Disney Land

After breakfast at the hotel we caught a double decker RER train to M.L.V Chessy.

We then went to Disney Land today. The Last time I visited I was 9 years old and it was just as magical this time.

We arrived just as the doors opened, so we didn’t have to queue to get in.

The first thing I did was buy a pair of Minnie Mouse ears and then a nice man took our photo in front of Sleeping Beauty’s castle.

We then ran to Adventure Land so that we could beat the queues for the rides… luckily the strollers couldn’t keep up.

Our first ride was of the day was the Indiana Jones roller coster, which I could remember going on 16 years ago.

We then went on Thunder Mountain, another roller coaster with a train / gold rush theme. The queues could have been so long but there was hardly anyone around.

Afterwards we took a steamboat ride around Frontier Land.

One day I want to take a real steamboat ride around the swamps of Louisiana.

After the boat ride we went around Phantom Manor, an ornate haunted house.

It was a bit too dark to take photos in but there were lots of skeletons on the inside.

We headed over to Future Land and went on Space Mountain, an awesome rocket ship roller coaster.

We then went on Star Tours, the Star Wars simulator which left us feeling travel sick.

It wasn't as good as I had remembered.

It didn’t help that Tom tried to drag us to see Captain EO, a 4D movie with Michael Jackson directed by George Lucas afterwards. I stomped my feet and it was time to look around the girly things.

We then went to Sleeping Beauty’s Palace.

It was so pretty on the inside with stained glass windows of the scenes from the movie on them. I wish I could live here.

They had her spinning wheel too.

It was then time to get lost in Alice’s maze.

Tom thought the smoking caterpillar was a little inappropriate.

I remember having my photo taken with these cards when I was a little.

We made our way to the castle in the middle which had a lovely view over Disney Land.

We then caught the train back to the start of the park.

We also had tickets for Walt Disney Studios, so we nipped across the road to the other park.

This park is suppose to be more behind the scenes like Universal Studios would be.

Tom wanted to go on the Cars ride, which was rather disappointing.

The people in the car opposite looked so grumpy even though they were wearing mouse ears.

We then went on Aerosmith’s Rock ’N’ Roller Coaster which was really awesome though it played Aerosmith at us really loud.

We then went to on an Armageddon Special FX tour which had really hot flames shoot out of the roof and nearly singed out hair.

We then went on a trailer tour where they showed us props from films and some physical special effects in action, such as a truck being set on fire, an earthquake and a flood.

There was also a post apocalypse set of London.

Our favourite ride was the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror which was a falling lift.

You get bumped out of your seat and hang in mid-air which is a really weird feeling.

We went on the Toy Soldier Parachute Drop.

We then queued for the RC Racer, which was pretty boring but only a 15 minute wait, which was our longest of the day.

We then headed back to the main Disney Land park.

When we arrived back at Maine Street it was parade time and it was “snowing”.

Mickey and Minnie were leading the parade. Followed by Toy Story, Mary Poppins on a carousel, Alice in her house, the Princesses, Jasmine who was being pushed on a swing by Aladdin and the Little Mermaid, who was my favourite.

The grand finale included Santa Claus and his elves.

After that everything lit up and looked soooo pretty.

We followed the parade up to the castle and then decided to run round the park and make sure we went on all the rides that we’d missed earlier.

First was the Pirates Of The Caribbean ride, where you sit in a boat and get spun around a little pirate town.

We then went on the Mad Hatter’s Tea Cups.

The ride had lanterns to light it up which looked really pretty.

We then had a ride on the carousel.

We then went around It’s A Small World.

I’ve still got the song in my head, it keeps reminding me of the Duff Beer for me, Duff beer for you song from The Simpsons.

We ran so we could take one last ride on Space Mountain.

Our final ride was Buzz Lightyear's Laser Blast which was like laser quest in a ghost ride.