Thursday 4 August 2011

Disneyland Wednesday 10am to Midnight

We hit Disneyland at 10am along with 100,000 other tourists. What a mental place the major rides have a 60 to 80 minute line up time but there is a way that you can sort of beat the system and it's called "Fast Pass".

"The Mickey Pretzel about 20cm between the ears"

"The Shooting Gallery where Matt and Dan spent a few bucks early on"
What is "Fast Pass" well you can register on the long rides and your given a time in the next couple of hours where you can come back and get on a very short line like 10 minutes (like booking a ride) only trick is you can only do this once every 2 hours so it is quite tricky to work out which rides to "Fast Pass" and which you will line up for (confused I know, sorry, You have to be there)
The best ride of the day was "Space Mountain" basically a massive roller coaster that runs entirely in the dark so you don't now whether you are about to go up or down or left or right until it happens. Incredible!! we actually lined up twice for this 11am - 70min and 10pm - 60 minutes It's that good!!
The Big Thunder Railroad is another long roller coaster that winds through the mountains behind a train. This was a "Fast Pass".
 It's a Small World and Mickeys Toon Town is there for the little ones too
 Probably the second best ride was the Star Wars 3D ride Amazing 3D effects in a hydraulic capsule!! Only 40 min for this one.
About 4.30pm we left Disneyland and went for a 4km walk to visit the local "Deck and Shoes" shop where the boys bought some DC's Nike and Van shoes. The proprietor loves Aussies and even dropped us back to our Hotel something we were very grateful for.
 Back to Disneyland about 8.30pm Fantasyland in the night - Beautiful and classic
 The Main Street in the night lit up and spectacular.

 Then at 9.30pm we had another Fast Pass for the Indiana Jones Ride where 12 people get in an old Hummer size jeep that wildly smashes you through the mines another great ride and well worth it!!

We then had dinner about 11pm and exited at midnight. It has been another huge day but my boys have been a pleasure to travel with. They are patiently waiting for me to complete the blog 1.30am again. Thanks for reading It's nice to know that we can share a little bit of our time with the people we care about. I Hope that all is good in Aussie and Jakarta.
Love to you all
Ross, Matt and Dan

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4 comments:

  1. Rohan4 August 2011 at 01:58

    Now i do wish i was with you.
    Seeing Fantasyland all lit up....I had a little cry. (I am such a girl!)
    It looks like you had a fantastic fun filled day so that makes me happy (I've stopped crying now to type)and i hope tomorrow is even more fun!
    We bought the 5 day pass rememeber!!
    I bet the guy drove you home from the shoe shop, you probably made his day!
    Thanks fo rtaking time to Blog....it's so much fun at my end.
    Love you x 3
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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  2. Gray4 August 2011 at 08:10

    Hey there, Me too, i can understand if you can't keep this up, but it is almost, well not really, but sort of like i can imagine i had made it with you. Enjoy. And if you see Ennis House, get that picture, :). big hugs for all.

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  3. Britt Bingham7 August 2011 at 05:18

    This blog is amazing Dad!
    It looks like you 3 are all having such an incredible time, I am very very very jealous! But happy to see you all getting to explore so much (and to see you experiencing the 1:30am blog sessions, aren't they fun? :p)
    Hope you passed on my love to all the Disney Princess'

    Xx

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  4. Leah11 August 2011 at 17:46

    I am really pleased to see these pictures at last.Disney land looks awesome.The rides too scary for me though I expect Uncle Michael would have had fun in the shooting gallery.Aunty Leah xxx

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