New Year's). We went to Lotte Hotel World, which is the hotel for Lotte World. Lotte World is the world's largest indoor theme park, but it also has an outside theme park. It only cost us 50,000 won total to get into the park. At first glance, it seems very kid-like, but it was deceiving. There is lots to do for adults! We were very leery of doing rides because we were afraid that I would get sick. But I took it like a champ! Jeremy first took me on the Drunken Basket ride, which is the equivalent to the tea cups that you twirl in circles.I did fine for the most part. :) We walked around the whole to decide what to do, and that's when we discovered that some of the rides cost extra money. They were only like 2,000 to 3,000 won extra, but we didn't want to spend any more money than we had to. Outside we did go on the big chair swing where you sit in a swing (more like a char) and you go around in circles, we actually did a roller coaster, and then on a whim tried another ride that turned out to be another roller coaster, but underground. The first roller coaster was short, but an extreme thriller! I literally screamed bloody murder right off the bat! But it was completely awesome!! I wanted to do it again, but Jeremy had a headache and that ride probably didn't make things any better. :( The second roller coaster was called Cosmic (blah blah, sorry can't remember). It was all underground with black lights. It was so cool! It was a unique roller coaster because not only did you go up, down, and around, but the whole time your seat is spinning in circles. So at times we were riding sideways, backwards, and regular!! AWESOME! Then we headed back inside to do some more rides, but the lines got long. :( One ride was more than a 20 minute wait, but it was a very short ride. Another one that was like Splash Mountain had an hour wait time! Bummer. We played a video game and air hockey (which I totally won), then left. The day was so much fun! It makes me want to go to Disneyland. Lotte World seems like just a knock off of Disneyland, but Korean style. :)
The hotel was great. I went swimming once, we both sat in the bathtub once, and we watched lots and lots of t.v.!!! :) The bed wasn't very comfortable, but it was still relaxing because we were away from it all. The mall was great to roam around in, and there was bowling, video games, an underground shopping center, a movie theater, and much more.  We even played this one game, which we had no idea what were doing, to win a cow stuffed animal. We just pressed buttons, but we didn't win. As we were leaving, I saw the arrow spinning so I pressed the button, and BLAMO!! The cup that was holding not one stuffed animal, but four, turned and turned until it dumped out ALL the animals!! How is it that the one cup of four that had a stuffed cow in it would be the one to turn and dump them all out?? It was so cool!! I got TWO stuffed cows and TWO stuffed sheep! We laughed so hard because we have no idea what happened or how it happened, but we won!! YIPPEE! :D
For Sul Nal, our boss gave gifts, just like he did for Chuseok. Unfortunately this time, it's a lifetime supply of Spam, with a few cans of tuna and two bottles of olive oil. :( What to do with the Spam, sigh... We are going to try to make fried rice and throw some Spam into it.
We finished our relaxing weekend here at home watching a handful of episodes of Smallville. We got our much needed rest to start off our week. Thinking of you all! Happy Sul Nal!