Ok, so we went to The Efteling yesterday and I have to say the video makes it look more impressive than it really is. We waited until the line went down to 50 minutes and it was so not worth that wait. We got through it and I was like...that's it?? It's cool that you get to choose which one of the 3 paths you want to take, but the only thing that's different is the one room....where the music tour has the organ, the heroes room has the knights, and the treasure room has the diamonds. And the room where they take your picture has a different base that the mirror rests on. That's it. DD and I did the music one, DH and DS did heroes. DH was a bit upset because a group of 4 girls pushed past them to get into the front with the interactive panels, because the back doesn't have them, after the CM person told them to let kids into the front to do the panels, and DS was really upset that he didn't get to do that. He wanted to go back and do it again just to sit in the front, but the line was 70 minutes long again and we just weren't going to waste that much time on it. What WAS cool was that there were signs and things throughout the line on posts, trash cans, banners, in a Cipher code. DH took pictures of all of them and decoded them with the kids today. I think they were all in Dutch though, so unless you speak Dutch, you wouldn't get them. Some of them were jokes that don't translate because they are plays on words. Like...Boer can be either a farmer, or to burp. So what's the difference between a boer (farmer) and a koning? (king) A king can burp but a farmer can't king. But it was fun going through the line trying to figure out more and more of the letters. And every few minutes they would have some sort of silly announcement like "Ladies and gentlemen, we ask that you follow castle etiquette. This means no swiping or swapping of others' belongings." And they make the announcements in both Dutch and English. So that was neat. But they didn't make the queue very convenient...it's pretty isolated, so at one time, a parade went by on the path right next to us, but we couldn't see a thing because they have hedges and trees and everything, so anything that happens while you are in line, you miss. I actually liked Droomvlucht (dream flight) much better as far as the ride goes, though the theming in the queue wasn't anything spectacular.
