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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Main Street USA

I didn't have much expectation for this trip, though I heard some new landmarks were added several months ago. If they are good, it'll be great. If they aren't that good, it's ok too.

We walked in to the park leisurely, in slow pace. I just felt good that we were not in a hurry like the last 2 times we were there. Only this way, I'll be able to look things into more detail.




Nothing special about this marching band, but we stood there to watch their performance for quite a while.



Happen to see Goofy and Pluto show up just in time. The queue was not long, so we lined up to wait for our turn to take pictures with them. Yes, this is certainly one of the attractiveness about Disneyland.

The boys used to adore Goofy and Pluto very much in their innocent years. Nowadays, their new favourite are DoraEmon, Ben 10, and Captain Underpants.

Though not that innocent anymore, they are still crazy about bubbles. Whenever they saw bubbles, they can play with it for quite some time.

Mickey's House was not there 17 months ago. It's great to see some newly added landmarks in this trip. Keep that up, so as to keep the attractiveness.

The kitchen place, very cartoon feel.

Looking at those giant fruits, I wonder if the master of this house is a giant, or those fruits are simply giant?



How I wish this would be my kitchen...

I will sure spend a lot of time in a kitchen like this, to work out my signature dishes.

Sigh, really "shat-lai", didn't mommy always teach you to behave in public premises?

We overheard that Mickey was in the other side of the room for photo session. Great, now we know we don't necessary have to wait under the sun outside there, but can meet him in a more pleasant environment.

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Unfortunately, the worker told us we probably need to wait 20 min to see Mickey. So, we decided not to line up at that time, but to go there again in the next morning. Hopefully, we won't need to wait too long by then.



Anyway, we toured around his house before we left for other place.

We went back to Mickey's House in the next morning. This time, we waited for about 10 min to be greeted by Mickey. He asked the boys to sit on his couch, and they obeyed dutifully like they've seen a policeman. Look how straight they sit up, amazing.

After came out from Mickey's House, we saw this vehicle was parked on the road out there. Since the driver was no where to be seen, this taxicab had become their toy for temporary.

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Uncle driver came back not long later, so he has to give way and be the passenger.

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