The day started out well. I had a Thirteen unique wonders win. Wahahaha. As can be seen above. My tiles are those at the bottom.

Made myself a bacon sandwich before going for my Chinese class at 11. By the time it was over, I met up with FredBear and we walked around Sheung Wan for a while. This was quite an interesting place and you could all kinds of shops and was a really busy and older part of the city. Then we met up with GAHil for some dim sum. Before that we also managed to visit FredBear's family business. Interesting stuff. We walked around after lunch, and got egg tarts at Soho as well, right out of the oven. Very good, and it was very smooth too. Then we looked for this coffee shop, which was tucked away, where some coffee beans were transacted. Very sweet and relaxing little place, and is really a gem !

By the time we got home, there was just enough time for us to shower and change as we were going to join GABish and some other friends to go to Ocean Park for the Halloween themed celebrations ! We met at the station, and took a bus there. There were so many schoolkids and unikids, that one could get sort of stressed with all the youthfullness around. I have NEVER ever seen so many kids in one place before ! FredBear said he got really stressed. Haha.

We reached Ocean Park at about six and the sun was just beginning to set, making it a really good atmosphere for a Halloween party. The lines were crazy, and luckily we had free VIP tickets to go in. Still, the line was long. You could see some people who had dressed up and of course the theme park itself was selling all sorts of costumes and crazy hats and shiny accessories that you find at theme parks. There was even a whole bunch of friends who wore blood spattered school uniforms. Fun.

Once we got in, we had to push our way past a whole crowd of people and also walked past a pool of flamingoes. It was kinda creepy still, seeing them hardly moving and pink against the dark water. But when we reached the Big Square, it was really happening. There was some kind of Halloween concert with dancers happening at the far end, and sandwiched by two Ghost Houses, there was a huge crowd. With music blaring loudly and the youthful crowd, you could almost believe that you were in a rave party !

We lined up for about 20 minutes in the Fast Lane (due to VIP passes) before we could get into the first Ghost House. The fun part was that people in the line could see into the houses through some video cameras and we could even press the button which made a skeleton pop up and scare the people INSIDE the house. Haha. However it was not so funny when we went in. There were mechanical ghosts as well as real life costumed people. The set was made very well, and it was all dark and eerie, with scary sounds everywhere. Occasionally, the 'human' ghosts would wait in corners and dark areas and scare you. Sometimes I felt that the screams of the frightened people was more scary than the ghosts! Personally I did not feel too scared, it was more like shocked by the sudden appearances than scared.

Either way, we made it through the first Ghost House which was called "Ghastly Entertainment City" and had scary video games with heads popping up from Pacman and bodies everywhere. The second one that we went into was a "Ghostly Estate of Horror". This was more scary, as it was a maze and they would separate people going in sometimes, so you would sometimes be first, or last, or separated from your friends. We also went into the "Grusesome Greenhouse", which had deadly plants, and a Sci-Fi themed "4th Dimension" with mirrors and lasers and generally made you all dizzy. Then there was the "Deadly Doll Factory" which had dolls everywhere and more body parts and big eyed dolls and Chucky lookalikes. Then there was the "Nightmares of Bamboo Theatre" which was Chinese opera themed. So we went through some scary dressing rooms with Chinese ghosts. Lastly we went to the "Tomb of Doom" which had scary Chinese soldiers and terracotta warriors, sandy floors and weird statues.

Along the way I also took a ride on the roller coaster which took about 1% of the time that it took to queue up. Did not love the ride but it was good to go on a roller coaster after a long time of abstinence. I remembered why I did not really like it, and I guess this would be the last for a long time as well. All around the grounds there were masker killers, ninjas, werewolves, witches, butchers, dolls, and any amount of scary personnel that you could take pictures with. In addition to piped in screams and eerie children's laughter, you would hear real human screams all the time from the scared patrons.

The funny part was sometimes the boys in the groups would scare the girls from behind, causing even more screams and laughters, whether in the Ghost Houses or outside. People would also pretend to see nobody on the road ahead, or that there were ghosts on the road ahead. Random screams also drew more screams ! Another funny part was when we were on the cable car crossing the two mountains, we heard another cable car from the opposite line singing the song asking the girls in the opposite car to look over ! Very funny.

By the time we finished it was almost eleven and we had been there for about 5 to 6 hours, mostly standing up ! Dead tired, we took a bus back to Admiralty and then a MTR to Causeway Bay for dinner, as we had not eaten yet. The taxi home was almost a relief and you can be sure that I was very relieved when I finally laid my tired self onto the bed.

But it was a fun day.