...BOO Skipped breakfast by accident :|
We took the monorail located in Downtown Disney all the way to Tomorrow Land, which wasn't our destination BUT it was a shorter way to get into the park. This time, our plan of action was to go into Fantasy land and Mickey's ToonTown.
We reach the entrance of the castle... and i am bracing myself to cross the drawbridge... i step inside and i hear Jiminey Cricket singing "when you wish upon a star"... now you think that i should've been all cried out from the day before after seeing mickey mouse... NOPE. I CRIED SOME MORE!
After that little crying incident i realise that i was in a little medieval like part of the park.
FANTASY LAND!
Where all our favourite storybook characters come to life! our first destination? The second star to the right.. or rather, the second RIDE to our right... THE PETER PAN RIDE! we get into captain hook's boat and it was like we were flying in Wendy darling's room and out...
"Up where the smoke is
All billered and curled
Between pavement and stars
Is the chimney sweep world
When there's hardly no day
Nor hardly no night
There's things half in shadow
And half way in light
On the roof tops of London
Oh, what a sight!" - Mary Poppins
... And then we made it into a sea of STARS! WE WERE SAILING THROUGH STARS! FLOATING EVERYWHERE! IT WAS SO REAL! IT REALLY FELT LIKE WE WERE FLYING!
Up you go with a heigh and hoTo the stars beyond the blueThere's a Never Land waiting for you - Peter Pan
There we saw a mermaid lagoon underneath a magic moon, then we travelled into a pirate cave! and then we saw some Indians brave!
After that ride finished, we went into the snow white and Pinocchio rides. it started off innocent and sweet at first.. but then it gets dark... like literally dark... and really creepy... like there were killer clowns ;__; and scary evil queens laughing in your face... monstro about to eat you... o-o so... yeah there was a very little line up for those two rides because they were so scary.
Then we went on the King Arthur's carousel... normal carousel. hey when you're in a park, ya must go on it!
AND THEN WE FLEW ON DUMBO! Steven was scared of dumbo going up and down even though it was a baby's ride. afterwards we had a churro for the very first time and it was soooo freaking amazing! but maybe that was because we skipped breakfast...
We were gonna go see Anna and Elsa but the wait time was 4 hours so we decided to wake early and go on the last day.
Then we went onto Casey Jr. train and... we sat in the cage instead of the seat. it took us around a very tiny village! and it was just like in the movie because they were playing the theme some for the train in Dumbo, and they even included the hill that we had to travel up on slowly just like in the Dumbo opening sequence! THE TRAIN WE WERE ON EVEN SAID "i think i can, i think i can, i think.. i can.. i think.. i think... i.... knewi couldiknewicouldiknew i could YAHOO!!!!" and continued the song until we finished the ride!
After that ride finished we went onto a tiny boat which went through that same village except it was a tour of the village! we got to see the Palace of Agrabah, Snow White's cottage, Cinderella's chateau and her prince's castle... and prince Eric's castle and Ariel's underwater castle hidden in a waterfall! our boat driver was very punny. he kept telling people not to rock the boat unless we wanted to find nemo the hard way. KEKEKE! he also gave us a heads up on where and when to meet Elsa on her own parade float before the actual parade starts.
We made it into the village where all we heard was 'IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL" playing over and over.. and that's when i saw it.. THE WHITE AND GOLD CASTLE HOUSING LITTLE DOLL WORLDS AND DOLL VERSIONS OF DISNEY CHARACTERS FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES! the ride was basically us "travelling the world" via a boat so we were in the water the whole time. notable characters were Aladdin and jasmine who were "flying" in India, Mulan and Mushu were in China, Simba and Pumba and Mowgli was in Africa (although I think Mowgli was supposed to be in India...), Ariel, Lilo and Stitch, and Nemo Dory and Marlin were in the waters of Hawaii/ pacific ocean, Woody and cowgirl Jessie was in America, Pocahontas was also in America... and when you travelled the world all the separate countries would sing their version of "its a small world" in their language.. but then when you reach the very end, you see all the countries together as one singing together and it was JUST SO CUTE!
