Lotte is an outdoor and indoor amusement park with your usual amusement park rides, shows, mascots, games, carnival food, and even an indoor skating rink (reminded me of WEM). I didn't think today would be so busy, and we had even decided to leave Yonsei at 8am in order to get there when it opened at 9:30, but due to two slept ins, we headed off later. I guess we didn't factor in that grade school students didn't start school until this Friday either, thus the multitude of children, family, and your usual couples everywhere (who love to dress the same... some even top to toe and I'm serious). Anyhow, we chosen today because we wanted to have a memorable leap year, and secondly, as we were foreigners, there was this promotion going on until today that gave tourists discounts at major Korean attractions. So instead of paying 40000won, we got our tickets for 27ooowon, PLUS, when I paid with my Woori bank card, I got another 7ooowon off since it was my first time using it at Lotte or something like that-say WHAT?! only 20000won? that's 50% off!!! I was so happy, it was the start of a fantastic day. Ann was going to pay with cash, but quickly pulled out her debit card to get the deal too.
Lotte has your typical kiddie rides, tamed family fun rides, and adrenaline rush seeking thrillers (mainly outdoors). Similar to the fast past, Lotte has the magic pass which is free, but you can only get one every two hours. This pass gives you a certain time frame to come back and play that ride without having to line up. The best plan is to get a pass for the most popular rides and line up for the other ones that aren't so popular and not worth getting a magic pass for. This way, by the time you finish lining up and playing the latter ride, you can head straight to the ride you got a magic pass for. Sometimes, your cutting it close as you may wait in line up to two hours like we did for the most popular outdoor roller coaster, Atlantis. When we finished, the line was even longer and we couldn't believe we actually spent that long waiting in line for it, but it was worth it and I would definitely go on it again, just not on such a busy day.

For dinner we headed to 열봉찜닭 "Yeolbong Jjimdal" at Gangnam station, aka the mother of Se7en's chicken restaurant. Se7en is a Korean celebrity that is a singer and actor. I have never heard of him until I heard of this restaurant through friends LOL. However, despite this place being well known because it's opened by a celebrity's mom, the chicken here is actually REALLY good. The menu wasn't very abundant and only consisted of their specialty chicken dishes. We ordered a large serving to share and had asked for it to be prepared with the minimal amount of spice. It still tasted spicy to us when it arrived, but the dish was so flavorful and hot that it kept us warm and wanting more. It felt like Chinese soy sauce chicken, but only a hundred times better. The chicken was tender and it came as a big dish with jap chae (glass noodles), potatos!, carrots, onions that were sweetened by the sauce, and fresh green onions mixed in.

It was a long day and we didn't feel like being on our feet no more. So after a hunt for the bus stop heading in the right direction towards Yonsei, we found seats and tiredly waited to arrive the bus stop down the hill from our dorms. It was closer than walking from Sinchon station at least.