scanning the map anxiously. The five Lands were Frontierland, Adventureland, Fantasyland, Discoveryland and Main Street USA. The place was absolutely huge. How on earth were we going to know where the film crew were?
“Why didn’t you say it was so big, Fliss?” I groaned.
“I didn’t think.” Fliss was looking as dismayed as the rest of us.
“Oh, well, we’ll just have to do our best,” Lyndz said hopefully. We all nodded. But we were feeling a bit depressed as we trailed off the minibus.
That didn’t last long though! I mean, we were at
Disneyland!
The big white building was the entrance,and Fliss said it was a hotel where she and her family had stayed last time they visited. In front of the entrance were some pretty gardens, and there was a big Mickey Mouse face made out of flowers! We all cheered up when we saw that. We could hardly wait to get inside!
“Wow!” Frankie gasped as we walked into Main Street USA. “This is awesome!”
We were standing on a big white street, lined with big buildings. It looked like a scene from an old American film. Horse-drawn carts were taking people up and down the street, there were restaurants and shops, and Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck were walking around, shaking hands with people! Right at the end of the street was a huge fairytale castle with lots of turrets.
“That’s Sleeping Beauty’s Castle,” Fliss said as we all looked at our maps to try and work out what it was. “It’s the entrance to Fantasyland. Shall we go there first?”
“No, Adventureland first!” Kenny begged.
“No, Discoveryland!” said Frankie.
“Make your minds up!” said Mr Tate with a smile. So we decided on Fantasyland first.
We were all so excited, we forgot about the film crew for a while. We went into Fantasyland, and saw the dragon in his lair underneath Sleeping Beauty’s Castle. We went on Captain Hook’s pirate ship and flew to Never-Never Land. We went on a canal boat cruise through Storybook Land. We even had a ride on Dumbo! We didn’t see the film crew, but we had a fab time.
“Right, Adventureland next!” Kenny said as we studied our maps to see which way we had to go.
“Just a minute!” Lyndz whispered suddenly. “I thought I just saw Danni Hart!”
“Where?” we all yelled.
“There!” Lyndz said, pointing. So we all rushed off in that direction.
“Hey! Adventureland is the other way!” Mr Tate shouted, running after us and waving his map in the air, but we ignored him!
So we ended up in Discoveryland. Of course, we just had to go on Space Mountain,even though we had to queue for ages. Space Mountain was brilliant! You sit strapped in on a rocket train, and then you go shooting up and down through space, and you see all kinds of things like asteroids and meteorite showers. It was awesome! Although Mr Tate looked a bit wobbly when we got off!
After that we went to Honey, I Shrunk The Audience. We had to queue up for ages for that as well, but it was worth it. It was brilliant, because we (the audience) were supposed to have shrunk and everything else was really big. My favourite bit was when this gi-normous dog stuck his head out into the audience!
“Right, it’s time to meet the others for lunch,” said Mr Tate, glancing at his watch. “Come on, we’ve got to go back to Main Street USA.”
“And keep your eyes open for that film crew!” Frankie told us.
It took us a while to get back to Main Street because there was so much to look at, and Kenny insisted on having her phototaken with Baloo the Bear! When we finally made it, the others were waiting for us. The first thing we noticed was that the Queen and the Goblin were grinning fit to bust.
“What’s up with them?” Frankie muttered. We soon found out.
“Oh no!” Fliss groaned.
“Look!”
We looked down Main Street. There were the film crew. There was Danni Hart and the other actors – and they were just leaving!
“Oh no!” Kenny gasped. “We’ve missed
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