Disneyland

Late Saturday morning after Hannah's dress-up and photo session we headed to the park.   The weather forecast was for cloud and occasional showers, so it was not at all crowded.

Main Street on Saturday lunchtime

First stop was Space Mountain (15 min wait).  The first time Hannah rode this, on our last visit, she had cried with fear.  Now it is her favourite ride.

My favorites is still the kaiten moku ba.

Like last time we had several rides on the runaway-mine-cars at Grizzly Gulch.

By late afternoon Rika and I ware exhausted.   I was gagging to head down to the 'The Drunken Rat' in the basement of the Castle for a stiff drink.  But Hannah showed no signs of flagging, so we had a quick rest and meal back at the hotel, and headed back to the park to see the fireworks.

Video:  Dreams come true

Amazingly Hannah was still going strong at when we returned to the hotel at 9pm, and we struggled to get her into bed by 10pm.

On Sunday morning we had a leisurely breakfast at the hotel and walked back to the park.   The weather was sunny and warm, which brought the tour busses out in bloom.

Main street on Sunday Morning

As the park was so much busier we didn't rush to do so many rides.

Video:  Mad Hatter Tea-cup

Rika and Dumbo

Video:  Dumbo

Its a Small World.   Especially in New Zealand

Tomorrowland

After 2 days we had pretty much covered the park so we looked at the minor attractions you normally skip.  An unexpected treat was this Zoetrope model demonstrating the principles of animation.   It was very well done and is well explained in this Wiki Zoetrope link.

Video:  Toy Story Zoetrope

Hannah finally ran out of energy aground lunchtime.   As we'd planned, we left around 3pm to get home early to do homework and get Hannah into bed on time.

Hannah wrote this lovely 'thank you' note

before we went.  Clever Hannah.