If this song from Cinderella is to be believed then Teneille's heart has been wishing to go to Disneyland for a long time. Yesterday that wish/dream came true as we spent the day at Teneille's happiest place on Earth.
We left home early-ish with the aim of being at Paris Disneyland before the park opened and leaving after it closed. That's 9:30am-8:30pm, people. We caught the train out and for the first time since arriving here the public transport system didn't hate us. Our tickets worked as expected, we didn't get lost. It was good.
Disney Paris includes two separate parks - Disneyland and Walt Disney Studios. Our tickets got us into both and when we arrived and saw the front of the park Teneille kept making faces like this...
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| Mickey welcoming us to his place. |
We headed to Frontierland first to do the Big Thunder Mountain ride which was a more than 30-minute wait. We then waited 30 minutes in line so Teneille could get a picture with Jack Skellington (that's the Pumpkin King to you mortals). So, after 1.5 hours at Disneyland we'd done two things. Not ideal. Thankfully things picked up from there.
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| Teneille hitting it off with Jack Skellington. He also agreed to a hug and a selfie. |
We jumped to Adventureland where we did the Temple of Doom ride as well as Pirates of the Caribbean. So far, none of the rides had overly impressed us as being so-called 'thrill' rides. We also climbed the treehouse of the Swiss family Robinson.
In Fantasyland we climbed Sleeping Beauty's castle which was tres magnifique. We also ventured into the Queen of Hearts hedge maze and Snow White's dark forest. Teneille was keen to see the Princess Pavilion but it was like a 50-minute wait so we gave that one a pass. It was at this point we decided to jump over to Walt Disney Studios as they close earlier than Disneyland.
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| Sleeping Beauty's castle. |
A lot of the rides we wanted to go on at the studios park were huge waits of 65+ minutes but the Aerosmith ride was only five minutes. We went on that twice and was the best ride of the day. Pitch black, fast, sideways, upside down, rock music blaring. It was awesome. And produces photos like this...
Back over at Disneyland some hours later we hit Discoveryland to ride Space Mountain (or Hyperspace Mountain since Disney bought out the rights to Star Wars). This was also awesome. And we saw the big parade of Disney characters up the main street.
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| Warning: First three rows may get singed. |
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| The Buzz Lightyear ride... which Teneille found perplexing, evidently. |
With all the exploration done we did some shopping for the kids. And Teneille. And our sisters. Then we decided to try and have some dinner before the big illumination spectacular thing-a-majig that signals the closure of the park. Oh wait. Sorry. No dinner for us. Because all the restaurants and shops and food stalls close at 6pm two hours before the park does. This makes no business sense to me whatsoever. Our feet hurt and we were hungry. What was worse: No boulangeries would be open by the time we got back to Paris so we were not happy.
The light projection/water fountain/laser/fireworks show around Sleeping Beauty's castle looked amazing. Hats off to the woman standing next to us who held her phone up for 25 minutes straight and filmed the whole thing. How her arms didn't drop off from fatigue I don't know. The only thing we didn't like about the display was how the parts they did around Beauty and the Beast had replaced the original film's footage with the new live action film.
We found a supermarket back in Paris still open at 10pm and bought a baguette, ham and cheese that actually tasted awesome. I tried to buy a bottle of prosecco to wash it all down but apparently, they can't serve alcohol after 9pm. WTF?! Why even stay open if you deny me the right to buy a bottle of wine?
I have no way of knowing how many kilometres we walked today but am going to pencil in a conservative 7km. So that's 59.5km total so far. My feet hurt.
And that was the end of a HUGE day. I asked Teneille how she rated it on a scale of one to 10. Her reply: Great!
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