Paris Disney

We set off around 10 am and in true American style, started the day with McDonald's, across the road from the apartment. We caught the Metro to the nearest RER station that went to Disneyland.

ParisDisneyland is about an hour out of the centre of Paris and we did think about staying there in one of the hotels that surround the complex. However we would have to stay a minimum of two nights and we just did not want to devote that much time to Disneyland. Arriving at the station we were confronted with Disneyland Park, Disneyland Studio's and Disneyland Village. AJR of course wanted to go to all three.

I will let AJR tell the story for a while.

Disneyland
At 6am in the morning we all woke with excitement everything was done in a hurry and through the slowness of the trains and crowds of Paris we didn’t get to Disneyland resort Paris till1pm. Okay it was amazing. From the second I stepped in my eyes where overwhelmed, it was impossible to describe. After about 5 minutes of standing in silence dumbfounded we slowly stepped forward. The first thing that assailed my senses were the horse drawn carts heading up & down Central Street U.S.A past many restaurants.

But in the end we selected Walt’s and took our photos with a bust of Walt Disney. The food we selected was absolutely amazing and the dessert was even better than that. Michaela’s dessert of choice was a puzzle made of white chocolate. The completed puzzle was of Mickey Mouse donning a chef’s hat holding a wooden spoon with sauce dripping off and it came with a paintbrush and blobs of different coloured liquid chocolate to paint Mickey with. After the delicious meal we headed to the central plaza where sat a giant disc with a mosaic of Jiminy Cricket on it waving his wand that extended out from the mosaic.

But sitting behind the gargantuan disc was the Disney castle from the beginning of Disney movies. That the beam shoots across which underneath was the gate to Fantasyland to our west was frontier land and adventure land to our east was discovery land. That was where we split up. Me and Dad headed for Adventure land we were dying to go on the pirates of the Caribbean ride, It was probably the shortest line, It probably only went about 50 metres long and it took about 5 minutes yet was very enjoyable and though the line was short there was like 150 metres of pirate styled caves where it was bright enough to see but too dark to see our feet

When we got off the ride we went to Captain Hooks cave it was dark damp and the best place in parc Disney to spook your friends by jumping around the corner and shouting. When we made our way to the eye sockets of skull rock we noticed a guy looking very relieved, In fact he was the man who had ran past Dad & I only minutes ago in a hurry, with a panicked expression on his face. It was odd but Dad and I soon discovered why the sudden change, because the first thing we noticed was that the place smelt of urine. Dad and I were absolutely appalled.

Dad and I then went on a number of fast and exhilarating rides from the slow paced Buzz Lightyear shooting game to the thrilling thunder mountain ride to the eerie phantom manor Disney land had it all at 5 pm we regrouped well kinda, you see the girls were late. So Dad and I decided to go on another ride, it was based on Star Wars and it was a simulation of us being in a space ship, with a panicked robot screaming in French. Then we headed back to the ice cream parlour and found the girls. We had a drink and showed each other what we had bought. After that we once again split up. Dad and me went to the dragons lair, which was this dark cave, in which was a lake, but that’s not important, what is important is what was in the lake. It was a giant smoke spitting dragon. It was gargantuan and it literally made me feel like an ant.

At 8pm we left because we had too, Disneyland was closing. We regrettably left the magic behind and returned to reality,
The End!

Here is MLR with her desert.

MLR and I went on the cups and saucers ride and the dumbo ride, they were our favourites. We also went to Pinnochio, a favourite of MLR's for the whole trip, the Phantom Manor, Pirates of the Caribean, Swiss Family Robinson, and through the Indian reservation. Here is the map we followed (in Francais of course!)JR &AJR had the one in English.We got home very late, about 10pm. The Monoprix closes at 9.50pm. I went across the street to the chinese and managed to buy seafood for us and vegetarian for AJR. We all had a fantastic day and went to bed happy.