Finally after a year of buying our flight ticket to HK, the most awaited day arrived. Emeryn attended Art Class on Sat morning where later mummy bought home our packed lunch. After lunch, we took our showers and done some last minutes packing. Mummy called a cab instead of troubling her friends or even Ah Kong to send her off to the airport. The cab fetched us at 2.30pm and we're just in time to board our flight. This trip we brought along the stroller as mummy foresee there would be long walking at the park and would want Emeryn to have all the comfort instead of suffering from long walk. As usual we're light traveler with only 1 backpack.
We landed at HKIA at about 7.40pm and headed straight to the arrival hall after clearing the immigration process. We bought the octopus card, mainly for our transportation convenient. We headed to the airport - Tung Chung shuttle to catch the shuttle S1 to the Tung Chung mrt station. We didn't wait long and the journey took approx 10mins. From Tung Chung, we boarded the mrt to Lai King station and interchanged to Tsuen Wan line and alighted from Yau Ma Tei station. To our surprise, the hotel we booked, Galaxy Wifi Hotel was just 2minutes walk from the station exit.
The room was relatively small, as it's nothing to shout about in HK but it was amazingly clean and new. The aunty who was at the reception was very helpful too. After settling down, we walked nearby the hotel area and finally walked into a restaurant to satisfy our hunger. Without realizing and reading the sign board, we landed ourselves at a Thai Restaurant. We had tomyam fried rice and iced longan drinks. After the hearty meal, we had a short walk before heading back to the hotel. Emeryn took her shower and enjoyed the hk tv channel before her bed time. Emeryn was too engrossed with people around her speaking Cantonese including mummy. She requested mummy to speak "kungfu" (she mistakenly pronounce it, instead of Cantonese) to her.
The next morning, we woke up early as to prepared ourselves for a fun filled day at Disneyland. We left the hotel at about 8.15am and went for dim sum. Mummy ordered congee with salted pork and century Egg (皮蛋瘦肉粥), chinese dumpling with shrimps (蝦餃), pork dumpling (燒賣) and steamed chinese sponge cake (马来糕). Emeryn loves the congee and unfortunately we can't finish all that we've ordered. We took away the sponge cake, where we snacked it at Disneyland. MRT was our mode of transportation throughout the whole journey.
It was drizzling when we reached Disneyland but it does not stopped us from having fun. Luckily mummy went prepared with umbrella and raincoats for both. We started with the Main Street, USA where we visited the animation & art gallery, followed by photo shooting with Minnie Mouse and took a train to go around Disneyland via the railroad. We then spent an amount of time & money at the souvenir shop. Emeryn requested for a mickey hairband, minnie handbag and a princess drinking tumbler for herself and Florence.
We then proceeded to Tomorrowland, starting with Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters (a battle against evil Emperor Zurg), Orbitron where we can pilot our own rocket jet spinning high in the sky and lastly went for Stitch Encounter, a two-way interactive show. We passed by the UFO Zone but did not join in the fun as we were a little hesitate to get wet since it is all water-filled adventure. We also skipped Autopia as the queue was insanely long and Space Mountain, the indoor roller coaster due to the height requirement for Emeryn. Emeryn may not be able to take the adrenalin rush too. We had a rush & late lunch at Starliner Diner at 3pm, where we ordered a combo meal with fried chicken. After our lunch, we headed back to the Main Street for the Flight of Fantasy Parade. We were really taken aback with the amazing parade. It was nicely decorated and very entertaining as well.
Next stop was the Fantasyland. We were greeted by Cinderella and we took photo with the lovely princess and many more others character includes Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy and Pooh at the Fantasy Garden. After all the photo shoots, we went for Mad Hatter Tea Cups where we spin in a purple colored wonderfully wacky tea party, Cinderella Carousel where we galloped on the horseback and lastly Dumbo the Flying Elephant. We missed out most of the stage shows due to the time constraint especially on Mickey’s Philharmagic (3d show), Golden Mickey (musical extravaganza) and It’s a Small World (sailing in an imaginative journey).
Emeryn has the comfort to sit back and relax in her stroller while mummy continued walking to Adventureland. Firstly we went for the jungle river cruise where we ventured down the dangerous waters of mysterious river filled with thrilling surprises while the captain tells the tales. We skipped the Raft & Tarzan's Treehouse and Festival of Lion King as it was running late and we have yet to cover Toy Story Land. We passed by the Liki Tikis on the way to Toy Story Land. Emeryn dare not go near to it as it was filled with jungle drum rythm and blasts of water.
When we finally arrived at Toy Story Land, it was already the last call and sadly we don't managed to even have one single ride. Without wasting our time, we snapped some photo there. Anyway most of the ride in Toy Story Land unsuitable for Emeryn due to the minimum height of 120cm and above such as Parachute Drop, Slinky Dog and RC Racer. We were asked to leave at about 6.30pm as the park will be closed.
We had our second round of ride on Cinderella Carousel while walking back to the Main Street of USA. We spotted a short queue at The Many Adventures of Pooh Bear, thus we joined in where we watched Pooh Bear goes in search for “hunny”. We visited the souvenir shop before leaving and mummy brought a key chain as a souvenir for herself. We rushed out to the main street in order not to missed the most-awaited agenda of the day, Disney in the Stars Fireworks at 8pm. We witnessed the spectacular fireworks which transformed the dark sky above the Sleeping Beauty Castle into a stunning evening view. It lasted for about 15minutes and the whole place was crowded. We hurried our way to the exit as soon as the fireworks stopped and headed to the MRT station. Emeryn was obviously exhausted after a long day at the park. As soon as we reached Yau Ma Tei station, we headed to the coffee shop and mummy ordered wan than noodle served with dumplings and red bean soup as a dessert for Emeryn. Emeryn only had a few spoonful of the noodle and red bean soup and started yawing away followed by constant pledging to go back to the hotel. Mummy took away the red bean soup to the hotel to cater for Emeryn's request. Emeryn had a quick bath before heading to bed.
It was a long day for both of us and the mother & daughter trip went well. It was a fun & tiring day too. Conclusion: The rainy day slow downed our activities and we spent long enough at the souvenir shop, that we missed most of the interesting stage show. But we're glad that mummy decided to bring along the stroller. Save us from a lot of misery.
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