Disneyland Paris

The happiest place on earth! Disneyland Paris is a short 30 min train ride from the centre of Paris (and our hotel). Even though it appeared to be school holidays we picked the right time to go to the place where MAGIC happens.

Having never experienced anything like Disneyland before, it was a wonderment for the senses. When the train of characters come by loud fun music sounds from speaks all over the park alerting the crowds to the trains presence. Everyone stops and waves at the characters and dances to the fun music and it is like a mini party that follows the train around the park.

We headed out of town square (the entrance) into Frontierland where I was scared by the doorman at the Haunted Manor. Expectation of being scared can be enough but when I went to raise the knocker on the front door and the doorman loudly tsked me - I wasn't expecting it. He was amused how spooked I was already and the ride hadn't even started. GB assured me it was the same ride from when he had gone years before with his father. Pretty impressive considering the sets and design etc are pretty old.

From there it was to the first roller coaster of the day "Big Thunder Mountain". Turns out I quite like roller coasters so I dragged GB's reluctant bottom to the Indiana Jones and the temple of peril coaster, where GB experienced his first 360 degree inversion on a roller coaster. It was pretty scary actually :). Some of the other highlights of the day: "Space Mountain" and "Pirates of the Caribean" and of course the "Mad Hatters Tea Cups" All the rides that I had heard about.

All the buildings and rides are so detailed. There really is so much to take in. And don't forget the gift shops. It was like they were an evil virus replicating itself and taking over the park.

Incredibly fun day and worth every euro we spent on it.

Afterwards we had some administration do to. ie: plan tomorrows events, as we grow closer to the end of the Paris leg of the journey we are both aware that we are not going to be able to fit everything in that can be done. And then there was the small issue of finding another hotel. Turns out that the hotel of awesome that I booked for the first 4 nights is booked out from Saturday onwards. So we are moving from just behind the Lourve to closer to Gare De Lyon in a couple of days.

Tomorrow we have some Basillicas and cathedrals to attend to.

I think both GB and I miss Paris already and we haven't even left!