***DISCLAIMER: I know the Disney characters are just actually people in costume ok? Just suspend your disbelief and allow the 8 year old in yourself to believe they're real ***
Silently sleeping... when suddenly...
*RINGRINGRING!* the hotel telephone gives me a heart attack at 6am in the morning.
I pick up the receiver and was about to say "hello" when from out of the blue, i hear...
MICKEY MOUSE!!!!!! EEEEEEK!!!
He gives us a wakeup call and says he can't wait to see us :D "So rise and shine, and i'll see ya REAL soon! HAHA oh gosh!"
i don't even wait for steven, i just shoved him off the bed and rushed into the bathroom to get ready for my awesome adventure in ORIGINAL DISNEYLAND.
"7am the usual morning line up" -Rapunzel, TangledBreakfast first at Steakhouse 55 inside the hotel. Glass of water, an omelette filled with tomatoes and avocados served with a side of fresh fruit and potato wedges - usually what i order at every hotel.
That morning we were the first customers, so all of the servers decided to come by our table to wish us a good morning and congrats on the marriage :D even the guests who were staying at the hotel were walking by and congratulating us! Maybe it's the atmosphere of disneyland, but everyone there is just magically more nicer and 1000x happier o-o
After stuffing our faces, we looked at our map to see what the game plan was for that day. for this day, we strategically explored four lands: Adventureland, new orleans square, critter country, and frontierland. then we eat at the chosen restaurants in either of those areas.
We enter the park... and we were greeted with...
MAIN STREET USA.
"I'm walking right down the middle of Main Street U.S.A.It's the heart of America, the heartbeat of a holiday.The place was made with a magical planAnd just around the corner is a Fantasyland.I'm walking right down the middle of Main Street U.S.A."
We were then greeted by 10 of the PARK SECURITY.. but guess what happens?
"I hear the music playingFrom the old time ragtime bandI feel the whole place swayingWith the people from across the landYou see the greatest smiling faces up and down the streetIt's remarkable how friendly all the people can beI'm walking right down the middle of Main Street U.S.A!!!"They were all wearing MickeyMouse gloves and reach out their hands to high five us ALL IN A STRAIGHT LINE ! :D OH MY GOD FRIENDLY SECURITY???
ADVENTURE LAND.
"Tee dum, tee deeA teedle ee do tee dayWe march alongAnd these are the words we sayTee dum, tee dee a teedle ee do tee dayOh, a teedle dee dum a teedle ee do tee day"
"I wanna know, can you show me, something's familiar 'bout these strangers like me"As soon as we made it to the top we crossed a wooden bridge and i heard the theme song for Tarzan
"Put your faith in what you most believe inTwo worlds, one familyTrust your heartLet fate decideTo guide these lives we see
A paradise untouched by manWithin this world blessed with loveA simple life, they live in peace
Softly tread the sand below your feet nowTwo worlds, one familyTrust your heartLet fate decideTo guide these lives we see..."
then i heard soft music box playing in a tree near by... i peer into the tree room and i see kala holding baby tarzan and looking at a blank green screen. i saw another book in front of my that illustrated a gold baby tarzan, then child tarzan, then adult tarzan. i listen closer and i realize the music was playing "You'll be in my heart"
"For one so smallExcept at this point now i start crying a lot because the figures in front of me was just so precious and-and i couldn't help myself :'( it struck me right in the heart and then...
You seem so strong
My arms will hold you
Keep you safe and warm
This bond between us
Can't be broken
I will be here
Don't you cry"
"Cause you'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more"
- and then i cried even more. we made it down the tree house after i was all cried out, and we started exploring jane and her father's camping area and we started making noises like in the movie. and a good time was had by all.
- After we got off we unknowingly made it into...
NEW ORLEANS SQUARE
- The next ride we see was PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. and because we had early admission (7-8am admission), the lineup was short. We make it inside... and it was complete Darkness. AND it was a water ride/tour of the POTC world. it was very epic. and HUGE. very HUGE. it was like night time inside the ride but it was inside and it was daylight outside o-o and then we saw a bit of the Blue Bayou restaurant thats located inside new orleans square. you can eat in the restaurant and watch people pass by on their boat ride. pretty awesome. because pictures and stuff wasn't allowed, i don't have any real memory of the ride except that i kept hearing skeletal people and some voice saying "...DEAD... MEN...TELL...NO....TALES...." REPEATEDLY... and then i saw davy jones' face appear in the mist o-o like WHOA. and then we actually went downwards like a slight coaster and steven starts freaking out and my seat gets wet from the water getting inside the boat!!! o-o pretty intense ride. and then we hear johnny depp-- i mean.... captain jack sparrow singing "a pirates life for me!"
