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Title: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on December 15, 2009, 06:02:05 PM
well i am leaving for kent in the morning yipieee and then on thursday a catch my train to disneyland i sooo cant wait and leaving the country for the first time without parennts eep see you all in a week :D with photos and a trip report :D  :D/  

Merry christmas

XoXo

Gareth
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: The Butlin Boy on December 15, 2009, 06:16:32 PM
Have fun! :P
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: 15yearsofMagic2008 on December 15, 2009, 06:40:05 PM
Have a awesome and magical time , mate  :D  :D

Lots of love . And have a good christmasy time :))
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Aveen2008 on December 15, 2009, 07:36:02 PM
Have a brilliant time! I know you will! :D
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: jackieann on December 15, 2009, 10:53:22 PM
Hi.

I am going Thursday to,  Weather meant to be bad snow and -7. so wrap up!!
 :D  :cry:
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Cendrillon on December 16, 2009, 12:30:42 AM
Have an amazing time!! :]
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on December 16, 2009, 09:20:07 PM
hey everyone i have made it to kent after one long 8 hours drive :D and it is frezzing i leave for disneyland in the morning yay even thou i was worried i would not get to go coz i heard about train strikes and then it was snowing here so fingures crossed everything will be a ok :D

see youa ll in a week

Gareth :D  :D/
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on December 22, 2009, 08:42:45 PM
i have made it back it was a fantastic trip to start off with then eurostar broke and i had a bit of stress on my mind coz i was worried i would not make it home for christmas but i did i got back today after a flight becuase of all the back logg people which ment we could not make trains today it was my first time ever flying but i had an amazing time and ill write my trip report asap :D merry christmas all

gareth
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: smurfy74 on December 22, 2009, 09:30:18 PM
glad you got back ok
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Annet on December 23, 2009, 11:24:12 AM
That must have been an exiting turn of events, flying for the first time suddenly.
Glad you had a nice trip, merry christmas!
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: loladelorean on December 30, 2009, 01:54:36 AM
glad you got home safely, really looking forward to your trip report!
Title: Gareth's Magical Christmas *Day 1 Added*
Post by: Gareth on December 30, 2009, 12:14:47 PM
Okay so here it goes my first ever trip report for my 5 day trip that was amazing

After staying at the Travelodge in Kent for I night my dad dropped me and my friend to Ashford international where it was sad to say bye to my family who I usually go with but exciting because I was about to hit Disney land with my best friend, we checked in and 2 hours later we got off the rain and jumped on a shuttle bus to check into sequoia lodge the hotel look so beautiful and was a perfect place although new York is next on my list, we dumped our luggage in our rooms then walked through Disney village to get to the Disney park everything was dusted in snow and it was amazingly beautiful but extremely slippery so I was walking around like bambi for the whole week and it now became my name due to having no balance on ice or busses

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After a quick look around the village we went into Disney park and headed straight for the shortest que which was phantom manor as always it was a great ride and only a 5 min wait which was even better because im so used to quing a min 45mins coz I had only ever been in the summer the out side of phantom manor look sooo different with the snow

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While in frontier land we bumped into woody who was all lonesome which meant we got to go straight and have our photo taken with him which was a first for me coz im always behind the camera but now I have my first ever character photo :D  we also took a look around the round up village which was very busy due to Santa being in town

We then headed to back to main street to watch the once upon a dream parade which was fantastic as always but after the first float it started to snow real heavy and everything was pure white by the time the parade had finished so my camera was not getting great photos. The new Christmas float was awesome and so much bigger than I thought it would be and the elves were sooo funny you could tell they were loving it, and the characters in the parade were loving the snow it added a whole new look to the parade,

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When the parade finished it had gotten very very cold and dark so we headed back to the village to grab some food but not without grabbing so photos of the castle and tree which were both as breath taking as every, for food we ended up in Annette's which is my fav place to eat in the whole resort it was good to be back in there the atmosphere was nice and the waiters were as welcoming and friendly as ever after food we decided to head back to the hotel and unpack and get ready for a super amazing day the day after  :D/

End of day 1 hope you enjoyed: D
Day 2 Part 1 Coming soooon  :-"

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Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: The Butlin Boy on December 30, 2009, 01:01:03 PM
Snow far, snow good Gareth! :P

I'm looking forward to seeing the rest :)
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: never2old on December 30, 2009, 01:29:08 PM
It looks so beautiful with all that snow!!

