Fantasilandiaaaa!

So I realized today that the name of my blog, "Adventures in Santiago", isn't necessarily fitting because I rarely post about my time IN Santiago.  However, most of my "adventures" within Santiago have been sad and boring tales of difficult tests and getting lost in sketch parts of town that look exactly the same (ok, not true, but that's what the past week has consisted of haha).  In any case, in order to conform with the theme of my poorly-named blog, I will start to post here some pictures of things to do in Santiago if you ever find yourself here on a connecting flight to Buenos Aires, Easter Island, or somewhere else that is actually exciting :)

This past week I went to Fantasilandia, the theme park in Santiago.  I knew that it was going to be sketch because it only cost $15 to get into the only amusement park in Chile--but I wanted to go anyway.  There were 2 roller coasters and about 20 other rides, all of which were complete with cheesy decorations and failing safety regulations.  There was no way that any of the rides at Fantasilandia would fly in the United States.  One roller coaster goes around and honestly almost hits itself on its way down, workers don't come around to make sure everyone is wearing their seat belt (or lack thereof), and rides stay upside down for almost twice as long as rides in the US--to the point where I was saying to myself, "When is this going to be done?" as all of the blood was rushing to my head.  

So although I don't have any good pictures of Fanstasilandia itself, I did let my friend take pictures with my camera on the most unsafe ride ever (afterwards I was honestly surprised that all 6 of us were still alive), and these are some of the gems that she captured while we were there:

...aaaand my favorite because Mallory looks SO terrified... hahaha:

South American theme park... CHECK!  I wonder what flaite things Santiago will give me to do next? :)