Day 5: Lan Fang Yuen & Ocean Park

We bought our Ocean Park tickets at the 7-Eleven store below the hotel.

The tickets came in the form of long receipts, unlike the ones we bought (4 years ago) at the ticket booth of Ocean Park.

After that, we proceeded to Central for breakfast at Lan Fang Yuen.

Coco's choice: hotdog in egg wrap

A pineapple bun and their signature stocking tea

The signature pork chop bun

For some reason, it tasted softer 4 years ago.

We alighted at Admiralty MRT Station and boarded the bus 679 to Ocean Park.

Baby and Coco sat on the upper deck while William and I stood downstairs.

When we alight, Coco told me that Baby lost her tiny small toy at one point. Seeing that Coco was looking for something, some kind soul asked her what she was looking for and everybody at the rear of the bus started looking for it too!

A Singaporean father found it and returned to Baby.

I am grateful for the nice people.

A shot at the entrance

Ocean Park MRT was in the pipeline and there were renovation works at the Park.

The entrance was a different one from the one we used last time.

On the cable car 

What we could see off the cable car

Coco's thrill ride

Baby wanted to ride on a roller coaster. 

I was too chicken to try it.

After the ride

At the penguin enclosure

A walrus playing with a water bottle (?)

A roaming car

Coco wanted to take this but I had to say no because we had to meet up with William and Baby.

I would have been scared out of my wits!

We took the Ocean Express down to the ground level for the younger kid's rides. It was crazy crowded in the station. Most of the visitors were Chinese nationals. When the gate to the train opened, it was a mad rush for the train. Baby was bumped to the floor. For fear of her being run over, I squat down by her in case there was a stampede. While William blocked the crowd from stepping on us, I quickly picked Baby up. She was traumatised by the craze and bawled on the train.

Some nice Chinese guy gave up his seat for Baby and I distracted Baby with the images on the ceiling of the Express. She was soon appeased and we continued with our rides.

Hong Kong's Guiness Tower

In the tower

A bird's eye view of the Park

On a ferris wheel

This time, I made it a point to watch a show

It does not look interesting on pictures

but it was impressive when you saw it with your own eyes.

She could not get enough of thrill rides.

After the roller coaster ride

William won a pink bear for Baby by throwing balls into a net.

Happy was she!

A clown to entertain the passers-by

We chanced upon a Doremon house. 

We walked in and took pictures with a live Doremon!

Coco rode on the Frog Hopper with Baby.

They laughed and laughed while it bobbed up and down.

A pretty, mini ferris wheel that we boarded

Coco wanted a plush toy too.

She threw plastic balls onto some rather flat plates and won a large and a medium Doremon!

I had seen people playing the same game earlier on and it was very difficult to have even a ball land on the plates.

Impressive, I must say.

It was nearing Christmas. 

A Santa Claus invited the girls to take picture with him.

They 'must take a picture with the Christmas tree'!

We shopped at the souvenir shop till the sales assistant told us that we were the last customers in the shop!

Happy with her prize

Baby was exhausted after an exciting day and Coco did not wish to step out of the hotel room.

William and I went in search of our supper.

Yes, it's Mak's again.

William chose to have the wanton noodles again although he did not fancy it much.

He just wanted to fill his stomach.

This time, I placed an order for pig's trotter noodles (dry).

It was yummy (for me).

After which we did a flitting window-shopping at Women's Street and bought 7 cards with 3D structures for S$50 which I haven't seen them since!

Day 2: Hong Kong Disneyland II

It was 9am. She had had her bath.

She loved the idea of being a princess so much that she wanted me to dress her up in the same fashion as she had the previous day! I was reluctant at first as it seemed preposterous to be in the same outfit and dress-up for two consecutive days, but of course, who can argue with a princess? I gave in at last.

Our view from the balcony. Oh dear, quite crooked I see.

The hall was all decked up for Christmas.

We made a dash for the Disneyland shuttle bus.

A quick shot at alighting

We got the Disneyland photographer to help us take one pic at the entrance to eliminate the possibility of strangers photo-bombing.

The photographer taking solo shots of Baby.

Instructions must have been given to take more pictures of little girls in princess outfits from Bobbidi Bibbidi Boutique.

We were done with Fantasy Land. So Tomorrow Land it was.

We had our brunch here, a cafeteria at Tomorrow Land.

Char Siew Rice

Fried Rice

... beef noodles?

Out of the blue, William pointed to the floor beside me and started laughing as he said to Baby,"Look! The birds are looking at her!"

I turned and saw a flock of fluffy sparrows looking at me, seemingly to ask for food!

I flung some rice to the floor and true enough, the hungry birds pecked the grains quickly and in a blink of an eye, the rice was gone!

 

I did the same thing a few times, and each time, the birds finished the rice very quickly.

 

We thought it was quite fun, until an auntie in the cafeteria uniform hastened towards us and shooed the poor birds away. At the same time, she muttered some Cantonese. William said she was saying,"Don't feed the birds anymore."

 

We sneaked some rice on the floor when she was not looking, but we were soon found out. We had to stop doing it so as not to incur her wrath.

We went on a ride after our brunch.

William and Coco went on a thrill ride, Starliner Diner. As Baby was not allowed to take the ride, we decided to go on a car ride. To our horror, there was an ultra long queue. So we retreated to the outside of Starliner to wait for them. I got a cotton candy for the little girl in part to keep her occupied.

 

Needless to say, she enjoyed the candy like she had never before.

We went on the Astro Blasters after the wait.

 

We went to the Wishing Well to look for the princesses.

While waiting for the princesses, Baby made a wish at the well.

We managed to take a picture with Belle before we went for the parade.

Picture of Belle would be in the collage of all the princesses we took pictures with.

To take a picture with Elsa and Anna, you have to be very early,

so we missed them in real person, but all was not lost. She took a picture with the cardboard version of the girls.

Many had already gathered before the parade started.

While waiting ...

The balloon man as the ''prelude'' - the sale of the balloons was indeed better as he paraded himself before the crowd.

And it began ...

Cinderella first caught sight of Baby in Aurora costume.

She alerted Aurora who looked and waved at Baby eye to eye.

The nice balloon guy obliged every single mother who asked to take a picture of their children with the balloons while he hid behind.

 

This was the longest queue in the Park!

We took quite a long time to queue for all these princesses. As you can see, it was night time when we took a picture with Snow White.

It was late, but Coco was determined to cover the new rides that did not exist when she was there 4 years ago.

We hurried to Grizzly Gulch.

It was so dark I could not catch a decent picture of the place. Coco went on the rollercoaster over here.

 

The Mystic Manor was next in line.

At Mystic Manor, we took a ride where you were swung to the different rooms with different effects and animation. I actually enjoyed it.

The last Land that we went to: Toy Story Land.

We went on the Sling Dog, like the one that we did at Disneyland Paris. 

The ticket for the ride was a bone, befitting the name of the ride.

Coco would never missed out on the scariest ride, exactly the same as the one she had ridden on in Paris.

Before we left, Baby pleaded with us to allow her to go on this!

The father braced himself for the parachute ride and came down visibly relieved and proud of himself.

By the time we were done with the rides, it was about 8.30pm.

We walked out to the main store and shopped for the things that we deemed wonderful, after which we took the shuttle bus back to Disneyland Hotel and took a cab to Yau Ma Tei to book in at our hotel in the city.