The director was wonderful to all the teachers and staff at our school and sent us all on a trip to Everland today! Everland is a big amusement park a few hours away from Hwajung. It was much more extensive than Lotte World, the park we went to a few months ago. We had so much fun with all of our friends!
We went on a few great rides, including the world's steepest wooden roller coaster! It was a ton of fun. Nick and I love going on rides that flip us upside down and make our hearts beat. We goaded a few of the more timid teachers to join us and we all had a blast on each ride. We munched on delicious churros and had a nice lunch all together, also courtesy of the director. It was very generous and a great time.
After lunch we managed to catch their parade, which was surprisingly full of Caucasian dancers instead of Koreans. They also had creepy masked creatures dancing up on these pedestals that lifted up on poles. It was interesting and fun. Then we walked over to the massive tulip gardens and played around taking lots of photos with the flowers, the statues, and all the water features.
Fun photos accomplished, we decided to check out the zoo that was also part of the park. We were a little sad by some of the displays, which had no vegetation for some of the animals. Others were impressive - especially their monkey house, which was full of different types of primates. A chimp was very interested in Nick, and would mimic his faces, sticking his tongue out at us and wiggling his eyebrows. It was funny.
We walked around the zoo portion for some time, checking out the baby tigers, polar bears, lions, tigers, and seals. Then we went into their main Africa house and saw some hyenas, a few wild birds, fed a bunch of parakeets, and then saw the baby lions. One baby was VERY interested in Nick, and came up to the glass and was licking it, with Nick's face squished up on the other side. It was very cute.
We ended our day with a few more rides and then took the bus back to Ilsan. Nick and I grabbed some delicious pork bulgolgi on meat alley and then went home completely exhausted.
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