Canons at Disney?

One of the areas I hadnt spent any time in before was the castle area across from the Venitian part. I'm not sure technically, what genre it comes under, because it seemed like an English Castle, but maybe it was connected to the Venitian bit. Either way, there are some cafes, a nice restaurant, a movie about Leonard Da Vinci, and some things for kids to do that take them on a tour of the castle, finding clues. Upstairs, there is a ares where you can try out some of his inventions, like his winged "airplane". Daddy really enjoyed the model ships that you could guide around this giant map room, and sometimes there were high winds or rain to throw you off course! Downstairs there was also a ship tethered to the castle, where you could explore, and the dock area was turned into a water park for little kids. We loved the canons most of all. I thought they were just for looks, but actually you could pull them and it would make a gigantic noise which could be heard all across the bay! We thought it would have been better if they made a big splash in the bay! How crazy is it to be playing in Disney. Usually we are riding rides, but actually getting to go and climb on things, blow things up and make things work was so much more fun! I think my favourite part of any Disney Park I have ever been to was in this part of the park! The theme of the Castle really reminded me of England, when we were kids we got to play in the dungeons and the stocks at castles, or with the court jesters, this was just like that!

Disney Sea with Daddy - Arabia

This is probably my favourite picture of me and Daddy from the weekend he spent here. It was taken in front of the Aladdins Carpet ride (like a Dumbo ride) in the Arabian section of the park. The tiger is one of my favourite characters, and you can buy little plushies of him in the park too! There arent many rides for big kids in this area....actually I can only think of 2 rides, the flying carpets and a huge, multilevel merry go round. The area is so lovely, and actually I think they have Indian food somewhere there, but I never make time to try it. What is fun, is that it reminds me of an idealised Middle Eastern town...but of course without the smell, the crime or the dirt. It is literally spotless, even though they try and rough up the edges a little and make it look worn. There even is a nice little market with pretty saris as awnings, and nice Middle Eastern teas! In the heat, I'm sure you could easily imaging yourself somewhere in a hot, desert country town!

Disney Sea with Daddy - Port Discovery

It wasn't quite warm enough to ride the water bumper cars in the Port Discovery area. It is meant to be an updated version of Tommorowland in Disney, and instead of looking like space-age Jetsons from the 50s, it looks very much like Firefly, with the crazy shapes and silver and gold accents!

Disney Sea with Daddy - Lagoon

My favourite part of Disney is the Mermaid Lagoon which is based on the underwater kingdom in The Little Mermaid. Ariel is everywhere, and everything is shell and water themed. I don't think there are any older kids rides in this part of the park, but Daddy and I found the best part of the park, the popcorn!We found sea salt (but with no butter), black pepper, cranberry, rasberry and milk tea. For each flavour, there is a different bucket which you can get and then refill later on in the park. The Duffy one was adorable and shaped like a picnic basket, but, sadly it was filled with Milk Tea popcorn. In the Lagoon, we found caramel popcorn, undoutably the best, which happened to come in a Spring Voyage bucket, which is the theme that was running at that time. I know that Disneyland was doing Easter shaped ones in the other theme park too. Daddy and I ate a lot of the caramel popcorn, mainly for breakfast and then as a snack throughout the day. The queue however, was astronomical, it had to be 40, or 50 people long! I love the shells and the detail in this part of the park especially, so I got Daddy to take some awesome profile picture worthy photos of me with the swirls of blue, purple and green!

Disney Sea with Daddy - Jungle Time

One of my favourite places in the Disney Park is the Amazon/Safari part which is near the top of the park. Generally, I just walk through this area, because the rides for the lines are so long. But thankfully, it wasn't very busy on the Saturday that Daddy and I went. When Risa and I had visited in December, the queues for everything were two long. In the jungle/safari/amazon area there are two main rollercoasters. Raging Spirits, which is a small rollercoaster. We waited in the single rider, and it was great, but the roller coaster was unbelievably slow! I have never been on such a slow coaster! It was nice and loopy, and there was a 360 degree loop in it too! I guess I should have known that it was slow, because we got to keep our bags on the ride! The other big ride is the Indiana Jones one. I was really excited about this, because it is probably the biggest Movie ride in the park. The queue was quite long, but eventually we got to the front where the ride splits into the single rider queue. It is pretty impressive, and waiting in the line was so cool - waiting in the line is almost as much fun as the actual ride! It was a really cool, in the dark ride where there is CGI, and strobe lights, and things failling and shaking tracks. It was pretty awesome, and I'm very glad we rode it! After the rides, we wandered around the area, looking for different presents in the shops for Ella, who Daddy would be seeing in Australia, and we saw these bird characters outside one of the food stalls. I think they are the Mexican birds from one of the Donald Duck films, and I remember Mummy just loving them, so I took a photo of one with Daddy. I love how in character the person was, strutting around and being so funny!

Disney Sea with Daddy - at the front

When we first arrived at Disney Sea, at an unbearably early time in the morning, everyone was rushing to get their fast pass tickets. And although I wanted to stop and take pictures with Donald and Daisy Duck, I am glad that we went and got our Tower of Terror fast pass tickets. So we had to come back and take a photo with the giant earth in the front of the park that rotates kind of like the one at Universal Studios! Lots of people have commented that Daddy got to have a nice time at Disney while he was on his business trip in Asia!

Disney Sea with Daddy - The center

Coincidentally, the only ride that I had ridden last time, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, wasnt working the day that Daddy and I went, but we did go to that area, (where the giant volcano is) in order to buy me some Minnie Mouse ears. I feel so left out without them. So I picked out these cute, very girly, over the top blue ones to match my jumper!