Euro Disneyland!

After sleeping in leisurely (like we seem to do everyday this week, as we adjust to the time difference) we woke up, and went to the grocery store to get food and make breakfast in our Villa before we caught the bus to EuroDisney. The transportation systems around here and especially in Paris are amazing! They totally crush any kind of system that we have in the States, except maybe Bart in the bay area could compete with it.
Going to the store or “le supermarche” was a really cool experience. Europeans are so smart, they give you a push-cart without a basket so you can attach an upper or lower basket depending on the amount of space that you need. It’s all removable and interchangeable. Obviously everything in the store is in French so we had to guess what things were by the pictures. My very limited French helped me figure out a few things like what an apple is called (“pomme”) and what kind of soup to buy. I really liked the whole experience, Eddy and his parents seemed a little overwhelmed, but they got used to things as we went along. We also stopped at the “la boulangerie” or bakery to get a couple of baggets. That is another amazing thing about France, the bread. Oh my goodness it is yummy!
Disneyland is not too far from where we are staying so it is a quick bus ride from here to there, except that along the way we stop at other hotels where we pick up more people so we can get packed together like sardines. But other than that the thought in the transportation system is efficient. There were so many people at Disneyland! It was a mad house. There were all kinds of people there from the U.K., Ireland, Russia, and France of course but not so many from America. I wouldn’t be surprised if we were the only American’s there. I think it was off-season for tourists so all the European locals took advantage of the holiday. It made listening to people in line pretty interesting with all the accents around us.
We actually went to Disney Studio’s first where Eddy bought me some French Minnie Mouse ears, which are adorable (I have always wanted a pair). There we got to see the magic of making movies behind the scenes, like how special effects work, car stunts, and pyrotechnics. It was pretty cool, especially the tanker scene from our tour of the back lot where a truck tanker exploded in front of us (hot! by the way) and the car stunt show we went to. That was amazing! Make sure you check out our video from the show on this post.
After our studio visit we went to Disneyland. We tried to go on Space Mountain in Futureland, but the wait was an hour and a half, so we decided to pass on that and explore. The first ride we actually went on was the carousel, because it was the only one with a normal sized line. After that we went through Sleeping Beauty’s castle and then to get some “French fast food.” By then it was dark so we tried to squeeze in a few more things like the Pirate ride and the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House. Those were pretty cool, however, Pirates had a super long line. After all that and the time difference we were pretty exhausted so we left the park to catch our bus back to the hotel and went to bed. We saw way more than that, but it was such a packed day that it’s hard to describe everything, especially 2 days after we went there, so make sure you look at the pictures.