Last post on USA! I didn't upload many pictures so my posts are rather boring. In actual fact, I really loved it there in USA. It's a tie between USA and UK on my Favorite Western Countries list. Heck! I'll even drop the Western and say that both are on my Favorite Countries list, period.
Love the cold weather, the friendly people, the skies that look totally better...but oh well, like they said, the green is always greener on the other side. This trip made me want to travel the world even more! Ultimate life-long dream.
Disneyland! USA > HK!
The rides and attraction there are so much better than HK Disneyland's. But the
gift shop at HK's wins hands down. I collect cookie tin boxes and HK Disneyland's gift shop sold so many designs that I had a hard time choosing which to buy. In USA's, I searched high and low for them but did not find a single one. ): Scrump stuff were not too popular too? SAD ):
One other thing I love about the USA is that people here are never in a rush! No pushing when queueing, everyone relaxed, people gave way and said sorry or excuse me, they would smile and acknowledge your presence. Not like in HK where you had to permanently get ready your pissed face cos everyone was just so kanchiong and kiasu and would push around like no tomorrow.
Our awesome tour guide! Don't be too quick to judge tour guides. I guess we were really lucky to get him as our guide. In the morning, he brought us to all the exciting rides. By the time we broke away from the group for free-and-easy, we practically sat every ride worth sitting. And while we were riding the rides he would quickly go and get Fastpasses for us so when we headed to the next ride we could cut queue. Saved us alot of time! Plus some people in our tour group didn't want to sit some rides, so they gave us more Fastpasses! His fish flag was really prominent in the crowd so we never lost sight of him.
Another thing is that he is so thick-skinned and always insisted that the staff sit our tour group in the first row for some rides, so we could get the best views.
While waiting for the staff to release the barricades and officially open the park for the day. Look at the amount of people!
Adventureland where we sat the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
Nightmare before Christmas ride.
Didn't manage to get Fastpass for this one so we had to queue! Almost queued for one hour.
It's weird but I never left the hotel room without Scrump in my bag...hahah.
In Disneyland, it's a must to see the parade, especially if you have limited time at the park. The parade is where you get to see all the characters! Otherwise you have to run around and try and find them, if you're lucky.
Went over to California Adventure Park, which is opposite Disneyland. Similarly, the tour guide brought us to all the must-sit rides.
A Bug's Life 4D show! You really felt like bugs were crawling all over you...yucks..For the rest of the rides, I didn't take many pictures. We were too busy trying to buy souvenirs and stuff and catch the last shuttle bus back to the hotel.
The next day we went to Universal Studios, I didn't bring my cam cos I knew there was gonna be a few rides and I would start to feel the weight. Awesome rides like The Simpsons, The Mummy Returns (we sat that 4 times consecutively), and Jurassic Park. I liked the Studio Tour as well. They brought you to the sets of real television shows and movies. Studio effects stuff happened as well, like floods threatened to wash away our tram, cars blew up in front of our eyes, ceilings fell, explosions, Jaws attempted to eat us, How The Grinch Stole Christmas stand-ins gave us a song and dance number and screen murderers chased after our tram.
HAHA. I only have one picture at Universal Studio:
After Universal Studio, we went to The Block at Orange which was 5 mins away from our hotel. Shopping! Bought a couple of stuff, but F21 was a disappointment (I spent the entire trip looking desperately for F21 and only found it on the last night -_-") The next day, we went on a city tour.