I'm the same when it comes to walking when it's icy or snowy, I'm always the first to fall down  :roll:

Great first day, looking forward to more!
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on December 30, 2009, 11:35:04 PM
Thanks for the comments hahaha nice pun the butlin boy and never 2 old its not falling its checking to see if the gravity was working :D i had more free time today so here is

Day 2 Part 1 - The Studios

We headed to breakfast where I had some chicken with other bits and was full up and ready for a whole day of Disney, it seamed colder than it did yesterday but I wrapped up with hoodies, gloves, hat and a scarf so it took a while before the cold go to me we started the walk through Disney village where I slipped about 12 times and this is  where I saw icicles hanging off café Mickey I thought I look amazing and made me feel very wintery, we looked in a few of the shops here and I bought some Christmas decoration which were beautiful and wanted to buy everything in art shop, we then went into the candy shop which look as colourful and bright as ever we then made it to the entrance to the studios which was soo busy but once inside it was like everyone had disappeared,

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The studios were dusted with snow and even more slippery than Disney park was the day before this meant ropes had been put up to stop people from walking straight up to studio 1 we had to walk thought the shop then into studio one which was fine by me before we got there early and headed straight for the tower of terror and much to my surprise there was only a 10 minuet wait which again shocked me as it was 120 mins in the summer, even thou I had been on the ride before I was mega nervous for sum unknown reason and in the photo I looked terrified it was so funny to see on the screen , I was loving all the short ques it was fantastic after tower of terror we walked past the site where toy story play land is soon to be and into toon town where we saw Remy with a tiny que so we grabbed your photos and then next to him was Donald which was fantastic, Remy was a bit boring but Donald was such a laugh was a very enjoyable meet and greet, we then planned to go onto crushes coaster but decided it was too cold to join the 2 hours que so instead we watched the art of Disney animation it still a great little show and the montage of Disney is great as always

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We then wondered over to the studio tram tour but due to the weather it was not running so we went and watch cinemagique, this was a first for me as I have never gone and watched it, overall I thought it was good but I prefer the art of Disney animation and animagique which was the next show we went and watched as always the show was great but our seats were not we were right at the front which meant the magic behind the show was more visible than it is from the seat further away I still loved the show and pink elephants are sooo cute and any show with rafiki gets a thumbs up from me after we watched animagique we came outside and loads of snow had started to melt and we headed over to rock n roller coaster this was the best ride of the trip it had a 5 minuet que and the effects were tons better than there were in the summer, we now decided to leave the studios and go over to Disney park and see what was happening over there
 
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End of day 2 part 1
Day 2 part 2 coming sooooon
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: never2old on December 31, 2009, 09:26:19 AM
Great pictures! Everything looks so white, and so icy... The Studios sound great, they're wonderful when they're quiet like that (I guess everyone was in the Crush queue  :roll: )
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Annet on December 31, 2009, 02:20:21 PM
Wow I love the sight of all that snow! But since I'm already likely to trip when the sun is out, going to DLRP with this weather wouldn't be smart for me :lol: Nice report so far!
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Aveen2008 on December 31, 2009, 04:04:20 PM
Hey Gareth, great trip report so far, the snow looks amazing, I feel cold just looking at it though hehe! :P  I can't get over mickey's scorcerer's hat its almost totally covered :shock: !!

cant wait to read and see more!:)
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: SophieD on December 31, 2009, 05:08:13 PM
Great start to your trip report :)
I love the picture of the tinkerbell statue covered in snow- it looks magical!
I'm glad you had a great time :)
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: bigrossco on January 03, 2010, 04:35:41 PM
i love the pics andthe snow just makes DLP that bit more Magical
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on January 05, 2010, 05:21:33 PM
hey everyone thanks for all the comments the next part will be up tomoz :D hope your enjoying it sooo far  :D/

