Disneyland and Paris Visite Pass

Before we left for Seattle, I received the Disneyland Paris tickets and the Paris Visite passes in the mail. I was pretty surprised because they only took a couple of days to get here from France. Disneyland Paris is celebrating their 20th Anniversary ( Just like Jill and I) this year. They've add a new nighttime show that looks really cool. You can check it out here if you want. They had a promotion for the two parks (Disneyland and Walt Disney Studios) for one day at 25% off. It was amazing there were different prices depending on the site I visited - US Disneyland Paris site vs UK Disneyland Paris site vs the Pairs Info (official Paris Tourism site). The official tourism site ended up being the best deal.

Also we got the Paris Visite pass which allows 5 days of unlimited travel using the Metro (Subway), RER (train) and buses throughout the Paris area. This will include transportation to Disneyland, which is in the farthest travel zone that we can go. It also will allow us to get to Versailles, which Rylee wants to visit. The Visite pass will also allow us to get back and forth from the Eurostar to the hotel. I'm hoping that we won't need to pay for any other form of transportation while we're there. In things I read, it might not be the cheapest way to go but I didn't want to have purchase individual tickets especially right after we get there. I think it's going to be intimidating enough just to get around. I just wanted one less thing to worry about.

It looks like most of the museums are free to kids under 18. There is a pass called the Paris Museum Pass that I haven't decided if I'm going to get. We'd be able to get into some the the main attractions, the Louvre, Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe, and the Palace of Versailles to name a few. I'm not sure if it would be worth it. The biggest attraction to me would be that it would allow us to bypass some of the lines. I can always pick one up when we get to Paris but I'll have to think about that a little bit. I'm not sure how many of these things we'll be able to see. We get to Paris on Wed before noon and leave on Sunday at about 5:00 PM. During this time, one day will be spent in Disneyland and most of another day will be in Versailles. That gives us one full day and two half days for sightseeing. At least the day we get there, the Louvre is open late so we might be able to spend some extra time there.

Our Annual Mariners Game

Went to Seattle to take mom to a Mariners game. They ended up losing but we had a blast. We got a suite this time, they cost less this weekend because of the holiday. It was really nice to be able to move around and visit with everyone. Eric, Shanah and Jackson joined us and it was fun to catch up.

Made it back to the hotel and we're all tired. I'm a little worried because in a couple months we'll be doing this for 2 weeks straight. On another note, at our hotel this weekend is a Horror and Paranormal Conference. People are dressed up and tonight is the Masquerade Ball. Could be an interesting night to people watch. We did go to the vendor area and saw some interesting things. I was hoping to get a couple ideas for Halloween but didn't see much. There were a couple of actors and actresses from some horror movies. Richard Kiehl was there, he was Jaws in the James Bond series and he was also in Happy Gilmore. Anyway, it was a fun day.

Olympic Field Hockey

When we ordered the tickets for the events, we didn't know who would be playing. It's all a crap shoot. You pick the day and time you want and then they release the schedule after the ordering process is mostly done. We're going to a men's Field Hockey event and they released the schedule today. We get to see two events, Great Britain vs Argentina and Germany vs Belgium. We just missed getting tickets for a women's USA game by a day. Anyway, I'm really happy about the Great Britain vs Argentina game. It should be a lot of fun to watch a game with the hometown crowd. I can root for Great Britain even though I'm a true red, white and bluer....can't I?

The field is really brightly colored, it's blue with pink sidelines. I think we have fairly good seats for this event so it should be fun to watch. If you want to see the venue, you can click here.

Sneak Peek of the Olympics Tickets

Here's a picture of what some of the tickets are going to look like. I read that the color will correspond to the color scheme of the venue. I think they look really nice. The one on the right looks like it's for the opening ceremony, one event that we'd have to sell body parts in order to have enough money to pick up a ticket. The cheap seat for the opening ceremony is $327 per ticket and the most expensive is $3727 per ticket. 

We should have our tickets in hand the first part of  July. I think the ticket in the middle is for field hockey, one of the events that we get to see. We still only have two tickets for a swimming event, it's a high demand event and I haven't been able to pick up any more. I think I'll have one more chance in June when they release any unsold tickets. If we don't get two more, I'm not sure what we'll do. The swimming event is one that I'd really like to see, especially in the Aquatics Centre.

If you find anything on the blog that doesn't seem to work right, please let me know. Jeff tried to post a comment but it wasn't working. I think I fixed that but there might be other things. I'd like to work out all those issues before we go.

2 Months Until Our Trip

I can't believe it's only 2 months from today until we leave for London. I'm going to begin using this blog to post any updates and keep everyone informed. Also, I want to get more familiar with the way the blog works so that I'm not spending too much time figuring things out while we're on vacation.

Today Jill and I got some good walking shoes. We know we're going to be on our feet for pretty much 2 weeks straight and we figured it would be well worth the cost if they help us reduce the fatigue. Our plane leaves on July 20th at 6:45 PM and gets into London, after a direct 9 hour flight, at 11:50 AM on the 21st.     Our plan is to stay up as long as we can and take in a few sights before we pass out.