May 27 - Disneyland

What can we say but - Disneyland is truly magnificent!  Straight after brekky we headed across the road and down one block and entered into the Magic Kingdom. 

Disneyland awaits!

Claire bought a photo album/autograph book and decided earnest to collect all of the characters.  The queues (lines) were often enormous and required a wait time of about an hour to an hour and a half. We think that many people, including students are here - having attached an extra day to the Memorial (long) Weekend.  Memorial Day (Monday) is similar to our ANZAC Day.

 

Claire with Pinocchio.

Big hugs with Tigger.

And the gorgeous Eeyore.

Basically, the day was fantastic. We rode many of the rides starting with Star Tours, 3CPO and R2D2 were the mainstays of this ride - although Claire didn't know who they were.  We didn't even think of it - Joshua certainly knew of them four years ago, but Claire's interests are in a totally different area, and clearly Travis' love for Star Wars has not rubbed off onto Claire.

 

We rode Autopia, where cars are ridden along a track in the outdoors, but being a little short, Claire found it hard to push on the accelerator, and I found it hard to keep it down for such a long ride too.  John's brother, Mike, loved riding this attraction whenever he came to Disneyland and we reminisced about our trip here with him and Travis and Melanie some 30 years ago.

 

Our favourite ride, Space Mountain is not running at the moment - it's being refurbished apparently, and with so many people here today, it was an attraction that was sadly missing, as it keeps hundreds of people off the streets and off the other rides!

 

For those interested, the other rides we took and attractions we saw:  Pirates of the Caribbean - FANTASTIC!; The Haunted House - Claire loved it; the Jungle Cruise (still as lame as before!); Roger Rabbit Spin; Toon Town rollercoaster; Indiana Jones - another FANTASTIC ride, Big Thunder and our final ride, Splash Mountain - which was super fantastic and we got absolutely soaked to the skin.  It was a very hot day today, but after the sun set the temperature dropped dramatically - and we were a bit chilly.  So we saw a small part of the light and water show, and the fireworks which was absolute magic. 

 

When you wish upon a star ... Makes no difference who you are ... all of those beautiful memories (apart from being at the Army at 7 pm on a Sunday night when we should have been at home watching Disney!) came flooding back.  Beautiful memories!