Gareth =D
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: dagobert on January 06, 2010, 08:45:41 AM
Thanks for the nice trip report. I've never seen Disneyland covered in snow. It must have been really cold there.
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: loladelorean on January 07, 2010, 04:08:31 PM
Thanks for posting Gareth - love that you took a pic of Hercules! He is my favourite character and it's v hard to find him anywhere in DLP. He looks very cold in the snow though lol.
Even though the snow up here in Scotland is getting a bit old I would still love to see DLP in the snow, fingers crossed for a winter wonderland when I visit in November.
looking forward to the rest of your report :)
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: jeakat24 on January 07, 2010, 04:46:51 PM
Quote from: "loladelorean"Even though the snow up here in Scotland is getting a bit old

I bet it is! Scotland has had so much! We've only had what can only be described as a light sprinkling of snow, very annoying!

I'm loving the report so far, can't wait for more!
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas *updated*
Post by: Gareth on January 09, 2010, 12:33:52 PM
After a great morning is the studios we decided to head to Disneyland park, headed for adventure land and grabbed a couple pictures of the castle as the sun as out and the clouds had gone was a very great and welcome change, in adventureland we looked in a few shops and headed for adventure isle and the lake by the pirate ship was beginning to freeze it looked great,

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After a quick look around adventure isle we went into fantasy land where we just strolled around some shops and I grabbed some more photos, we went and qued for the tea cups which were the first time I had been on them and they were fun and quite a lot faster than I thought they were going to be

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After the tea cup we decided to head back to the hotel and get ready for buffalo bills wild west show I was so excited to go back here and couldn't wait to have more cornbread, after a quick change and sequoia we went and got out seat which were really good in the second row, and we were the blue team. Seeing Mickey and friends in the show was a nice change and as always the show was fantastic. Before the show we were given a little juice cocktail which was real sweet and tasty, Also the food was great chilli followed by chicken and some other meats and ice cream and apple crumble and then we had a little mini muffin and slice of something both were really nice.

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When buffalo bills finished we decided that we were going to call it a day but not till after another look around the shops in the village, in the candy shop I bought my little brother a bubble gum ball machine with Mickey sat on top it was soo cool I loved and so did he. When we were walking past hotel new York the ice rink was open and I decided to pass on going on it coz I can barley walk on ice in my trainers loll but I did take a photo which was good enough for me, when we got back to the hotel we decided to grab a drink and then we headed back to our room where high school musical was one so we watched that and headed to sleep

End of day 2
Day 3 part 1 coming soon

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Thanks for reading XoxO
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: norhel on January 09, 2010, 12:42:26 PM
Like the photos. Especially those from Buffalo Bill and Hotel New York.
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: never2old on January 14, 2010, 08:41:31 PM
Gorgeous pictures there!!

Great report, looking forward to day 3!
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: kmara on January 17, 2010, 07:36:34 AM
great report and pictures!
I really like the ones of the castle; there is something really special about the light.

thanks for posting!
Title: Gareth's Magical Christmas Day 3 coming tomoz
Post by: Gareth on January 17, 2010, 10:45:42 PM
hey everyone thanks for the great comments day 3 will be up tomoz when i finish uni hope you all having a magical time XOxo

Gareth
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: dagobert on January 18, 2010, 08:31:56 AM
Great trip report and your pictures are beautiful!! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on January 18, 2010, 08:01:39 PM
Today was the day we had managed to have a fantasyland breakfast and it was nice to eat in the park and although the food was no different I enjoyed eating and heading straight for some rides. To kick off the day we headed into discovery land and were lucky enough to get straight onto buzz lighter laser blast. This was my second time on the ride and I did pretty terrible only scoring 5000 points it kind of became a joke for the rest of the day but gave a few good giggles. The buzz ride id fantastic and I love the layout and all toys and stuff you see in the line was a great start to the day.

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After buzz we headed over to star tours this was the first time that I have been on this ride and it was a good ride but im not a star wars fan so it did not appeal to me a whole lot, after this my friend need the loo (tmi I know but it is going somewhere) so we headed to cinema Mickey the cartoons were good but I ended up watching on I had seen back home and iv not even seen that many. As we left the sun had popped out for a bit and I managed to get some nice photos of space mountains and the ship that I can never remember how to spell ? next it was time for honey I shrunk the audience which had been pimped out with new glasses or I think they were new well they were new from 2008 they were no longer red and blue but grey like in the cinemas and I was also lucky because all the effect were working in my seat I still love this show and think it is fantastic.

