Who ever says that Disneyland is for kids? Adults are entitled to enjoy this beautiful piece of land too. My first step into Disneyland Paris was like entering a wonderland. Just like Alice who stepped into the curious mirror, and leaving this reality. It seemed like an enchanting dreamland that did not ever existed in this world, or at least in my world. Walt Disney is a genius. What a dream that he built. Ran a search on yahoo about him and came up with these words "imagination, optimism, creation, and self-made success in the American tradition". His perservance and talents had indeed made our childhood sweeter and memorable. I remembered always pestering my dad to read me the same bedtime story of "Snow White and the Seven Drawfs". Lying by the side of my dad's shoulder with my sister on the other, he would read us that particular story night after night. How sweet. How I wish I am a kid again.
The chilling weather did not affect my excitement to DisneyLand. Christmas mood seemed to have taken over the entire place. Christmas trees with colourful decorations, christmas lightings and rows of Disney shops simply awed me to silence. How can anyone not feel the urge to shop for your love ones? Everywhere mushroomed cute little houses, shops, huts. The little houses of "Beauty and the Beast", "Peter Pan", "Snow White" and "Pinoccio" brought back feelings of nostalgic. It's amazing how much we grew up only remembering half of these childhood stories. It's lucky that we have a Disneyland to visit, right? "Alice In Wonderland" too had its own little maze that leads to the Queen of Heart's castle. Hey, I sweared I saw that mad queen turning red with anger in her garden and her deck of soldiers coming after her! The white rabbit also checked his time to see if he's late in meeting the queen. Haha. I also stepped into Belle's hometown, and met the Beast. The Beast was so big. Our photo taking session with him ended with our heads being his armrest. Wah. How nice of him. Belle, Guston and her friends also performed live, in french. I might not understand a word of what they sang, but it was still very nice.
There are also numerous thrilling and not-so-thrilling rides: a choo-choo train that crawled the circumference of the land, Indiana Jones' rollercoaster that went backwards, a ghosty mansion that sadly failed to scare me at all, Pirates of the Carribean's boat ride that splashed water all over, etc. I thought the staff acting as the pirate really looked like Johnny Depp. Oh man.. Johnny Depp is handsome. Oh my gosh..
The disney studios were also an eye-opener. Not only they educate you on the history of Disney's cartoons and how to draw such animations, they also showed how they created physical effects. I was happily sitting in the train when suddenly there was an earthquake, followed by explosions, and gigantic flood. These effects really impressed me. The heat from the explosion was hot and the water splashed onto me. Thank you. A dragon hid in the London in ruins and breathe fire to my train. Again, I felt the heat. Behind all these dramas were really major works were needed to bring live to our movies. And that's why their movie budgets are always so huge! In the Armegeadon set, all the people were huddled into this so called "space control room" like pigs. Next thing I knew, meteoroids keep striking our control room, making the room in ruins. Suddenly, the whole room just went dark. Okay, we are dead. Weird experience. There's also this indoor rollercoaster ride using Aerosmith's name. In the darkness, it zoomed and turned like don't know how many times. The autopicture taken of my friend and me really made me laughed until I can't stop. Okay, I looked super duper ugly. Because I wasn't prepared for the speed. Haha.
It's amazing how Disneyland represents the reality, dreams and desires of people. Friendships, love, courage, death, sadness, happiness and the possibility of re-living once more. All are possible in the land of Walt Disney.
Well, to think, maybe my helplessly romantic genes came from there. Haiz. Time for a reality check. ALL ROMANTIC GUYS ARE DEAD.
C'est fini.
