We had planned to go to Everland a couple of weeks earlier than this, during Chuseok, which is the Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving, but we both got sick during the holidays. Tiff at the start and me at the end. Plus the trains and buses were really busy, and we didn't really look forward to getting suck somewhere over night, especially with a dog at home worrying about where we are. We had an hour and a bit train ride to Suwon, and then an hour bus ride Everland. We had a very early start to the day. The weather was perfect. It had been a tad nippy during the week, but warmed up nicely for the day. It got cold again as the sunset, but shortly after that we were on our way home. Everland had a lot of similarities to Disneyland, and not just that it was an amusement park. There was the Global Village ride where you sit in a boat and go again listening to singing and dancing dolls from all of the countries of the world...all of the countries except Canada that is. It's a bitch getting that, "It's a global village after all, it's a global village after all, it's a global village after all, it's a global, global village," song out of your head. Plus other rides like Peter Pan...although not exactly the same, it gave the same feeling. The disappointing part of the day was that we saw some people wearing giraffe headbands with the horns and ears on them which Tiff loved, but by the time we got to the animal area of the park, they were all sold out. And they were still sold out when Nina, another one of our teachers, went a week later. An enjoyable day I would recommend to others in Korea.
The main roller coaster of the park. We didn't end up going on this one. With a couple loops and a corkscrew you can see, I didn't put Tiff through this one even though she said she was willing to go.
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One of the flower gardens in the park. This is the one with the little train you'll see later going around it, and the statues/fountains on the left side of it, which you will also see later. There is a rose garden to the right.
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More of the park.
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This yellow coaster was suspension coaster, with the track above the cart. It was the first ride we went one, and with Tiff not liking roller coaster, with was very brave of her. Second we went on the Viking ship type ride you can see on the left edge of the picture, which is another kind of ride she doesn't like and has never been on. We sat closer to the middle of the boat though.
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Both the yellow coaster and the boat were in America/Frontier/Adventure/Western land or whatever it was called. Who is that mystery soldier....and why is he wearing makeup?
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Yar! Time for ye to walk the plank before ye feel the cold steel of me hook in your back. The Ferris wheel in the back was how we got most of our elevated pictures of the park.
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I wanted to retake this picture...it's a little crooked...but there wasn't another chance to take without hordes of people in the frame. You can see a bit of the outside of the Global Village on the left, the Egypt part.
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Tiff on her horse. You can't go to a place with rides and not go on a carousel.
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JAZZ HANDS! The main building...only building in the rose garden. It was the emptiest part of the park...the other garden had restaurants and a train and things around it, where as this one was just the flowers.
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Some of yonder roses. There was a lot of different colours and types of roses.
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Part of the fountains I mentioned above. There was a larger fountain with large Greek and Roman statues in front of a big stage near this. This is just a smaller fountain, with a number of statues in a horseshoe shape.
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Me in the centre of the second garden. I'm squinting because it's bright.
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The little train that goes around the garden.
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This was a fun ride, but a little bit annoying. It's a bobsled/slide type thing. I was excited because it's similar to a thing that was on the mountain in China but I couldn't ride because of the rain. The bad thing about this was we had to wait to take a chair lift up which forever because, first of all the, the chair lift was slow as hell, and second, even though there was room for 4 people on each seat they were usually only putting 2 people. We realized why at the top. There were three tracks but they waited quite a long time to let the next person start, so the line at the top moved just as slow. It was fun, but I'm not sure if it was worth the hour + it took us to get through the ride.
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We had seen people doing caricatures throughout the day, and I've always wanted one. It was the last thing we did before catching a chairlift to back to the entrance of the park. The picture of me is quite good...Tiff's is a little off...we think it's the nose which throws the rest of the face off. We got the big picture they drew plus two key chains with pictures in them.
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Some fireworks started as we were taking the chairlift back to the entrance.
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