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After we finished up in discovery land we made are way over to frontier land to check out Mickey's winter wonderland. We got some good seats for the show but I was freezing while watching this, the show featured so many opportunities for great photos but my camera decided to die half way through which sucked because I am a bit of a photoaholic lol the show itself was great and the ice skating was brilliant I would definitely watch it again.

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After Mickey's winter wonderland we decided to head back over to hotel so that I did not miss anything without my camera while we spent the afternoon in the hotel so the camera could charge we checked out the shop which was a nice little shop and the rest of the hotel and headed back to Disney village for dinner, tonight we decided to eat in rainforest café which was the best food I had for the whole trip. The atmosphere was great it was something that I would 100% tell everyone to do at least once.

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After dinner we decided we were going to go back into the park and stay till after fantalusion so while we waited we rode it's a small world with it Christmas layover which was a nice change and the best thing about this ride is that there is so much on it you see something different every single time which I good because it never gets old. The ride was as beautiful as every and it even had a real life duck flying around on the inside which was different to see but it must have been terrified.

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After we went on it's a small world we ran over to pirates of the Caribbean and there was no que but the person who was working the gates squeezed us into a pack boat making the ride very uncomfortable but we decided that we would enjoy it and come back for another ride later on in the week, like always it was a awesome ride and the smell made me smile as sad as the sounds lol I got a few photos on this ride but I don't really like to use flash on darker rides but pretty much everyone on our boat was so I figured a few photos would not hurt.

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After pirates we went to grab some great spots for fantalusion but as we were waiting we were told that due to the snow it had be called off which was sad because it ment we did not see it for the week because every time we went to watch it was not on same as Mickey magical party time. So we decided that we were going to go to frontier land and hit big thunder mountain which was epic as always and a little girl was screaming sooo much that everyone getting off the ride was like did you hear that girl. After this we headed over to Indiana Jones and we got to walk stright onto the ride it was great and was so much better in the dark. Now we decided to head back to the room and on the way I got a phone from my mum saying that the eurostar had broken which kicked off a little panic but everything paned out fine in the end and when I hung up we walkthrough the castle and everyone was stood looking at it and point and as we turned around it had been illuminated with 1000s of lights which look beyond amazing my jaw hit the ground and it put the smile back on my face.

End of day 3
Day 4 coming sooooon: D
Thanks for reading and commenting

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Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: dagobert on January 18, 2010, 08:17:25 PM
Again nice report and pictures!
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Annet on January 18, 2010, 08:19:28 PM
I love Mickey's Winter Wonderland, it's been almost 4 years since I saw that show.
Does anybody know if it's still on during my next visit, around the 12th of march?

Great pictures Gareth, I also love the Rainbow Forest Cafe, with the fishtanks and stuff :)
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: pink_danio on January 18, 2010, 08:44:01 PM
Wow, great report loving all  the photos too!! Looks chilly though.
Sounds like you had a really good time too
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: never2old on January 18, 2010, 10:11:11 PM
Great update with some great pictures! The one of the Hyperion (that's the name of the ship btw)  and the Space Mountain, all covered in snow, is stunning! And that last one of the Castle, all lit up... Beautiful!

Thank you for sharing with us, looking forward to more!
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas *day for coming tomoz*
Post by: Gareth on January 22, 2010, 11:18:20 PM
Hey guys and girls thanks for the amazing comments day 4 will be up tomoz :D now that finance work is done see you all soon :D
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on January 23, 2010, 10:36:55 PM
Day 4

Today started very early as we decided that we were going to go into fantasyland and get the rides done there during the extra magic hours and then move on to shopping in the afternoon and chuck in a few shows and parades, unlucky for us it was another snowy day so within an hour in the park it had gone from its normal self back to being coated in snow leading to the party train, Mickey's magical party time and fantalusion all the called off for the day but here is what we did end up doing. The park was beyond quiet when we got there main street was basically empty and it was such a good way to see the park it was fantastic.

