Day 204: Caribbean Bay

Our plan to wake up bright and early to head out for our day of fun didn't exactly happen today. We ALL slept in "accidentally" and decided that a later start would be a-ok! Our plan today was for the four of us (Eric's really cute sister Claire would be coming along) to go and have a full day of wet 'n wild fun at Caribbean Bay. I've been wanting to go to Caribbean Bay ALL SUMMER LONG so I was totally stoked to go.

Now what, exactly, is Caribbean Bay you ask?

Well Caribbean Bay is Seoul's hugely popular really giant water park. It's located right next to Everland (the amusement park I visited back in April) so it's quite a ways outside of town, nestled in the hills south of Seoul. The water park is notoriously expensive and crowded during peak season (July to August) but since now it's September and "summer is over" the prices, and crowds, have dropped substantially. Sounds like a perfect time to visit a water park as the weather these days is still quite warm.

Caribbean Bay turned out to be really awesome! It had everything one could want at a water park - a massive wave pool, a lazy river, tons of slides (both indoors and outdoors), tube rides, a wave-board-maker, saunas, hot tubs, a watery jungle gym, and of course, more eye candy than you could shake a stick at! Other than the three giant outdoor slides, line-ups were quite minimal and the crowds weren't bad at all. We waited in line for AN HOUR to go on one of those giant slides and as fun as it was I'm not sure if waiting in line a full sixty minutes was really worth it.

One of the cooler things they had at Caribbean Bay was this giant watery jungle gym. Picture in your head a jungle gym that would find at a typical playground, only it's like three stories high and is full of water guns, hoses, buckets, and faucets that spray at you from 100 different angles. Crazy fun for young and old alike. Well the coolest thing is that on the top of this is a HUGE bucket in the shape of a pirate skull (we're talking a bucket like twice the size of a mini-van!) that slowly fills up with water. There's a meter on the side that shows the water level in red as it creeps up... Once it fills up the buckets turns and spills out its entire load down onto the people below! It's like a GIANT TSUNAMI that comes roaring down on top of you and it feels like you're standing under Niagara Falls for 20 seconds as it pours out. Way cool!

We spent a good six hours at Caribbean Bay and the headed back to Seoul. We got all showered up and then went over to Eric's place for dinner. His mom cooked us an absolutely delicious Korean meal that was simply to die for (I guess it's true that homemade food always tastes better, regardless of the culture!) After dinner we went out for a night out on the town on The Hill. Maeve joined us too and we went to a couple of our regular night clubs. It was an okay night and the four of us had fun but we felt pretty drained from our day at the water park. I think we went home around 4am (early for us these days it seems) and crashed at Michael's place. Good times!