Seoul Searching: A jolly good weekend :)

My life in Korea is usually go, go, go and packed to the rafters with fun and crazy times and this weekend certainly was no exception!

Yummy street-food for lunch!

Posing for this picture was one of the funiest moments of my life!
Bless the woman who was trying to figure out how to use my iPhone!
Hehehehehe!

On Saturday, after our Korean class, Stephany and I went to a pool party at the Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon. During my time in Korea I've heard many stories about this daily event and how crazy it can get but no amount of prior warning could prepare me for what I encountered upon walking out onto that rooftop. The main shock is how small the area surrounding the pool is. There are bodies EVERYWHERE! Practically on top of each other! I'm not entirely sure how we made it around the edge of the pool without falling in with the number of people we had to squeeze past and climb over!

Stephany soon became acquainted with the not-at-all-impressed-and-about-to-punch-somebody-in-the-face-Chelsea but once we found our little spot and I dipped my feet in the water, I was instantaneously transformed into the calm, relaxed, fun-loving-Chelsea that likes to grace us with her presence every once in a while. And things only got better as the drinks started flowing. As the afternoon went on the place got crazier. Scantily clad girls everywhere, drunken bouncing around on the inflatables in the pool and some pool side grinding action thrown in for good measure. It really was quite the eye-opener and the first time I've ever experienced anything like it. It's how I picture the crazy American 'Spring Break' parties to be. I always wondered what those parties would be like. And now I know.

Utter craziness!!

...and then the drinks started flowing! :)

Long Island Iced Teas in the middle of the afternoon?
Sure, why ever not!

Drunken fun in the pool :)

One of my favourite pictures ever!

❤

The very next day was another action packed one! I was up at 6am for my Caribbean Bay adventure with Naz and co. Caribbean Bay is the largest indoor/outdoor water park the world(!!!) and located just outside of Seoul. During the month of June KEB (Korea Exchange Bank) ran a special event with discounted ticket prices for its account holders so instead of the usual 50,000+won prices we entered for just 10,000won each which really was quite a spectacular saving! As I'd wanted to go for such a long time I jumped at the chance when I heard about this special offer

One of my favourite parts of the day!
Me trying to pay for the ice-cream with my locker key
...and Naz's "Can I get hana Passion Rainbow" order.
FUN TIMES! :)

We had a fantastic day and the park definitely lived up to my expectations but of course, with such low ticket prices, came the world and its wife and the queues for everything were ridiculous with 1.5hrs being our shortest waiting time. I totalled the amount of time I'd spent waiting in queues that day for the queue to get into the park and the three slides/rides that we went on and it came to six whole hours! SIX HOURS!
Whoa.