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After a walk up the very quiet main street we headed for the peterpan ride which I still love and it had no que what so ever, the ride was as good as it always was but I little bit more jittery than I remember it being but still a good ride on the whole, next we hit the tea cups which were surprisingly fast but also another great ride and great themeing. As we walked through fantasy land we saw that the lakes were completely frozen it was like something of a fairytale

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We now decided to go que for Pinocchio before it opened and got a huge que so for 5 mins we qued and then it was ride time, this is the best imho in fantasyland it could be because Pinocchio in my fav Disney film but the ride is super and I was lucky to get some rlly nice photos on it which now fill up my photo album, the candy fair scene looks fantastic and the models are also all in very good quality which is nice to see

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After Pinocchio we ran to snow white which was a lot busier we waited for about 10 mins here and the rode it again it's a another strong ride but im not a big fan of princesses so Pinocchio won on the battle of the 3 story book rides :D, when we came out of snow-white it had begun to snow which looked soo nice and in to time everything was white again great for photos not so great for getting home which was a bit of a panic now but we still decided to wait it out and we headed for the castle seeing as we had not been here yet during our stay

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The castle is as pretty as ever and although iv never been to WDW (im working on getting my parents to want to go this year) I think our castle wins :D inside was soo full but it always is and like always the windows were gorgeous and the view from outside was soo nice to look over a very quiet fantasyland it really is a lot more special when you feel like the only ones in the park.

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After we looked around the castle we headed into the shop on the lower level of it where I bought a number of Christmas decoration for my tree when I got home and they were all so pretty it did not bother me 1 tiny bit about paying 7 Euros and up for them just because I knew they were going to look fantastic I also saw a snow globe that I have loved for years (the pirate ship with all the diff character on) and I decided that I was going to save money back for it and pick it up on my last day (this sadly did not happen due to transport change home but I will get it if I go again this year) after a big round of shops around the park we went to get some good places to stand for character express but sadly they called it off so we decided we were gunna go grab something hot to drink and dump out shopping off at the hotel and on our way out we saw loads of character that were surrounded by children including, eeyore, lilo, stitch, rafiki, the twiddles and Santa goofy so I grabbed as many photos as I could and headed out the park for an hour and then returned.

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Ii decided to leave the camera behind for the afternoon so that I could enjoy all the big rides without having to worry about breaking it like I did with my dad camera the year before we did all big rides for the rest of the day and in the evening we had a fantastic meal in hotel new York then on our way out we decided to check out the ice rink which I passed on because I can not stand on ice but some people were very talented at it and made me very jealous :D heeehee after some gazing we had another wonder around the village shops and headed back to sequoia for a good nights rest after a very long day.

End of day 4 hope you enjoyed: d
Day 5 – The "new" final day coming soon (maybe tomoz)
Take care

XOXO Gareth
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on January 24, 2010, 12:39:49 AM
part 5 The "new" Fianl day will be up today (sunday) see you soon :D
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: dagobert on January 24, 2010, 09:29:56 AM
Thanks for another great trip report. If I remember correctly you have written in a previous post that you have been to Rainforest Cafe? Is it necessary to reserve a table and how was the food? We will try it during our next visit.

We've been to Rainforest Cafe only once in Chicago and the food was really good, but I've heared from other people that they were not very happy with Rainforest in DV, cold food, long waiting times, etc.

Looking forward to your last part.
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: norhel on January 24, 2010, 10:13:43 AM
Quote from: "dagobert"If I remember correctly you have written in a previous post that you have been to Rainforest Cafe? Is it necessary to reserve a table and how was the food? We will try it during our next visit.
We've been to Rainforest Cafe only once in Chicago and the food was really good, but I've heared from other people that they were not very happy with Rainforest in DV, cold food, long waiting times, etc.