We finished the ride and made our way into Mickey's Toontown, and took the Toontown train.. only to realise that the train actually also went into other parts of the park and did a circle tour of Disneyland. it also gave you the option to stop at the other stations . our first stop was at tomorrow land where we went into a tunnel to see how the grand canyon was originally... when they had dinosaurs! next we stopped at the Disneyland entrance. after that was new Orleans square. then we went back into Toontown.
It was a little bit after 11 that we started to get REALLY hungry from missing breakfast. so we tried a really huge turkey leg... worst decision ever made. we couldn't finish it, so we fed it to the ducks. mmmm cannibalism *sarcasm*. the turkey leg was too bland, too big, and waaay to chewy. and it gave me a stomach ache after an hour.
Within that hour, we waited in line for the "who framed roger rabbit" ride in toon town. the line up area was really creative. it was basically supposed to look like the streets of new york at night ...but outside. except we were inside. it was basically very dark and had a lot of UV lighting, looked very cartoonish. even the exit sign was cartoonish. once we got into the ride we found out we could control our own car wheel to spin our car round and round!
i wanted something cold because my stomach was beginning to hurt so i ordered a strawberry Popsicle and the cashier asked me suddenly.. "are you a fan of Traci Hines??" i was a little shocked but i noticed that she noticed my seashell crop top from Adorkable Apparel (Shout out again to my girlie from across the border <3) and we were both fangasming at each other about Traci Hines, and then we fangasmed at another Disney worker for like.. 5 minutes. it was pretty epic.
The stage show for Mickey and the Magical Map was about to start nearby at the fantasy land theatre so Steven and i decide to wait in line for it. IT WAS SUCH A MAGICAL SHOW!!!
basically, Yen Sid made a map and mickey wasn't allowed to help create or paint on it yet because he's still an apprentice. but mickey wanted to help so when he tried painting on it he got sucked into the map!! and then mickey travelled into the different Disney worlds in the map and met characters that sung notable songs... like ok for example his first destination was the jungle from THE JUNGLE BOOK and the ape came out singing "I wanna be like you", second destination was under the sea... you can guess what song was sung :P third destinations was a combination of 3 worlds and POCAHONTAS came out singing just around the river bend!!! Then Mulan came out singing reflections.. and then RAPUNZEL AND EUGENE CAME OUT SINGING "I see the light" AND IT WAS JUST SO MAGICAL THAT- THAT.. i cried some more .__. The last stop was new Orleans and princess Tiana came out a la Mardi gras! then YEN SID came out and he told mickey that... HE WAS PROMOTED TO SORCERER AND THAT HE WAS NO LONGER AN APPRENTICE!!!! OH MY GOD YOU HAD NO IDEA HOW HAPPY I WAS. OH MY GOD. MICKEY MOUSE LEVELLED UP!!
After the show i was so happy (even though belly was still hurting)... so happy even that Steven noted...
"Hey Andrea... you haven't been swearing the entire time we were in Disneyland."
me: i what?
Steven: you haven't been swearing
me: well of COURSE i haven't I'M IN THE HAPPIEST PLACE IN THE WORLD!!!!
Despite belly aches, we decided to go explore the rest of toontown. first we went into Donald ducks house.. which was a boat. then Minnie's house, then mickey's house and barn... mickey's house was more interesting. he had a fully operational TV, AND a theatre inside his barn .
and i got to take a pic with mickey again! (... i made sure not to cry this time guys. i succeeded.) mickey was dressed in his orchestrator costume from his old silly symphony cartoons. he saw my ring and he really liked it. :P
WE FINALLY GOT TO TAKE A PICTURE WITH GOOFY TOO!! in front of his house. Goofy really loved Steven's shirt. it said "RULER OF THE WORLD..." but then his caretaker read the rest of the shirt which said "or at least, the remote." and goofy just went "aww darn" but then i said " it's the same thing :P" and goofy liked that answer so he felt a lot better! goofy congratulated us and shoot Steven's hand a lot lol. then we got an autograph and pictures. After we finished pics with goofy, Steven finally tells me that goofy was always his favourite. 0-0 wow. i am learning new things about him every day o-o how. i dun even.