- next ride we went into was THE HAUNTED MANSION. i convinced steven to come but he doesnt like scary stuff... but from what i remembered from the haunted mansion movie, it was pretty funny. also the VHS tape i have at home shows how ghosts appear and disappear so i wanted to see that for myself. steven hears that and thinks its cool so ok we decide to go in. the butler greets us and tells us 'come in.. be.. UNCOMFORTABLE..." and he creepily laughs at us o-o. we enter this room with a bunch of guests and we assume "oh it's gonna be a house tour" ... except it wasn't. the room began to expand and as the person greeting us starts speaking.. the room expands even more vertically and shows the remaining pictures on the walls and how the person in the picture actually dies... suddenly... the room light goes out. and we hear thunder... lighting appears from the top of the ceiling and we see a skeleton hanging from the ceiling and everyone starts freaking out and yelling like crazy o-o AND THEN... the lights come back on and the skeleton disappears. HOLY CRAP i almost shit my pants then. turns out the elevator led us to a slow ride where we got to see some pretty creepy shit o-o like this bride who kills her husbands but she's actually dead or immortal or something... and then we passed by a graveyard and dead shit kept popping up in my face. ;__; ok the ride was pretty awesome because of the shock factor. but they scared the jebus out of me. we get off the ride and next thing you know we are already in...
CRITTER COUNTRY
- Then as a change of pace... we went on THE MANY ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH. soft, slow ride for steven, nice and cutesy ride for me. there was so much music i sang along to! like
"I'm just a little black rain cloud
Hovering under the honey treeI'm just a little black rain cloudPay no attention to little me"
and other songs like..
"They're black they're brown they're up their downThey're in they're out they're all aboutThey're far they're near they're gone they're hereThey're quick and slick and insincereBeware Beware Be a very wary bearthen we took a raft towards Tom Sawyer Island. the island was pretty relaxing. there wasn't any rides but it was basically a pirate playground island for kids. there were a lot of paths and caves to go into and explore.
A Heffalump or Woozle is very confuselThe Heffalump or woosel is very sly- sly - sly - slyThey come in ones and twooselsbut if they so chooselsbefore your eyes you'll see them multiply- ply - ply - ply ! "
then we took the raft back to new orlean's square to ride on the Mark Twain riverboat tour. It was SO relaxing that steven fell asleep :|
the boat was surprisingly kept very clean.. in fact, now that i think about it, this entire park was clean o-o even the bathrooms and huge stores.. no cobwebs or bugs or dust... NOTHING!
All this happened before 11:15am. we decided to rest for 15 minutes before going to the French Market for lunch.
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The interior of the French market was ultra cute! pastel pink, mint green, white swirls and rose+shell motif's everywhere! it was like.. Sweet Lolita heaven! Food ordering/serving style was like Ikea. so like a cafeteria. i ordered a salmon steak with salad and a keylime pie. My meal also included a biscuit which I used to feed the birds.
"Come feed the little birds,Show them you careAnd you'll be glad if you doThe young ones are hungryThe nests are so bareAll it takes is tuppence from youFeed the birds, tuppence a bagTuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bagFeed the birds," that's what she criesWhile overhead, her birds fill the skies"
After Lunch we headed into....
FRONTIERLAND
It basically looked like a barn with horses and a petting zoo. There.. I MET MY FIRST CHARACTER! WOODY! He was pretty tall so i mentioned that and he gesture "haha oh stop it you". i got an autograph and a picture with him :)
we see the THUNDER MOUNTAIN ride and i coax steven onto the ride. IT WAS AMAZING! ONE OF THE BEST FASTEST RIDES IVE EVER BEEN ON! ... steven however... he was TERRIFIED...
there wasn't much to do in frontierland other than all you can eat BBQ so we headed back to critter country and went canoeing. it was such a workout but i felt like Pocahontas... and i couldn't wait what else was in store for me in disneyland :)
"I look once moreJust around the riverbendBeyond the shoreWhere the gulls fly freeDon't know what forWhat I dream the day might sendJust around the riverbendFor meComing for me"
I had this nagging feeling that i was supposed to do something with the gold heads at Tarzan's Treehouse so we trek back over to the treehouse and climb up once more. i found the book and i touch one of the gold heads and an image appeared on the screen where kala was faced towards with baby tarzan. then i realized that the book could change images to show kala's favourite moments with tarzan as he grew up. like when tarzan was a baby, kala lulled him to sleep and he had a butterfly on his face, and when tarzan was trying to look more like a gorilla by wiping mud on himself but kala wiped it away and showed that both hearts are the same so matter what they look like.. and my favourite one that they showed was when tarzan gave his mother a hug when he was going to leave the world of apes to live with jane in london and he goes "whereever i go, you'll always be my mother" and kala goes 'and you will always be in my heart... by the end of that i was downright red in the face from sobbing.. so much that a lady in the treehouse gave me this really judgemental look. YOU HAVE NO SOUL ;__;
then i had this strange calling to go back towards our hotel so we backtracked and decided to stop by aladdin's oasis.. and there, I MET JASMINE AND ALADDIN! They both congratulated us on the wedding and asked us where we were from. i said we flew in from canada and they were both pretty shocked. then they talked about how to take pictures using picture taking devices. they were pretty nice. i got a pic and an autograph as well from both of them :)
now we're back walking down main street USA. and we see a silhouette outline store. one head for 10 bucks wasnt bad but when we went inside she was on lunch break. so we walked further down and saw a STEAMBOAT WILLIE theatre!! we walked in and saw like SOO many retro mickeymouse cartoons! we were pretty tired from all the walking so we hid in there for a while because it was super hot and we never took a break from the 7 hour walk. plus it was SUPER air conditioned inside. after resting we slowly walked to the entrance of disneyland and... THEN WE SAW PLUTO, GOOFY AND DONALD DUCK! Goofy had to go but PHUTO GAVE ME THE BIGGEST AND WARMEST HUG A DOG COULD EVER GIVE! and then he sniffed my book and gestured... "YOU WANT ME TO SIGN? :D" then he put the book on his nose and signed it. aww! and then i gave pluto a kiss on the nose and pluto was all like LE GASP and covered his cheeks! Then i asked Donald "How's my favourite duck" and he gestures with his feet and looks down "aww shucks".. then he saw my pin and wedding ring, and gestured... "YOU'RE MARRIED??" then he tried kidnapping me and taking me away and gestured to steven "KEEP BACK SHE'S MINE!" and everyone in the back of the line was laughing so hard! i got an autograph and a picture with donald showing my ring. :) very cute moment.
