Day 309: An Apple A Day...

...keeps Jenny Craig away?

Today was an awesome day!!!

Michael and I slept in and then went and picked up Eric and drove on out to Caribbean Bay!!! Caribbean Bay is the waterpark next to Everland that we visited just this past August. The outdoors portion is obviously closed for the winter season but the inside part is still open. As soon as we sat ourselves down in one of the many hot tubs we all moaned and agreed that coming here to soak in the hot waters was *definitely* a really good idea!

The indoor part is only a quarter of the size of the whole park, but still has several water slides, a small wave-pool, several saunas and hot tubs, and one major surprise... We were quite shocked actually to realize that the Lazy River was still open! The Lazy River is a long, winding artificial 'river' that winds its way through most of the park - both indoors and out! We made a b-line for the river and soon had it verified that you could swim in the outdoor stretch! So there we were swimming and floating along, outdoors, in mid-December! Now how cool (literally!) is that!! :-) It was obviously damn cold when you stood up in the river and exposed yourself to the air, but as long as you stayed in the waters it was quite comfortable actually.

Next to the Lazy River we also discovered three rather 'unique' hot tubs. There were three hot tubs that we each SCENTED! One of them was strawberry, the other apple, and the third lemon. And each of them were coloured appropriately as well! We couldn't resist these, so next thing we knew we were bathing in pink strawberry water outdoors under the December winter sky. It was like sitting in giant pools of Kool-Aid! What was even funnier was the list of diseases and conditions that these three pools obviously 'cure' the bather of. According to the signs, among many other things, the lemon hot tub improves digestion and cleans out the intestines, the strawberry one cures arthritis and cancer, and my personal favourite, the apple one "removes fatness!" Wow! These really ARE special hot tubs!!! ;-)

After Caribbean Bay we went back to Michael's and he made Mexican for us for dinner and then we watched 'Mean Girls' which we've all seen at least ten times already but still love. After the movie we got changed for a night out on the town. We went down the street to meet up with Angele, Meghann, and Meghann's friend Brad at The Rocky Mountain Tavern. The Rocky Mountain is a Canadian pub that looks and feels like one back home - it's full of Canadians and tons of Canuck paraphenelia - flags, maps, posters, jerseys, hockey sticks, and lots of other stereotypical Canadian stuff. It was really relaxed and fun there with cheap drinks. I even ended up running into Emma from Shihung there too. We were only gonna pop in for a quick visit but ended up spending most of the night there.

2 am came round and we finally left. It was too late to go to our original destination out in Hondae so we decided to just stay in Itaewon. We went up the street to a place called Bar Nana which was cool also but very different from the Rocky Mountain. Nana was a very dark and funky, groovy lounge with chilled-out house music. We only stayed about an hour or so and then at that point several of us were getting pretty sleepy. We split up around then and I went back to Mike's to sleep. A fun night (and day) for sure!