Disneyland | leschalmers

Well it’s back at the airport again, this time it’s the mother of all airports, LAX. Excellent, there’s nothing like a good airporting at eight in the morning to make your day, especially after a pre-breakfast argument with Alamo Car Rental. They will insist on undercharging…..in the end.

I’m pleased to report that the security screening system is being streamlined and as it wasn’t overly busy, we were through check in and cleared security in less than fifteen minutes.

As always, I am looking forward to the flight. I love the little safety talk that everyone ignores until the plane starts making strange noises, not that most people would know what a strange plane noise essentially is. My favourite part of the safety talk is where the oxygen mask drops from the ceiling, “please fit your mask before assisting others”, damn right I will. I just wish that instead of oxygen they used nitrous oxide, at least then I could die laughing. Let’s face it if the wings fall off at forty thousand feet this puppy is going supersonic before it hits the water or ground and both are as hard as each other at mach one.

But as usual I have drifted from my original thought, which was Disneyland. As an exercise in logistics Disneyland is “the” model. From the car parking in the morning to the car picking up at the end of the day, the whole show is choreographed to ensure each and every mouseketeer has a “Disney Day”.

Having offered up a couple of hundred of “the illusive” we were treated to the most nimble-fingered system of queuing on the planet. The queue system is based on the principle of “the mouse” himself. The “mouse”, or customer, is ushered though a maze like system of roped off corridors and passageways. Little visual treats along the way remind the “mouse” of it’s final goal and keep it from becoming bored and restless. After some time, no one knows how much time, as time stands still and sometimes runs backwards at Disneyland, the “mouse” arrives at the ride where it’s consciousness is assaulted with a visual and aural display that defies description.

From ten in the morning to nine at night we were assailed with all that is magical. It was, life the universe and everything according to Disney. And we enjoyed it all from Adventure Land to Tomorrow Land and all the In Between Lands. We queued our way through almost all of it however, we missed the Thor exhibit as one of the junior mousketeers had “got a little excited” and the clean-up rodents were still making everything “Disney shape” before the next round of audio-visual tomfooleries. Pictures as usual follow, however to fully understand the implications of a trip to The Magic Kingdom you will just have to do it. That plus we’re not spending two hundred bucks to save you the effort.