Spa Valley!

Hi everyone!
Last weekend, we took a trip to Spa Valley! Spa Valley is a water theme park like a Windsor Water Works plus hot springs and jjimgilbangs (hot tubs, saunas, baths, showers). Even though the weather wasn't perfect, it was nice enough to play in the water and it didn't rain :)


Directions:
From DAEGU BANK on the green line (NOT Daegu Station) take exit 2. There is a Paris Baguette on the corner and the bus stop is right there. Take Express Bus 2. (It's red) It will take about 20 minutes. The stop is called "Spa Valley." The bus sign thingy says Spa Valley in Hangul and in English so you can't miss it!

At the entrance.

We woke up early to get there (had to take the subway and a bus ride) and at the ticket counter we somehow got a discount! After buying tickets, we went up to the locker rooms. Our shoes went in the first room of lockers (co-ed), then Jackie and I separated from Fluke to go in the main locker rooms to change out of our regular clothes. We wondered why our shoes went in a different locker, but then figured it out at the end of the day :) Anyway, when we got to the water park area, we walked into the wave pool. The water was cold, but we were making progress until one of the lifeguards blew a whistle at us! Apparently, to be in the wave pool, you must have a life vest and a hat. So, we left the wave pool and headed to one of the water slides. Again, we were told we needed a life vest. We found the area to rent them and went back to the water slides. Some of the slides required inner tubes and others didn't. All the rides were fun and the best part was...there were no lines! A couple times we waited a few minutes, but ya. 


After the slides, we went down the lazy river! Then we lounged in a heated outdoor pool listening to the K-Pop music. Jackie has a waterproof camera so we got some cool water pictures throughout the day. We had burgers for lunch and churros for dessert! I seriously think I have had more churros in Korea in 4 months than I had in an entire year or two at home haha. How did we pay when all we had were bathing suits and life vests??? With our locker keys of course! When we bought something, Spa Valley charged it to our locker number and we would pay the bill at the end!

After one of the rides!

Somehow we ended the ride backwards!
You can see our locker keys on our ankles..that's what the cool people do!

Our life vests made it easy to float and relax :)

Underneath a waterfall thing!

On the lazy river

When it got colder in the late afternoon, we headed to the indoor part of the water park. We lounged by the water jets in the pool, relaxed in the purple water hot tub, and put our feet in the "doctor fish" pool. We each paid the equivalent of $4 for 30 minutes. Doctor fish are these tiny brown colored fish that eat dead skin off feet! It took me about 15 minutes to get used to the tickling, prickly feeling. It was strange and awesome to have my feet cleaned by small fish, but I'm telling you--it worked! My feet were much smoother after 30 minutes it was crazy! I will definitely do it again and hope I get used to the feeling faster because every time I flinched or moved my feet, the fish would leave...and go eat the skin off Fluke's feet! haha

Purple hot tub!

Doctor fish!

Anyway, after the doctor fish adventure, we decided we should get going. In the locker rooms, they had bathing suit dryers! So, we put our suits in the dryers, changed into our regular clothes, and in 5 minutes, our suits were dry!!! It was awesome. They weren't completely dry, but almost...Anyway, we gave our locker keys to the cashier just before the shoe locker section. We paid the bills, then got our key back. Then we could get our shoes out of the lockers! It is the perfect system because who is going to leave without shoes? And you can't get your shoes until you pay your bill! Anyway, it was time to leave Spa Valley, but it was too early to head back to the apartment. So...we went downtown and saw a movie! 

We picked a perfect day because we got there before lunch, it wasn't a hot, sunny day, and most schools had Saturday school that day. We will definitely go back to Spa Valley!