Sunday, December 28, 2008

We're going to Dizz Knee Land - 14 November 2008

Continuing our Western Culture Immersion Therapy, we decided to visit Hong Kong Disneyland (HKDL) today.  The Sunday Night Dinner Crowd won't be surprised, given the number of Christmas gifts from HKDL.

A couple of interesting points about the Disneyland experience here - First, they've got a dedicated subway train, complete with special windows and Disney-themed memorabilia in the cars:


Plus, it's evidently necessary for Goofy to sucker-punch unsuspecting tourists.  Here he is, seconds before poppin' me one in the gut:



While it was tempting to retaliate a la Tom Arnold and Hugh Grant in Nine Months (NSFW BTW), there's really no upside to beating up a beloved theme park character.  Someday, though, Goofy - those kids won't be around!!!

HKDL is much smaller than you'd expect - according to the wikipedia entry it's only using 100 acres of the 300 set aside for it.  It's also not very crowded.  We managed to ride Space Mountain pretty much at will.  The only rides that were crowded were those for really little kids.

I did coerce Jennifer into seeing the Lion King show - which she described as "45 minutes of my life that I'll never get back."  It wasn't that bad, and it was interesting to see how they managed to include English, Cantonese, and Mandarin into the presentation.  And the liberal use of fire helped as well:

Finally, here's one for the folks:


It really is a small world after all...

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