I've been to Rainforest cafe twice. When we was there, we got start in to a table.
The first time if I remember correct, it felt that it took a little long time to get the food, but it was perhaps normal.
But the food was very good.  :)
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: dagobert on January 24, 2010, 10:37:19 AM
Thanks for the answer, norhel!
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Aveen2008 on January 24, 2010, 01:40:00 PM
Your photos are magical!!
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on January 24, 2010, 10:01:28 PM
Dagobert yea just like norhel said the rain forest cafe is super, we got stright to a table and waiting time for food was good and the food was my fav of the whole trip

Aveen thanks for the comment im glad you like them

and im sorry but the next part i said would be up today but due to a busy day i havnt had time to write it so ill post it during my free time at uni tomoz hope you all had a good weekend

Xoxo Gareth
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on January 27, 2010, 03:19:04 PM
Hey guys and girls sorry its late but the final part will be up tonight its all written im just waiting for photbucket to start working again as i can not get on it right now :D see you all soon  :D/
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: Gareth on January 27, 2010, 04:28:55 PM
Day 5
The "new" final day

Today turned out to be our last day in the parks as we had to book flights in order to get home to get to your families for Christmas so after booking flights for the next day due to eurostar not working we headed into disneyparcs for one a last time. We started this day off in discoveryland my friends needed the loo and while she was in there was these African tam tams on the lion king stages and it was a nice little show not a good as the lion king which I hope returns soon but it was good none the less. We then did buzz light-year and star tours once more and headed back to Main Street for Minnies party train. Today it did happen which was good. I was so shocked how different the train looked compared to last year I think it deffo looks a lot better and wow that song is too catchy.

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After the party train we headed over to belles Christmas village which was rlly nice and the stalls were so cute as we were walking though we were shocked because storybook land and Casey JR were open and both were great rides and we got to jump a huge chunk of the Casey jr train because there were looking a 2 riders which is what we had felt like a celeb hehe story book river was still dusted with snow which made the photos look magical

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After we had done both of these rides it was official we had completed everything apart from fantalusion and Mickey's magical party in this park and it was lunch time already so we speed walked over the studios to watch stars and cars, this was a great little parade but it felt as if the cars zooms pass and coz we got there I bit late we did not get great spots but still glad we got to see it once before we left it was nice to see a new character in the parks which was mulan this was deffo the day of characters,

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After a look around the studios we decided to finish up the shopping and head back though the village and pack for the flight home the next day. It took me ages to fit everything into my suite case as I had bought so much that I intended on carrying on the train after around 2 hours of packing I grabbed a shower and we headed back to the park for the very last time as we walked to the park we stopped by hotel new York to print off our plane tickets and then grabbed a meal in Annette's ( I miss cherry sprite soo much hehe) aw we got into the park everyone had taken spaces for the Christmas tree lighting ceremony so we watched this because we could not get past a single person after this it began to snow again which lead to fantalusion being called off and Mickey's magical party so we went on a couple of rides till the park closed which was a good time and again big thunder mountain  at night is a must do :D after all this we headed back for our final night of sleep for in the morning we would head to CDG to catch our plane back to the uk

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The airport
We got on the coach and got to the airport which was huge and rlly scary I had never been in any kind of airport till today so I started with a huge one we were so lost but luckily a family that were English and on the same plane as us offered to help us out which I am still so thankful so if it was anyone reading this big thanks :D and at 2 pm we caught our plane to Exeter and was picked up and drove back home to a snow free Cornwall just in time for Christmas eve

The overall trip was the most magical time I had ever had although I think if I go this year I want it to be summer again and to experience everything with my best friend was also a great experience highlights of the trip were the nights spent in the park and seeing everything covered in snow because in Cornwall we don't rlly get snow well we did this year but after spending a week in thick snow the Cornwall snow on January did not sea so bad:D

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Thanks for reading and I hope you all enjoyed it
And also a huge thank you for leaving comments: D
Take care all and see you around the forum

XoxO

Gareth
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: The Butlin Boy on January 28, 2010, 06:15:01 PM
Thanks for the trip report Gareth, it's been a real pleasure to read. That final photo of the castle is beautiful, the fact that it has snow on it, be only just a small sprinkling makes it look so brilliant =D>

Thanks again, and I'm glad you had a great time :)
Title: Re: Gareth's Magical Christmas
Post by: never2old on January 28, 2010, 10:50:08 PM
Thank you for a great trip report!! And that last picture of the castle... Whoa. Stunning  :D

Thank you!!