Monday, September 24, 2007
Linnamaki Park, 16th Sept
we found out from buying helsinki postcards that there's actually an amusement park in helsinki. i asked a finnish friend and he said that the park wasn't bad and wouldn't be too bad to go take a look.it was the last weekend that the park was opened since it was gonna close for summer. so we decided to go visit it. i went with the two hongkong girls plus alex, my german friend that i knew from my tutor group and also stays in the same block as me.
entrance was free but it would cost 5 euros per ride. unless we pay 30 euros for unlimited number of rides. so anyway, we decided to go walk around and decide if the 30 euros is worth it.
us at the park!
the entrance.
pooh bear! big pooh bear!
pictures of the park...
me and the big huge ferris wheel.. it's much bigger than the one at ocean park.
so anyway... apparently asians stand out very obviously here. so this swedish girl from the tv station approached us. she wanted to interview us for a short interview. asking us why we came here and what we think of the park. she interviewed me and alex... but unfortunately, alex's part got cut off and it didn't appear on tv! :( boo. but i appeared for like.. 10seconds on the local television channel! it's this swedish channel here for the minorities of swedish people here.the link to the video is here!
http://arenan.yle.fi/toista?id=822069
just scroll to the last few minutes... i'm just right at the end of the part about the amusement park.. well, the whole video is incomprehensible to people who don't understand swedish.. except the part that i spoke! haha. it's quite amazing.. i got onto national tv 2 weeks after i'm in helsinki!! woah.
us with the swedish girl who approached us.
anyhow, alex decided to spend 5 euros to try one of the rides. it was this big building and has this indoor rollercoaster. we couldn't see how it was like but he believed that it should be good. so i went along with him to take the ride.
we took the back row because... i'm supposedly the expert who said so! haha.. nah but honestly, according to my experience from being a ride operator at anaconda, the back seats of rollercoasters are the best!
the area inside the ride...
so anyway, it was just like pitch black when we rode through... and honestly, i must say it wasn't good. like i've tried much better indoor roller coasters man. those that i took in orlando which weren't supposed that great were actually more fun. this was just.. boring. no dips, no surprises, no excitement. just... not scary at all. we both agreed it was worth only probably like what... 2 euros?more pictures of the park...
this was one of the cooler rides i thought.. but i didn't take it because it wasn't going as far as i'd expected. didn't seem that fun.
so all in all,we didn't spend much time there left because i guess it just wasn't exciting enough for us. PKD is much more exciting than this man... and like i said in my interview, the stuff here is more for kids i think. well, saved me 30 euros which was good. but honestly, i really wanna go back to US for the amusement parks!!! i wanna go to cedarpoint in ohio some day!! :)
YuAn® spun on 6:25 AM.
