Disney!!
17 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
in Family, Loo, Noos Tags: Disneyland, Family, holidays, Hong Kong, Loo, Noos
I have been very neglectful of this blog of late. Part of this is due to the effort I have been putting into the exercising component of 12wbt. Other reasons are work being busy, children being busy and plain old laziness. But the most exciting reason was that we spent a week in Hong Kong!
Our first day in HK happened to be Loos birthday. What better way to spend your 9th birthday than at Disneyland! And so that is where we went. HK Disney is a very small park and is only 5 years old. There are only 3 worlds apart from Main Street - Fantasyland, Adventureland & Tomorrowland. This week they are opening a new land all about Toy Story. The benefit of it being small is that you can do it in one day. The other joy for us was that going on a Monday meant that lines were virtually non existent and we could ride what we wanted, when we wanted, ignoring the options for Fastpasses.
We caught the train from Kowloon, changing onto the Disneytrain at Sunny Bay. The train was so cute - Mickey Mouse windows and little golden disney statues all through it.
We walked up from the train station into a stream of people all heading to Disneyland. We were very excited!
And then got to the gate & waited for half an hour to get in. Lots of fuss was made over the first people to arrive at Disney for the day – they were let in first and had some special time with Minnie & Mickey. We had to make do with admiring the statues out the front.
It was Halloween and so the House of Mouse was all decked out in Halloween finery. Disney does celebrations like noone else!
And lots of special halloween goodies to be bought in all the stores.
All the old favourites were there – the boys loved stumbling across the disney images.
The boys weren’t too keen to line up & have their photos taken with the characters – they think they are too old and cool. So instead we went and saw some shows – this was the Golden Mickeys. Most of the speaking was in Cantonese, with english subtitles on the screen, but all the singing was in English. The dancing was amazing! We also watched Mickey’s Philarmagic – a 4D movie. Best 4D movie I have ever been too, the 3D effects were incredible, I just had to reach out & touch Donald Duck as he flew at my head.
We also went on some rides – you can’t go past the teacup & Saucer. Noos wanted to try Space Mountain, but wouldn’t go on his own. Loos was not keen, and as I didn’t feel comfortable leaving him alone to wait for us, we gave it a miss. We did have fun in the Buzz Lightyear ride, enjoyed the orbitron and, just to make my Dad happy, went on Its a Small World – and the HK version is exactly the same as the LA version I went on 30 years ago.
We had some fun with food – tried roast chicken & rice, and discovered it to be full of bones, definitely not the way we normally eat our roast chicken. But Noos had this very cute waffle while I chatted to some people from Melbourne.
We loved our day in Disney – we were all exhausted, especially after arriving very late in HK the night before. We managed to find our way back to our hotel via train & taxi. Loos was asleep by 8, and missed dinner! But what a great way to spend the day you turn 9!
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