Disneyland (June 10)-  The happiest place in the World

Today we had the amazing opportunity to visit one of the best amusement parks in America, Disneyland in Los Angeles, California. First of all we all enjoyed an extra hour of sleep that gave us energy to seize this day.

When we got to the park we all could feel the magic in the air. Everything was so happy and full of joy, it was impossible to resist the temptation of following that vibe. The park was full of people, so as you can imagine the lines were really long, but we all found a way to enjoy that waiting time by sharing with each other our stories and experiences of this year.

Ready for the "happiest place on earth!"

To make this day even better we had the chance to visit not one but two parks. Across the street from Disneyland we had the Disney California Adventure park. We spent the first part of this day on Disneyland where we started by going on the least popular rides but not the least amusing, such as Pirates of Caribbean and Haunted House. The weather got warmer so we all wanted to get a little splash, so we decided to go on one of the most well known rides of the park: the Splash Mountain, it was really fun and we got completely wet! We still had some time to go to another rides on this park before lunch, for example the Mad Tea Party, Indiana Jones and Space Mountain.

Excited for the Mad Tea Cups!

After lunch we head up to the other park, where some amazing roller coaster was waiting for us. One of our favorite rides was definitely the Hollywood Tower of Terror, that actually was pretty scary, but still a lot of fun!

Tower of Terror

We found some other Belo adventurers and decided to joined them and enjoy the  many rides that the park still had to offer together, such as California Screamin’, a huge roller coaster that made us scream louder than we knew we could, and Grizzly River Run, another water roller coaster that made us even more wet than the other one.

Mickey loves us!

Finally at 9:30 we watched the firework show, it was unbelievable, all the music, lights and magic made this the most incredible firework show we have ever seen. Disneyland is for sure a magical place!

-- Joana, Portugal and Laura, Belgium