This Past Weekend

I realized that I didn't say anything about last weekend. It was pretty fun. I went to Lotte World with people from church. For those who don't know (which is probably most of you) Lotte is the HUGE corporation that owns a little bit of everything in Korea...ie - grocery stores, departments stores, hotels, and yes, a half-indoors/half-outdoors knock-off of Disney World. haha. It was actually pretty cool. I hadn't been to an amusement park in about 4 or 5 years. We went at night so weren't there for very long, but we still were able to go on a few rides. Some highlights:

1. The Gyro-Something - One of those free fall rides that takes you up REALLY high and just drops you to the bottom.
2. Bumper Cars - Koreans generally avoid each other on bumper cars. They were scared of us seemingly violent Americans.
3. The Ball Room - Big room. Three floors. Open in the center. Full of foam balls. Air cannons on the second and third floors to shoot the balls...there were a couple all-out battles :)
4. The Magic Donkey - There's this life-sized stuffed, cartoony looking donkey on a pedestal. You put 500 Won (about 54 cents) into the slot and the donkey lifts his tail and craps out a plastic container with candy. BRILLIANT!
5. Laser Light Show - The inside part of the park is so huge that I didn't realize we were inside at first. It's pretty cool. Towards the end of the night they did a laser light show about the constellations. They used all the same effects Pink Floyd used for their shows so it was pretty cool. Plus, they were shooting off fireballs and small firworks. Yup, that's how big it was inside (oh, and JoAnn jumped every time the fireworks went off...pretty funny).

After the park we all hung out for a while, but it was just too cold to stay outside anywhere. I was supposed to go downtown to meet up with Brad and Stephanie for their birthday extravaganza but was way too tired. Of course, I ended up staying up late talking to people online anyway.

Sunday was pretty fun. It was the normal church and dinner afterwards (Korean BBQ. mmmmm), and then Lara and I got everyone to go to a coffee shop. We were there so long that we almost missed the last subway home. It was cool though. Half the table was having a deep theological conversation, and the other half was playing 20 million questions with Jeff Moses. Hopefully they all still like me after that.

So yeah, that was the weekend. Overall, very enjoyable and pretty cheap. I'll post some pictures once JoAnn and Lara send them to me.