After hitting the Buzz ride and Space Mountain (known as Ghost Galaxy during the Halloween season) we went to meet our haunted tour guide at City Hall. Our guide's name was Phobe (pronounced fo-be, not fee-be). She was great and made Kaid's birthday pretty amazing. First she presented him with some Mickey ears with his name on them. Then she took us for a private "session" with Chip and Dale. It was pretty hilarious to be in the room with Chip and Dale, our family of 4, Phobe, and 3 other random workers (1 photographer and 2 people to shout poses out and make us laugh). There was some ring around the rosie going on, and a lot of hugging, with a little, "let's all be really scary for the camera" thrown in for good measure. Good times!
Phobe turned out to be our best friend. She took us around the park and we went to the very front of each and every ride. Not a single second of waiting. Sometimes she would even ride the rides with us. Because it is almost Halloween there are some "bonus" rides at the park right now. One is the Haunted House and one is Demon Jungle. Phobe assured us that the haunted house was "not too scary." So, we bravely followed our new BFF into the Disney haunted house. And...
I'm surprised our family made it out alive. It was terrifying for ALL of us!!! At every turn there were zombies and monsters jumping out of the darkness, grabbing at us and screaming LOUDLY in Chinese. We ended up walking through as a train. Phobe was in the front and Kylisha was behind her, holding her for dear life. Amanda had Kaid between her and Kylisha and she had one hand gripping Kylisha while her other hand held Kaid and covered his eyes. Meanwhile, I was at the back yelling, "I thought this was Disney!!" Randoms would grab at me and follow me with their meat cleavers. It was terrifying and it went on forever.
Once we were back in the safety of the sun our tour continued. Phobe said we only had one more ride...Demon Jungle. We explained to her that the house was too scary for us. We wanted to know about this jungle...would it be scary too?? Phobe assured us that the Demon Jungle was NOT scary. It was FUN. We believed her. She had a nice smile. She was rainbow-ish. She was jolly like a smurf. You would have believed her too.
Demon Jungle was the scariest "ride" we've ever encountered. First of all, it wasn't a ride...it was another stinking haunted house!! This time the dead zombie people were even more terrifying and angry. They yelled more Chinese and grabbed at our train as we chugged along praying for sunlight. At one point we had to walk the "gauntlet". There were about 12 scary tribal warrior scary dudes with spears lining the path on either side of the gauntlet. We had to walk between them to get across. Some were real men, some were statues. Or maybe all were real men? Our eyes were closed, so we can't be sure. We just know that they brutally attacked the group ahead of us.
After 7 or 8 hours of walking through the jungle we made it back into the Disney we know and love...scarred for life. That's when we found the frozen cheesecake.
We parted ways with Phobe and continued on our way. We had booked a dinner at one of the restaurants and Amanda had arranged for a cake. Kaid was pretty excited when they brought it out, and then the whole restaurant sang Happy Birthday to him. All the restaurant workers had also signed a birthday card for our boy. After dinner our server "Suki" taught the girls some Chinese. We stayed for the fireworks and the best parade I've ever seen at a Disney park. Kylisha started feeling sick right after dinner and almost had to call it a night at about 7, but she managed to tough it out until the fireworks were done.
All night Klash was up. The bug she had earlier in the week was back! In the morning we had a character breakfast planned and she couldn't come. And Kylisha loves those breakfasts! It was too bad. We will definitely have to go back...maybe for her birthday? The breakfast was very similar to the ones at the other parks. Lots of western food. There was also dim sum and Indian food. All the characters were dressed in Halloween costumes. But, the best outfit of all was the boy at the table beside us. He was about 4 and he was wearing a full on wet suit with jogging pants over top, and white disney slippers. His BMI was also roughly 37. He was awesome!!
Speaking of slippers...it was a good thing the hotel gave us some free slippers because Kylisha's flip flop broke at about 9 pm at the park. She was walking around with one shoe on and one bare foot for the rest of the night. The next day, though, she wore the slippers on the MTR to the mall where she bought some new sandals. The people on the MTR thought she was crazy and were blatantly pointing and laughing about her slippers. She was just thankful that she didn't have to walk barefoot. And...she was equally happy when she and Amanda found a Roxy outlet and she ended up with nicer sandals than the ones she had worn to HK!!
The giant Buddha on Lantau in HK is GIANT. Seriously. It's huge!! And it is also apparently very popular on Sundays! We waited in line to get tickets for the cable car up the mountain for longer than I wish to say. THEN, we bought our tickets and waited in line for another eternity!!! We could have went on 56 Disneyland rides in the time it took us to purchase tickets and get to the top of the mountain. A tip for anyone who plans on taking the cable car up-take the regular cabin UP the mountain and the glass bottomed car DOWN. Or, better yet-forget the glass bottomed number all together.
Once we arrived at the top we took a short hike up to the Buddha (it involved a few flights of stairs, but nothing serious). Kaid spotted a little man begging for change while we were there. The man had no arms and maybe one leg (or maybe a leg and a half). Kaid is intrigued by little people, so as he walked by the man he pointed him out to us and asked us why the little man was sitting there. We pointed out the man's red bucket and explained that he was looking for money. He wanted to give the man some money and talk to him, so Kylisha helped him (as he was eager, but equally timid).
As we mentioned in the last blog, we gorged ourselves on ice cream a couple of times and then headed back down the hill. From that point it took us about 3 hours to get home! We took the MTR back to the Disney hotel (where our bags were being stored), then back the other way to get to the ferry station. Then we grabbed dinner to go from various restaurants at the ferry terminal and made the 6:30 ferry back to Macau. We enjoyed our dinner on the ferry. And Amanda enjoyed the lady sitting beside her. She kept puking in the barf bag. Awesome.
Finally, we wish to send a BIG congratulations to our friends Darcy and Michelle from back in Edmonton! On Sunday they had their first baby-a little boy-Davin. Michelle is like Amanda's little sister and Darcy calls me POPS, so I guess Davin is our nephew/grandson. Wish we could have been there, kids! Enjoy every minute.
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