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Jan18

Orlando Magic (a longwinded weekend, part two)

Posted by Leith in News,Play
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Wohoo! Park day! However, it was raining, so the early start was postponed. Anastasia made breakfast for everyone (she likes to do this) and I needed coffee. We almost went to DisneyQuest, a big gaming centre, but eventually it was decided upon to go to the Parks. We arrived at the parks and hopped on the monorail to go to Magic Kingdom. We got in and went to Tomorrowland. First up was the Buzz Lightyear ride, which turned out to be like a large arcade game that you ride. Once I worked out what I was meant to do, I acquired about 23000 points. After Buzz Lightyear we went to Space Mountain, which was a big indoor roller coaster that took you through “space”. I had a lot of fun on my second roller coaster, although my head kind of hurt from the sudden turns afterwards. After that the group split up and Jen, Chris, Kevin, Anastasia and I went on the Teacup ride, it’s actually called the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party or some such, and I got spun three different ways by various wheels – kind of dizzying, but fun nonetheless. From there we rejoined the others at Pinocchio’s Village for lunch where I had two lunches because I was hungry. ^^ We then went to Mickey’s Philharmagic 3D Show which was absolutely fantastic! Very cool effect sampling some classic Disney films. After the 3D show we went on the “It’s a small world” ride which was a bunch of toy midgets singing “It’s a small world”, in different languages even. Anastasia was somewhat reluctant to go on this ride, but was overpowered by common consensus. It stopped on the last room, and the true horror of the singing toy midgets was revealed. Eventually we were released from our repetitive prison and it was on to the Haunted Mansion (inspiration for the movie). This was kind of cool, starting at the stretching room and moving on to a ride through “haunted” halls, rooms and graveyards. After a not-so-scary ride in the dark with glowing things, we went back on the monorail to Epcot. On this ride Chris, Jen, Anastasia and I rode up front with the driver which was cool. At Epcot we ran to Mission: Space (the mission to Mars training simulation ride). On the ride we quoted Spaceballs and Monty Python all through this which was hilarious. After Mission: Space we briefly lost Jen, but found her to find out her ride had jammed. We then ran to the Rose and Crown pub to meet up with the rest of the family. Some great fish and chips, some Irish Baileys creme brulĂ© dessert and a picture of the waiter later (all very nice) I went to the sword shop with some of the others and ogled swords, chess pieces and statuettes. Then we all joined back up and went to the Imagination rides and rooms. They were closed so we went to Mission: Space again and while some others went on Test Track. We managed to go right to the front of the line, no wait because we went on as single riders. Lots of fun. We then sat around trying to get a hold of the others on the radio (they had to wait in a monster line at Test Track) while Kevin and Chris went on Mission: Space again. We watched a big fireworks display from a distance and so missed all the cool stuff which was lower down. After reuniting with everyone we went on the monorail back to the car and back to the house. We then messed around chatting and making bad Gollum jokes till we drifted off to sleep.

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