Disneyland in Los Angeles

I arrived Los Angeles yesterday 22/9/05 safely and met up with Jaclyn (my travel companion for the western part of USA for 3-4 weeks). We check into our hostel, for the first time, I can found a very cheap hostel less than $15 with good facilities and free food and even a swimming pool. We even got clean linen and towels everyday. It was beyond my imagination of being luxurious for backpackers. But the catch is the hostel is near to the airport and that there is literally nothing much to do around the area unless you take a bus out to the town or places (which is about 40mins to 2hrs journey.

Today, both Jaclyn and myself went to the Disneyland on our own, having asked around for directions to Disneyland. Our hostel do offer daily trips to DL but we decided to find our own way there, 1st to save some extra cash, 2nd to experience local life in taking public transport, 3rd to be adventurer. It was fun I would say. But when we get to DL and found out that the entrance fee is $56, we were shocked but neverthless, we had came all the way and thus must go in to have a feel and look at this "famous" amusement park.
Mind you today is a friday (work and schoolday), the crowds are many and the are people everywhere, queue for food, for rides and almost everything. Maybe, I have been to mountain and beaches, whereby the number of people compare to DL is so much lesser. I wasn't really get use to it. Infact I dislike it, the words kept coming out from my mouth to Jaclyn is "I hate Disneyland". Well, I must say that DL is really nice, the setup and colour, costumes and shows were fantastic. But the rides were quite a disappointment, not as thrilling as I had exprienced it in Lotte world when I was in Korea.
At about 8pm, we were hungry and decided to eat, we gotta queue fro at least 35mins to order our so expensice fish and chips take away. After we got the food. we were looking for tables and chair to have our dinner, but most of the places were taken and reserve (how annoying) they reserve the chair beco there is going to be s show display around the area and the people just hang on to their seats not wanting to move away. I went around asking for chair (just one to share with share) But all rejected to loan me a seat. These people are really "kiasu" and selfish, all I asked was for couples of minutes so that we could seat down for a proper dinner, as the seats these people are reserving for are for children, who don't want to be seat and want to run around, or for their wife who went to do some shopping before coming back in time for the show. I find this really rediculous, the table and chairs are for people who want to have dinner not for them to hog on for a show time. For the first time I was really mad about the American atitudes. During my travels, I heard so many stories about America and the peoples. I could not believe it until I experience them now. Thus, I don't care about my reputations and I began to talk loud to Jaclyn about my disappointments and how bad I felt about America, and I know for sure, they are listening to me and all were very silence during the time while I stand by one of the table to have my lousy dinner. Yuk! I must let this out.

However, today we were lucky, we got to see the firework display and it was a spectacular show. Despites all my complaints and whinnings, I must say I do enjoy DL; after all DL is a beautiful place and as their theme is "To wish upon a star, to make dreams come true" I like it.

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