Friday, April 24, 2009

Adventure Land

Adventure Land is son's favourite place in Disneyland.

Indeed the first place they wanted to go was straight to Adventure Land and take the jungle river cruise. They can take the ride again and again yet still feel excited over the things they would see along the river.

I don't know about little girls, do they like Adventure Land as much as little boys do?



I wanted to understand why the boys like it so such, so I've tried to see things from their eyes, and perceive the things from their level of understanding too. Amazingly, I felt very different when I put my feet into their shoes.



The trick is simple, just try to see all those as real, and you will feel the magic too. I think that is the reason why children enjoy it so much, for they able to make-believe the things they see.


Adventure into the lost Kingdom of Myth.
















This suddenly emerged mouth-widely-open hippo had scared off a small boy in our boat. The dad got to pacify him so hard then. Poor dad.










Yes, I would say all these are enough to impress the little children, even adults too.




The next destination was to cross the river to Tarzan Tree House. It's the boys' dream house.



While waiting for the raft to come...



Isn't that waiting is the most boring action in this world?



Hello Tarzan, Hello Jane, here we come...



To my surprise, William remember this suspension bridge very well. He said the last time he came, he was so scared to walk across this bridge by himself, that he needed me to carry him over. But now he is not scared anymore...truly a big boy now.



Anyway, he said he is still a bit scared of this cheetah who had killed Tarzan's daddy & mommy.



I love you boys. I will never let any cheetah to hurt you.
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One thing I don't get it...why don't they hire someone to dress in Tarzan & Jane to greet and take photos with the visitors who walked up to the tree house? Can't they find any man who is as masculine as Tarzan?


Well then, here is a good candidate for Tarzan (aahhemm..) Just that he needs to work out a bit to build up the 6-pieces-muscle again.


BTW, he had kept this shirt in the closet for more than 4 or 5 years. I've never seen him wear it all these years. When he finally put it up this time, I could only gave him a thumb-up sign.




Yeah, I would love to have a house that is built on tree top too.




Everything that was put here is not as simple and messy as they appear to be. Instead, they were designed and fabricated in very fine and detail manner. The creator has done a marvelous job here.




I always love those chemistry apparatus, love their unique shapes and accuracy as well.


Beautiful kitchen wares...










He managed to climb up the rope till half way. Not bad, son. You beat me in this.



Waiting for the raft to approach the dock. Really, waiting is the most boring action to do.



Back to the mainland, ok, we gave them 10 min to chase after the bubbles again.



Got free toys for them to play some more...good. But we got to drag them to leave for lunch.



We had had our late lunch in this restaurant located in Adventure Land. It's called River View Cafe. Looking in there from outside, the ambiance looks superb.


Indeed, the dining place is very cool and breezy. Though we were not that hungry, the good environment had aroused our appetite to eat. We ordered some fried rice and friend noodle.
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When the noddles came, we saw some beef slices wasn't cooked well. So husband simply took it away and put it in another small plate. Then, we continued to eat everything till finish. When the waiter handed us the bill, husband pointed to those beef and simply commented that they shouldn't have to be that raw. The waiter apologized before he walked away. We then waited for the change.
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A few minutes later, the waiter came back with another man in formal attire. Apparently he is the manager of this restaurant. The manager apologized for the raw beef, and he really meant it. He, then cancelled the order for that dish of noodle and refunded the money for us. Wow, we were impressed with the excellent service here. Sure, we left the place with a grin from ear to ear.



On the way back to the hotel for checking in, we bumped into this pirate. The boys usually have very clear definition about 'good people' & 'bad people'. However, they don't think pirate is 'bad people'. Well, just don't grow up to be a pirate, ok.



Next day's lunch was taken in River View Cafe again. Well, we just love the ambiance over there. How to describe it? Ok, this is the place when I sit down, I feel like I don't want to leave.
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Also, the price of the foods is very compatible with the foods sold in food court. Foods quality is better too, for they were cook on order, not ready made.
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Another important factor that attracted us to come again is the super-satisfactory services they had provided us on the day before, definitely worth AAA. (Too bad, there wasn't any raw beef found in the foods anymore)
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2 comments:

tasy said...

Oooohh.. i love this place too. We had 2 rides on that boat as well, and I love the volcano eruption effect.

I think the treehouse is very pretty too, every single little details of it were like given attention to it. Yes, I think KS can be Tarzan and that makes you Jane. What a lovely couple!

Oh, how much you guys spent on that lunch, btw? if there were no raw beef? I remembered that place as we used that restroom after the boatride. It looks pricey to me.

Jessy MY Lee said...

Me as Jane?
Wow, never have thougt that before leh. Well, if they paid me, why not, hoh?

The fried rice and fried noodle each cost HKD 68, almost the same price when we go to eat at the food court out there lo..

Just that, eating in a restaurant got 10% service charge. But I think it's acceptable for the better environment and better food quality we get.