I got nausea from the turkey leg and heat so we rested on main street for like... 3 hours. we found a nice bench under a tree that gave us adequate amount of shade and stayed there. we saw the all American college band come out singing Heigh Ho and played a bunch of Disney classics like the mickey mouse march, and zip a dee do dah zip a dee eh. then we saw.. ELSA AND ANNA'S SPECIAL PRE PARADE FLOAT. it was pretty bad ass because it played LET IT GO! Elsa looked fabuloso, and OLAF was there too saying hello to everyone!!!
A few minutes after that we saw the MICKEY'S SOUNDSATIONAL PARADE! Mickey came out on his float with all his friends, Minnie, Daisy, Pluto, and Goofy, and they were ALL SINGING THE MICKEY MOUSE MARCH!
then PRINCE ALI came out on his float and the genie singing.. yep, PRINCE ALI. then Terk from Tarzan and the orangutan from the jungle book came out with.. SIMBA ON HIS FLOAT. SINGING THE CIRCLE OF LIFE. Then ariel came out on her float and SHE WAS IN A TAIL!! and UNDER THE SEA CAME ON! THEN i saw the rapunzel float and ALL THE DISNEY PRINCESSES except Tiana WAS ON THE FLOAT! AURORA, AND BELLE I FINALLY GOT TO SEE!
Donald duck came out on his own float.. the Three Caballeros.
Tiana came out on her own special Mardi gras float. then MARY POPPINS AND HUBERT CAME OUT ON THEIR SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS AND THEY WERE ALL SINGING STEP IN TIME. then it was over :|
My belly ache was over in that time so we decided to explore sleeping beauty's castle... which was BASICALLY THE CASTLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARK!! EEEEK!
It was just a castle walk through but IT LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE IN THE MOVIE!
Just outside the castle was a hidden door we didn't know about and it has a bunch of swords from the lord of the rings franchise, king Arthur's sword Excalibur, blows and arrows, katanas and samurai swords... daggers... i think the shop was called Castle Heraldry Shoppe. it also included coat of arms for your family, family history of your last names.. INCLUDING ASIAN LAST NAMES. INCLUDING MY MAIDEN NAME!!!!!!!!!
So i got the history of my family name and a certificate of authenticity and Steven got his coat of arms... which is obviously fake but whatever. we can start off with one now because I've always wanted one!
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We went to Catal for dinner, which was a Mediterranean grill restaurant and bar right in the centre of downtown Disney. our server was a really nice old man who frequently came to talk to us throughout our meal.
I ordered PEI mussels with chorizo, water cress, garlic and baby potatoes as an appetizer. (super scrumptious but the spice builds up so in the end its super spicy because of the chorizo.
My entree was the lobster risotto. rice was super buttery.. not my favourite but the lobster with tomato, sausage, asparagus, and watercress was sooo good! we decided to order dessert since we didn't eat a proper meal all day.
Steven and i split a key lime pie with pistachio ice cream. it was super good! i was bad and tasted a sliver of the pistachio ice cream.. ohhh my god why am i lactose intolerant WHYY.. it was so good.. new favourite ice cream flavour. the server wrote congratulations on our plate with chocolate as a sweet (haha so punny) honeymoon surprise. gave him 10 dollar tip.
One outfit change later, we went to see the light+water show Fantasmic in new Orleans square. and SORCERER MICKEY WAS THE STAR! however, Ursula, Evil queen, and Maleficent, and pink elephants tried to steal mickeys show, but mickey fought back! a boat with peter pan and hook fighting and the crocodile appeared, images from Disney movies were projected onto the water screens, maleficent turned into a dragon and ALMOST BURNT HALF THE STAGE but mickey destroyed her. YAY! then all the Disney princes come out with their PRINCESSES! ON WOODEN FLOATS! BELLE AND BEAST, ARIEL AND ERIC, SNOW WHITE AND PRINCE CHARMING... it was so beautiful... and then STEAM BOAT WILLIE.. i mean BLACK AND WHITE MICKEY MOUSE.. CAME OUT ON THE MARK TWAIN RIVER BOAT WITH ALL THE DISNEY CHARACTERS! AURORA AND PRINCE PHILIP, ALICE AND THE HATTER AND WHITE RABBIT, WOODY AND JESSIE... and then the fire works above the castle began. i was prepared so i didn't cry a lot but i did tear up a little bit.
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