Large quantity of awesomeness, copyright infringement, and nudity.

Saturday after visiting the Neruda house, I figured it might be a good time to have some good old fun with some South American roller coasters. That's right, a theme park. How could you resist with a name like "Fantasialandia"? Actually one of the major reasons for going was; it was McKenzi's host family's cousin's last weekend in Santiago. He was here taking math classes, and has to return to southern Chile. He had never been on a roller coaster.

http://www.fantasilandia.cl


This is also the morning I caught a thief. I was on the subway, it was at least 900 degrees, and I saw a guy get on with a sweater. He then proceded to drape the sweater over his right arm to hide his arm, and buddied up next to this Chilean with a stroller. Questions I was asking myself:
Why is it so hot?
Why does he have a sweater?
Who the hell does that with a sweater?
I wonder if I can find a place to get coffee?
Is he really trying to rob that guy?
Does he know I'm searing at him?
Then out loud I said (in English, because I couldn't remember the words in Spanish, and I wanted to sound big and tall)
"What the hell are you trying to do"
He looked at me and proceded to "work" I then told him, "I was watching you" (in Spanish)
He continued. I then grabbed his arm, and told him, "you are bothering me" (again in spanish, I could have used some more manly words, but that's all that came out). He then ran...

What an amateur.

Now addressing the issues (or lack there of) of Large quantity of awesomeness, copyright infringement, and nudity. Oh yah, I almost forgot, zip ties, tons and tons of zip ties. Here's Andres, Mac, and Tati, out in front of Fantasialandia.

Tati's firs roller coaster.By the way, Tati is pretty tall, especially for a Chilean. he's like 6'4" or something, so together we stood out pretty well, and our heads on everything.

Inside the park everything became clear, they use whatever theme and attractions they want.
And yes they were playing the music from the movie, and quoting the movie. We didn't go on this ride, there were too many pirates.

Plush toys
they also had kellogs characters, Mickey Mouse, and other weird Chilean things. But all form of copyrighted cartoon character showed up here.

This next ride is called "Top Spin", because it 'spins', we'll address the 'Top' portion later. Here's Andres and McKenzi enjoying their time.
And here's why (I guess) they call it "Top Spin"
So... we've addressed copyright infringement, and nudity (for those that didn't notice the girl in the above photo had her top spun) and we still have to get to awesomeness and zip ties.

We'll start with awesomeness. these are a couple of USAC kids on the right, on the left is a pretty good screamer of a mullet.
Awesomeness!!!

Now this is a good use for zip ties, holding an umbrella for shade, no structural importance, not a whole lot that can fail and kill people.

These zip ties were holding together (in more places than one) the water raft ride, yes structural, yes they were holding together broken welds. We had already waited in line for like a half hour, so we decided to ride anyway.We lived.

Here's a picture with me in it.

All in all the park cost around $12 US. It was a pretty good time.

The next day, Sunday, McKenzie made lunch, it was AWESOME. We had cheese cake. Thanks again Mac, and Milena for letting us use your house!

Then I played frisbee.

McKenzi's host family also has a piano, I learned to play salsa on it but have since forgotten.