Ocean Park Halloween

Hey Everyone,

Sorry for the absence of posts lately. School hasn't really let up since the last time I wrote. There's barely any time to sleep, let alone go anywhere and have anything remotely exciting to share. These past couple weeks have been a tad different. Last week Hong Kong University had its reading week, which was great, until you realized that all the professors assumed that you would have so much more time on your hands. I ended up having more work due during reading week than I've had for any week so far. I managed to make it to school every day that week. That's saying something.

Anyway, enough about school, I wanted to talk about my experience at Ocean Park. I know I've written about it before, but this time I went with classmates to visit their Halloween Haunted Houses. Ocean Park's Halloween Fest is a day and night event which incorporates the theme of Halloween into everything, from pumpkin encounters for the Giant Pandas, skeleton divers in the aquarium as well as setting up four haunted houses. This year Ocean Park had four haunted houses set up: KPop Madness, Murder Factory, and Law Lan's Possessed Possessions (and I don't quite remember the last one).

Of course we visited the aquariums!
Here's a picture of a spotted seal.

As you can see, Z is an amazing photographer,
she managed to get the spotted seal in the picture,
and it looks like its name, a spot!

We had gone last Saturday and wow, was it packed. The queue (no one says "line" in HK) was ridiculously long for everything. The KPop haunted house in my opinion was a waste of time. There was nothing remotely frightening about horribly off key KPop singers... but I think the reason we went in was because someone had said that there was a very good looking guy working there.... sadly he wasn't working when we went in. I wasn't the only one disappointed.

Z and I went on a few of the amusement rides.
 The older rollar coaster rides made me feel
like my head was a ball between the paddles
of pin ball machine. Fun but painful.

The Murder Factory haunted house was the next house we visited. It wasn't too bad. The dismembered body parts were piled high in the corners and had more than enough graphic content to be distracted and not notice the actors jump at you while you turn a corner. While walking through, the girls behind us were screaming their heads off, and at one point attempted to hold onto me... weird right? They clustered together and all of them were shaking like chiwawas. Other than almost going deaf from screams, this house was a lot of fun.

Walking through the recreation of "Old Chinatown"

Law Lan's Possessed Possessions was the last haunted house that Z and I went to before we left the park. It was rumoured to be the scariest, and we were looking forward to it. The queue took an hour and a half to enter, as they only let people in in groups of 10-12 people. As we finally reached the entrance Z and I were excited and nervous. The rest of the people that came with us had decided to stay longer and hit the haunted houses later at night, so it was just the two of us. We thought that as long as we weren't the first or the last of the group to enter we would be fine, as people in those positions got scared the most. Well, when we finally got in, we were the last ones... great. The house took a good 5-10 minutes to walk through, and the entire time we were watching our backs. There was this one actor that had followed us for a good two minutes before returning back to his zone. I would have to say that this house was definitely worth the trip. I was smiling through the entire thing. Some of the places where the actors hid were great, in the walls, the ceilings, or they would just pop out of the walls and get your heart racing. What can I say, I may be an in the closet adrenaline junkie.

When we found out that we were the last two in the line of 12
entering the scariest haunted house

I would definitely go again next year. It was a blast, but to anyone who will be visiting Ocean Park's Halloween Fest, I would advise you to go in the evening. It is a completely different atmosphere and well worth it.

Have a Happy Halloween!