Disneyland Paris

It looks like Disneyland, it smells like Disneyland, but it's just a little off. Great place...but not the original. With that said let's get into our day.

We're only a few short hours away but we got a late start and ended up there at 12:30...the princesses only recieve the masses between 10-noon. What the heck are they thinking? HELLO...half of the kids there were dressed as princesses....you can't buy anything pink these days without a giant princess face on it...why wouldn't they have those chicks out there all day making the 7,000 kids shleping their wares happy?

So we roll into the park and the girls could see the last few kids getting their photo's taken with Aurora and Ariel while 80 or so other poor "late" kids hung on the outskirts and cried, including ours!



So....I was told by this nice mom at the store that the new Buzz Lightyear ride was a hit and that I shouldn't miss it. (I no longer like that woman in the store, where ever she is) Buzz sucks! Now we've spent 3 hours in the car, missed the princess momment and have stood in line for 45 minutes only to have the crap scared out of my kids in a very dark neon monster filled ride that has now broken down. So I'm sitting in the ride praying for it to start so I can get my screaming kids off of it!




It's now 1:30 or something and we head over to the annual pass office because you have to go there on the day you purchase the tickets in order to get your picture taken or else...I don't know what the or else is...probably or else your screwed out of the pass...I don't know...anyway, we head there and that takes 30 minutes...so at this point we aren't feeling like the happiest family on Earth.

Because I LOVE Disneyland...I'm still optomistic. Then We decide to hit Dumbo....That will be a good one...I mean it's DUMBO...Dumbo Good! Buzz bad! So we get in line...1 hour...they FINALLY let us in...and because they don't count the people while they are letting them inside...we of course, got jipped and couldn't get on a Dumbo....so Elle starts to cry....doesn't understand that we'll be next FOR SURE! But we manage to real her in and wait the 1 minute 20 seconds for the next round. Yippee...now it's time....so the guy opens the gate and slams Elle's hand inside where it gets stuck...because it's really chubby!

I'm freaking out...Elle's screaming and the rhode scholar ride guy carries on letting people rush past us! I yank her hand out and try to settle her while checking to make sure her hand isn't broken... (the guy looks at me and does a very weak..."oh, sorry" ) I lead my screaming broken child out to the Dumbo's and naturally....they are all taken again! So I go back to the dude and he tries to shuffle me back in line...after he just slammed my kids hand in the door as well as screwing us out of the last ride.....I about lost it! I am not kidding...at this point I could have just about ripped that guys head off...Dan jumped out of his Dumbo and told me to get in his with both girls and he would take Meme and sit out. The whole 1 minute in the air the girls were so happy and all of their woes were gone...but I was soooooooooo pissed off I could hardly see straight.

The ride ended and I expressed my mood to the exit lady who offered us another ride...which I declined...Buzz and Dumbo suck. Dan and I looked at each other and were like....ok...let's shake it off and find our happy place...because right now...it aint in Disneyland!



I will say that the second half of the day went GREAT! It got better and better. The park closed at 8 so that was kind of a bummer but the day turned around at Pirates Island. The kids played in the treehouse and had fun but the best was yet to come...."It's a small world is wonderful"

That ride was the turning point for me...the line was short and the girls LOVED it! We rolled into the fairytale boat ride and Casey's train ride and we ended there because it was 8 o'clock. We were heading out and we saw that people we still being let on the Carousel so we jumped in line...but the attendant said the park was opened until midnight for those with special passes...I looked around and noticed that we were the only ones without a special pass (badge around our necks) so I started to leave the line and he was so nice...he stopped us and said..."what could it hurt...go ahead" AWE! He totally made up for Jackass Dumbo dude!

Carousel good.....Disneyland good!