Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Christian Evans—Colorado, University Studies, Baritone

Disneyland!!!!

Everything about today was magical.

It started with a magical breakfast in the hotel restaurant. They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that one must have included pixie dust or three wishes for how magically expensive it was. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I signed the receipt. I thought maybe I was doing the conversion from HK$ wrong.

Anyway, the real magic happened at Disneyland. We arrived and entered the park. I was surprised to see pretty much the same layout as what they have in Anaheim and Orlando, albeit a smaller version with more Asians. Before they let us run off and have fun we met in a backstage area with Simon. He instructed us about the proper Disneyland performer etiquette and gave us much needed water, as it was quite hot. When the time came we walked out to a staircase, not a stage. This made a couple things more difficult. Smiles and high fives everyone! It really wasn’t too big of a deal except for the 8 or 10 guys that slipped off their stair while dancing during “Tahiti.” Other than that, the performance went as good as could be expected and it was even played throughout the entire park. We returned backstage and collected our meal tickets and coupon for “a free Disney Capsule.” What kind of capsule, you may ask. A time capsule? A space capsule? I’m not sure, I didn’t redeem mine.

We spent the rest of the day exploring the park. Some of us rode Space Mountain multiple times and we tried to coordinate our faces for the picture every time. We also thoroughly enjoyed Mickey’s PhilharMAGIC and of course “It’s a Small World After All.” The clouds magically rolled in as the day heated up which turned it into a perfect day all around.

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