How do I write a post about a day at a theme park? We spent the whole day at a theme park! I am not sure how this compares to the past 2 weeks of seeing history and amazing architecture and culture and getting all that travel experience. The one thing I knew would happen, and I was right, was that we were so happy to be "in the Disney bubble" for the day. We had no concerns about anything, felt like we knew where we were and what was going on. It didn't even feel like we weren't in the USA most of the time...I constantly had to remind myself we were in France!
We had breakfast at the hotel - a bit later than we meant to, but nothing serious. We went straight from there to the Walt Disney Studios Park. We realized that rides open and closed in staggered hours - meaning that not everything opened at park opening time, and things closed before park closing time. So, what we ended up doing early and late in the day had a lot to do with what was open!
We started with Stitch Live! - all loved it, a very adorable interactive show, much like Turtle Talk with Crush. (Yes, I'm going to compare things to WDW, which I've been to 10 times so that's our "baseline"!)
We saw information that the new Marvel campus was going to possibly have a "soft opening" while we were there, so we checked that - but all the construction walls were still up, so we were disappointed there.
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| Curt always called N his "Boo", from Monster's Inc. |
Next was Cars Road Trip, which was a different theme of the old Backlot Tour at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
We stayed in World of Pixar (Toy Story land), and rode the Slinky Dog Zigzag Spin, which is basically a Musical Express ride.
Then we waited in far too long a line to ride "Cars Quatre Roues Rallye", which is a short "Alien Saucer Swirl" style ride that does NOT warrant an hour wait. By the end of this, Curt and I were developing headaches, though we weren't sure why. (We were hydrating and eating...maybe it was just the increase in temps).
We had lunch reservations in the other park, so we made our way over there and it took us less time than we thought. So we did our next "must see" attraction, and visited the dragon under the castle - by far the COOLEST thing to see there!!
Then it was time for our lunch reservations at Auberge de Cendrillon. We walked in and realized that the Princesses were back! (Somehow I had no idea that this had happened between when I booked it and when we got there). We all got pictures with Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora and Minnie Mouse.
Sadly, my headache turned into a migraine as we waited for our food to be served, and when the main course arrived, I was suffering pretty badly and the food was threatening to make me very ill and possibly embarrass myself. I tried cool water on my face in the bathroom, but that didn't work. Finally I had to give up and just get somewhere dark where I could lie down. I asked my wonderful husband to finish the meal without me, and he explained to the waiter what happened. They managed to get my meal and dessert all packaged up for me and brought it back to the hotel room. After they finished eating, N went back to the Studios park to ride some things on her own, while Curt and S came to check on me, bring me my food, and wait for me to recover.
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| Curt's fancy dessert! |
N rode the rest of the rides in the Pixar land - the RC Racer and Ratatouille (which she said kept breaking down but was otherwise identical to the WDW version we'd rode in March and hadn't really enjoyed all that much). She then got to ride her favorite, Tower of Terror. By the time she did all of that and was heading back to the hotel, I was recovered and ready to get back out again.
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| I really wanted a picture next to this, but was in so much pain I just snapped the shot I could get as I went by on my way back to the hotel. |
We went back to the parks and kept it a bit low-key for a while, riding the Disney Railroad all the way around the park.
We then again made our way back through Adventureland and rode Pirates a second time (we love it that much!) right before having dinner at Captain Jack's restaurant, which has the ride right through it! We decided to play around with the dining plan a bit here, and shared a variety of dishes so we all got a taste of something interesting. We really loved the ambiance in here, and would totally go back when we were perhaps more hungry...doing this meal less than 4 hours after our big lunch was not good planning, it turned out.
The rest of the night was spent exploring things before they closed: we did Alice in Wonderland's labyrinth:
From there, we wandered back to Discoveryland (where Hyperspace Mountain is) to check out Star Tours, which was basically another identical ride to the one in Florida.
We may have done a couple more things, but we don't remember now and we decided that it wasn't worth it to stay for the fireworks a second time. We made it back to the hotel and actually watched the fireworks from our balcony.
The plan was to go to the city of Paris the next day, but Curt and S were very hesitant about leaving the Disney bubble and going to see even more of what we'd done for 2 weeks already. I admit, I was really leaning their way, but also strongly felt that we couldn't be this close and NOT go. N was definitely wanting to go see the Eiffel Tower. We went to bed agreeing to "see how we feel after a night of sleep".
All the pictures, so many pictures! https://link.shutterfly.com/JanCN1CA9rb
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