Then i saw CHIP from chip and dale and chip signed my book! i kissed chip on the nose and chip was very shy about it. :3 d'aww..
by then our feet were REALLY killing us and it was 3 oclock. so it was... a 9 hour walk nonstop. we hurried to the hotel for a shower, outfit change, and 30 minute rest.
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back into the park, we headed off to cafe orleans for dinner. but first we stopped by the silhouette portrait store to get our heads done. usually it takes like one minute per person but this old woman.. my god she was so pro that she finished both heads in 30 seconds. like i literally kneeled and was hailing her "I AM UNWORTHY!" she and her shop assistant was bursting out in laughter and ended up red from laughing! i don't think she's ever gotten one but man... she deserved one o-o.
Cafe Orleans was very cute. tiny and quaint. Food was good. had sweet potato waffle fries on the side with a roasted cajun chicken sandwich with tomato and avocado.
because we had some time after dinner, we headed over to a tiny portion of Fantasyland which was nestled in a corner of frontierland, and we got to see snow white, ariel, and cinderella!
Snow White was very sweet, congratulated us and wish us many years of happiness. :)
Ariel really loved my Adorkable Apparel shell top (shout out to my most awesome American Home-slice, and hipster mermaid, Traci Hines!) and my autograph book - it was an Ariel Notebook i got for my birthday 2 years back from Red Riding Hood :) she congratulated us and wished us an amazing honeymoon.
Cinderella was just like in the movie! she was quiet but polite and reserved and graceful. she congratulated us and hope we enjoyed our stay at the kingdom!
we got out and we saw a last part of the parade we missed. the last float we saw was Mary Poppin's float which played supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, and Step in Time.
we were right next to tomorrowland by that time so we decided to take a peek of that area. we went on Star Tours, which was basically a star wars 3D ride. it was a HUGE ASS LINE UP and a one hour wait. and by the end of the ride i was nauseous. but it was pretty funny because it took a picture of someone in the ride and pretended they were a rebel spy to darth vader was attacking our ship...
When we finished, it was super dark by that time and almost time for the fireworks above the castle. we tried to find seats but they filled up so fast so we stood near the back.
The nervousness began to settle in while waiting for it to start. "what if it wasn't as magical as i thought it would be? what if it was just hyped up?" I finally understood what Rapunzel felt when she was going to see the lanterns at her castle.
As i was about to tell steven that i was getting nervous... all the lights went out at the park and the magical display of fire works started.
Fire works shot above the castle signalling the beginning of the show.
Then, just like they do at the beginning of all the Disney movies, a single firework flew over the castle...
"All those days watching from the windowsAll those years outside looking inAll that time never even knowingJust how blind I've beenNow I'm here, blinking in the starlightNow I'm here, suddenly I seeStanding here, it's oh so clearI'm where I'm meant to beAnd at last I see the lightAnd it's like the fog has liftedAnd at last I see the lightAnd it's like the sky is newAnd it's warm and real and brightAnd the world has somehow shifted" -Rapunzel
My protective shield broke, and i could not stop crying like a little baby the entire 15 minutes of the show. but rather than tell you how that show was... how about i just show you the video? the vid will be on my Facebook page, highlighted, and will say "Fireworks."
I cried when Gepetto said he wished for his son Pinocchio to be a real boy. and i cried when the song "Baby Mine" was playing... and the last part of the fire works when they were playing "When you wish upon a star". After the show Steven convinced me that we should go back and rest for tomorrow because there be more magic we need to prepare for. so i cried all the way back to the hotel room after it finished, and i cried going into bed.
Little did i know that i would be crying more the next day :|
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