One day, my Mum said that we were going somewhere special for my birthday, and we had to fly there. Those were all my clues.

On the Friday before my birthday, we packed our bags and caught a flight to Los Angeles, California. When we got off the plane, I went to the toilet with my Dad and when I got back there was a tag on my bag which said “DISNEYLAND RESORT”!! So then I knew where we were going!

We caught the Disneyland Express bus, and about an hour after that we were at the Disney Grand Californian Hotel where we were staying. When we got to our room, we unpacked our luggage and looked outside, and saw that the park was right outside our window! We saw a ride that we really had to go on, called Goofy’s flight school.

We went to bed early, ready for an early morning start. We were able to start an hour before the park opened to the public, because we had tickets for the extra ‘Magic hour’.

When we got into the park, we went to Star Tours (a Star Wars ride) which was a ride that a lady in the hotel  recommended to us. We liked it so much that we did it two more times before the Magic Hour ended. We then tried to do the Indiana Jones ride before the hour ended, but the Indian Jones ride was being worked on and they said to come back later.

So we then went to Tarzan’s treehouse, then we went on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride which had a few sudden waterfall drops, which I love.

Then we went to the Haunted Mansion ride. At one stage we had a ghost sitting in the car with us. On me!!!!

After that we went to play Astro Blasters which was a game when the aliens from Toy story were shooting down the baddies.

By then, Indian Jones was working again. Me and my Mum got whiplash! It was worth it, it was a really cool ride. There was a giant snake that tried to bite Dad, and a room of cockroaches, Mum’s favourite part! (ha ha). Then we almost got run over by a giant rolling rock, but just in time we fell down a hole. Indiana Jones said “Tourists!”.

Then we went back to Star Tours for another ride. At the beginning of each ride they chose a person in the audience to be the Rebel Spy, and this time it was me, which meant Darth Vader was after me!

The last thing we did was we went to see the Jedi Training. I was one of the kids chosen to do the Jedi training! We had to put on a Jedi robe and learn how to use a light saber. Then we all had to fight Darth Vader or Darth Maul. I fought Darth Vader, and was the only person to get him on the head. He said “The Dark Side is growing in you”. Then at the end he said “The Force is strong in this one.”

Then for dinner we went to a Mexican place, and I had burritos and a virgin Margarita.

While we were eating dinner a man came to our table and made me a balloon chainsaw! It was so cool! When we were walking home to the hotel, almost everyone stopped to look at it. One person stopped us and asked if they could take a photo of it, and one little girl’s eyes almost popped out of her head!