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Is there any better way to celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day than with a ride on Pirates of the Caribbean? Really, I can't think of any better way to celebrate anything.
For me, there's nothing in the world that can create such a feeling of glee and anticipation as walking up to the entrance of Pirates of the Caribbean, whether it's at Disneyland:
Or Walt Disney World:
Disneyland will always be my favorite, though....to me, the extra scenes, the double drop, and the perfection that is the Blue Bayou set it head and shoulders above the Walt Disney World version.
The best food in any of the parks can be found at the Blue Bayou, and no restaurant anywhere else in the world can beat it for ambience.
Some images are indelibly etched in my mind, and one of my very favorites is the sight of the talking skull above the archway as the ride really begins. The sight of that grinning skull in his pirate hat always makes me smile.
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I think that Pirates of the Caribbean is the perfect expression of everything Walt Disney wanted to accomplish with his park. The illusion is so perfect...for the twelve minutes you are on the ride, it is more real than reality. Every one of your senses is engaged...the sound effects, the music, the images, the smell of the water and the mist, the gentle rocking of your boat...nothing breaks the illusion.
Every trip I'm lucky enough to take to either of the parks, the very first thing I do is make a beeline for Pirates. I'll ride it several times a day, each day I'm there, and it will be the very last ride I go on before I have to leave.
It never gets old, there's always something new to experience. There's nowhere in the world I'd rather be. A pirate's life for me!
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