Disney!

Yesterday I went to Hong Kong Disneyland! It was a beautiful sunny day (you'd think that's normal here but actually it had been rainy for much of the week) which lifted our spirits right up, even before we'd reached Sunny Bay MTR station and got onboard the magical Disney MTR train with the Mickey Mouse shaped windows!

The Disney MTR

The park is smaller than the one in Paris (and much, smaller, apparently, than the one's in America) so it's not exactly a thrill a minute, but if you're excited by the thought of meeting Hong Kong-ers dressed up in Disney suits and trying on silly looking Disney hats, then there's more than enough to keep you going all day.

Fiona and a silly hat

Almost as soon as we arrived (after our first silly-hat trying on detour) we found ourselves outside The Festival of the Lion King show, so we popped inside and were just in time for it to start. I've never seen the Lion King musical, but I imagine the costumes and props were pretty similar, and I was rather impressed by them. The story seemed a little rushed, as they were trying to fit the whole of the Lion King into a half-hour long performance, but it was fun all the same. The opening number was Circle of Life, just like we sang it in the Rev concerts last year.

Hanna, Jenny, Alice, Me and Fiona

We managed to get our photos taken with Alice in Wonderland, Mickey and Minnie, and Woody and Jessy from Toy Story, which was slightly embarrassing but really good fun. Minnie even gave me a kiss on the cheek! My favourite ride would be a toss-up between the Winnie the Pooh ride (where you travel through scenes from various Winnie the Pooh stories and they do some very clever pretend rain for the one where 100 acre wood floods) and the Buzz Lightyear ride where you get laser guns to shoot at the evil Zurg and I scored more than anyone else and managed to reach Level 5, which makes me a 'Space Ace'! Sadly, when we went on it later in the day, my gun was malfunctioning and I got zero points.

Fiona and Hanna get the evil Zurg

After the fireworks behind Sleeping Beauty's castle, we had to hop back on the MTR and return to the real world...




... where not much is happening this week! The students are starting their Term 1 tests on Wednesday, so it's all a bit studious at school. Think I'll go back to the magical land of Disney!