Sunday and Monday we met up with Michael's host and her daughter for a fun trip to Disneyland Paris!!
It is about an hour by train outside of Paris. We stayed one night so that we could watch the night time light show. Well worth it! I might add that normally thoughts of Disney World or Disneyland bring up memories of being warm or being hot--but not this time! It was FREEZING cold! The sun was shining, which was awesome, but I was so, so cold and could not feel my toes/fingers most hours of the day... Of course, it didn't seem to bother the girls too much:)
Something that was an unpleasant surprise, was the sheer number of people --especially when it was such a frigid weekend! It was very crowded for early March!! Apparently this was the first day of a two week break for the schools in France and many other families had similar ideas about a fun way to spend the start of the break! We stood in long lines for everything, rides, food, bathroom breaks, entering and exiting... (which I think is normal for Disneyland) but it was so crowded that even walking from ride to ride was difficult. Most of the rides we wanted to do had a 70 minute wait time, again this is "normal" but we discovered that in France, perhaps they haven't mastered accuracy in guessing the "wait time" because a 35 minute wait was usually closer to an hour...or longer...Fun times! The good part is that Eden and her friend had a great time! That is what it is all about--making sure that the kids have fun!
Eden LOVES roller coasters! Not the ones for little kids (she refers to those as "lame") but the faster and crazier kinds are her favs! This one goes upside down three times in the dark!! And she was sooo excited to do it! Here she is in front of Rockin' Roller Coaster Aerosmith...
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| She was so proud!! |
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| Eden and Michael on the Tea Cups-kind of looks like he was having just as much fun:) |
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| This castle was lovely...it had a pretty waterfall too! | | | | | | |
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| Sorry it is so blurry...we were so cold we might have been shivering! |
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| Our lips were frozen... |
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| The picture doesn't do it justice!!! |
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We are glad that we went...not so sure if we are going to go again...we are afraid when its warmer there will be even more people!
What a fun experience!!! (and it sounds like Eden and Siena are the same - she LOVED space mountain when we went here in FL - all dark, inside and upside down and FAST! Meanwhile, this momma couldn't enjoy it at all because I was so worried about her!!) :)
ReplyDeleteEden LOVED space mountain in Florida too! She was very, very disappointed because in Paris she was too short to ride it...we tried twice:) Weird huh?? We were in Disney in Florida 1.5 years ago so she would have been even shorter!! Space Mountain scared me too with her b/c you ride single file...as opposed to side by side:) where I can hold onto her!
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