Disneyland

So, We arrived at Hong Kong Disneyland at about 11:00 AM... (did I mention how cool the subway was to get there?)

We went straight to Space Mountain to get fast passes. The ride is IDENTICAL to ours. Same cars, same track, same reentry. After we rode the ride (we had used the time 30 minutes waiting for our fast pass to walk through Fantasyland and Adventureland to find a place for lunch and take pictures,) we headed back to Adventureland and had lunch at Riverview Cafe. It was authentic Chinese and very tasty. We also had Watermelon juice to drink. After lunch, we went back to Tomorrowland and rode Buzz lightyear's Astroblasters - again, identical to ours. Then we went to Fantasyland and watched the "Golden Mickey's" - A REALLY good live stage show with an especially good Tarzan and Little Mermaid sequence.

After the show, we rode on the Astroblaster (which looks like flying saucers here) and watched the "Disney on Parade" Parade (obviously) before watching "Stitch Encounter," - we had to wait for an English performance of this, otherwise we would have seen it earlier. This uses the Turtle talk with Crush"/"Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor" technology, with Stitch interacting with the audience. Cute.

Then we watched Mickey's Philharmagic (just like WDW!) and the Jungle Cruise (The cool thing about this is that it goes around the island in Adventureland. However that means there are no big boats a la Mark Twain...)

Then we rode the train round trip from Main Street (only stops at Main Street and Fantasyland,) before using our Winnie the Pooh fastpass (identical to Florida's) We watched the last showing of Festival of the Lion King - although it uses the same theater as Florida's Animal Kingdom, the show plot was different - although it used many of the same elements. After the show, we walked to the end of main street to see the "Disneyland story..." an exhibit about the history of Disney parks.

After that, we browsed through the shops and then watched the fireworks on Main Street (a good show - but surprisingly few BIG fireworks... we're in China, right?) Then we did shopping on Main Street. We left the park and walked to the Disneyland Hotel and then took the bus to the Disneyland Hollywood Hotel where we had dinner at the fastfood place and walked around. (My meal was called "glutenous rice with dried meat..." sounds weird but was really good.)

We left the Disney resort around 11:00 PM and took the subway to the hotel... getting back around midnight.

More later!