Disneyland Paris

Finally some pictures...

We left Brussels at 9am on Tuesday 24/07 and arrived a little after noon in Paris. That was the longest trip in a car that me and the kids have ever taken, but thanks to my niece, there was no whining. Our hotel was like 5min-walk away from a shopping mall, so we went straight there for lunch.

      

We chilled a little there then checked in our appartment room (it was an appartment hotel).
The next day, we got ourselves ready for DISNEYLAND!!!! Grandma some matching Tahitian outfit for the kids, they were so cute that we had to take a picture of them looking sharp.


We rented a van to fit everybody in but Juri wanted us to take the shuttle (10min ride) to Disneyland. Let me tell you that I wasn't very excited about that idea, so we made a deal that the next day, we'll take the car to Disney.
We were among the first ones waiting in front of the hotel for the shuttle, but as the time drew near, there were more and more people coming. When the bus came, everybody rushed to the entrance and couldn't care less about the little one. So, as in Rome you have to do as the Romans, I, with Ilyah in my arms, pushed everybody around too (adults mostly) and got in. Thankfully, we were all able to get in. It was tight but it was just for 10-15 min. As a bad wife, I made sure that Juri remembers that time he didn't listen to me. Moreover, we would have to live it again at the end of the day to go back to the hotel.

Anyway, here are some pics at the park that my dad took. I barely took any pics because of the kids.







Now, you might have noticed that someone is missing from most of the pictures. Here's who is missing and why...



It was a pretty difficult time for Ilyah. He's a little energy ball and can't stand still for more than 5 seconds. We all had a horrible time in lines so we decided that Juri would take a walk around the park with him. Ilyah wanted to go straight to the games and didn't understand that we had to wait. On the other hand, the girls were great and well behaved.
We went home at around 5pm; we were EXHAUSTED!!!

The next day, we took the car, which was a MUCH BETTER experience. There was enough space for everybody, we were more relaxed and it was much more comfy.
We pretty much did the same games as the day before; we mostly stayed at Fantasyland. Juri and I did only one game in Adventureland. It was fun and interesting to be among teenagers.
Because we didn't have the opportunity to visit "It's a small world", we decided that we would do that first thing the 2nd day. Holy cow, we ALL LOVED that one. It was so much fun!!!! We were able to do it twice in a row because there was almost nobody and the girl was really nice. I think it was our favorite spot.
Eversince we told the girls that we were going to Disneyland, they all wanted to meet Mickey. So the 2nd day, we made sure that we would meet him and take some pics with him. As you might have noticed, there was no pics of Mickey above... because the girls chickened out when they saw him in real life. Taiamani was terrified. As for Ilyah, is there anything that scares him? He just cut the line and went straight to Mini until the guard just stopped him.
We were glad that we decided to book a 2nd day to avoid the stress of trying to do everything quickly .

Thanks again to my wonderful cousin Elise, who lives in Paris, who was kind enough to get us some discounted tickets and to invite us for dinner.