Day 6 - Battle with the mouse

We conquered the mouse today. Our journey consisted of a short metro ride and a longer train ride to Disneyland. We loaded up before with a couple of croissants for the road. Disneyland Paris has some of the same rides, like Phantom Manor (Haunted House), Pirates of the Caribbean, Buzz Lightyear and Thunder Mountain Railroad. There are a few differences like Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, which seems bigger and there are some rides that don’t exist here. The park is smaller but still has the Disney charm. They have an attached park called Walt Disney Studio Park (like California Adventure) that had more restaurants, the Tower of Terror, a cool stunt car/motorcycle show, and a cinema presentation.  Along the lines of Downtown Disney, Paris’s version is Disney Village that had Planet Hollywood and more shopping.  There seemed to be a lot of people, however, our longest wait for any ride was probably 30 minutes, with 20 minutes being the average wait time.  We did notice that it’s not quite as clean as the one in the states.

It was HOT today and we really worked up a sweat. It was probably 90 degrees with 90% humidity.  We managed to keep drinking water. They did have drinking fountains that we used to refill the water bottles, which was nice. The food in the park was pretty expensive but we expected that anyway.  

One funny thing that happened today was when we were tired and eating dinner. Jarret asked Rylee if she could see out of her left eye, held up two fingers and asked “Close your right eye. How many fingers do you see?” She blurted back “Two and I see one idiot”….got us all laughing a bit.

The kids are rummy, we all stink from sweating the whole day and we’re tired. However we had a really great day. We are trying to get the kids to limit their complaining and appreciate what they are seeing. They need to learn to fight through being tired and hot and hungry in order to appreciate what they’re actually experiencing. I guess it’s part of being a teenager but we’re working on it. We’re getting cleaned up so that we can get a good night’s sleep. Tomorrow morning we‘re meeting someone from the Paris Greeters program who is going to take us on a walking tour for a couple hours.

 Skull Rock

 Sleeping Beauty's Castle

 Phantom Manor

 Thunder Mountain - we did see a train get stuck at the top and they had to walk all the people down the track.

 Tombstones as Phantom Manor

 Family pic at Walt Disney Studios

 Stunt show

 Disneyland Paris 20 year Anniversary

 The Castle

 Rylee behind the wheel

Jarret behind the wheel