Part-two

wow sorry left it so long before talking about our second day at Disneyland. We visited the Studio park on day two of our trip. I've not visited this park before so this was going to be a treat for me, oh and Emily.

We got there early just as the gates were about to open so we quickly navigated our way to Toy Story PlayLand and took our first ride of the day on the Slinky Dog, brilliant! We both thought that that was a great ride, excellent for the very young kids. Next we had to queue a little while for the Toy Soldier Parachute Drop - Emily loved this one, I have to admit I didn't like the feeling at all (see reason for not flying - as this was what this ride felt like). Three of you sit in the row - biggest person in the middle, and it takes you high up and then drops you - you know that feeling when you are in the plane and the plane "dips" a little and you get that feeling in your tummy? Well yeah I DON'T like that feeling.

Next we took the Studio Tram Tour and that was a pretty good experience and quite interesting to see some of the work behind the scenes of a "set". Be prepared to be roasted and soaked on this one ;)

We had to walk past the Twilight Tower of Terror - it looked like an awesome ride - sadly Emily was too small for this one.

Next we took the Armageddon Special Effects - where they theme of the experience is "your in a real set preparing to shoot a new scene" . Bit of a long winded start to get the audience warmed up, and I was quite surprised that even after all the signs saying that if you have small children who don't like loud noises then this may not be suitable.. blah blah... that some couple took their loudly crying and obviously upset small (yes younger than Emily) on this one!! I mean come on - the kid cried during the introduction, the guy leading us through this event kept saying "you know not suitable for people with nervous dispositions..." . Still this set of parents were adamant that they were going to subject their son to this. I'm just glad that it was so noisy inside that even if he was screaming , we didn't hear it! (is that bad of me?)

After we found the Stitch Live show and this had to be the best of all! We entered an auditorium where there were some benches to sit on and a large area at the front where the young kids could sit. Emily was more than happy to sit right in front of the large screen. The show started like a film but Stitch was talking directly and live to the crowd. I have to say we laughed and laughed through this one - it was really brilliant. Stitch was interacting with the kids and adults, making us chuckle as he took the mickey out of one parent, and then made friends with another girl, took her photo and then showed us the photo - how brilliant! Oh and then he swallowed the camera. Excellent - I'd give this one 5 stars.

By this time we were feeling pretty tired with the heat, so Emily played in the CineMagic area - recording her voice singing a Disney tune, playing with sounds and colouring in some of the characters.

Our last ride of the day, or last two rides, were on the Flying Carpets. I managed to quickly get a fast pass (only some rides offer this feature and is well worth doing early in the day as some get booked out pretty early on in the afternoon) , and we decided to queue for the ride in the ordinary queue anyway. Brilliant idea as we managed to get two rides out of it in the space of 10 minutes by joining the fast pass queue after our first ride!

After this we headed back to the hotel, picked up our cases and went to wait at the station for our first of 3 trains back home.

Oh boy we both were exhausted. I think its taken Emily a week to recover :)