So day 2 of Paris was my day to see a museum: I chose Musee D ' Orsay over the Louvre for this visit. C: Unfortunately it's a holiday weekend here so the rest of the world was also visiting the museum on a rainy day. There was an hour wait and then the place was crazy crowded... but at least I *love* these artists and works. So it was still lovely! A few cat pics of course!
Then I met up with Rachel and Chris and hit up a French market... so atmospheric of course! Next Shakespeare and Co Bookstore where Chris bonded with the resident cat. (Perhaps the best thing about Paris is how much they libe their cats!) We then wandered back up for dinner and drinks and just hanging out. But we tried to make an early night of it in prep for Disney the next day!
So yesterday...all day really...was Disney magic! In the rain... ;) The rain in the morning was a downer for sure... BUT it seriously cleared out the park! Rach and I never were longer than 20 minutes in any line! Takeaways were that Haunted Mansion has this whole wild west ghost element towards the end... Pirates was lovely... Possibly even more so than in CA and it was really long... maybe longer than in CA. And it was fun to go on rides like Star Tours and Small World that haven't been renovated yet. Kind of nostalgic!
The other park... Disney Studios... wasn't as great. There was a new section about Ratatouille that we were excited about... but so was the rest of the world. The ride was a 2 hr wait... the restaurant was sold out for the day... and it was so busy... and of course this corresponded with us being starving... so we started to get grumpy then. Couldn't have the fun restaurant we wanted we ended up at a whatever cafeteria and at least found somewhere to sit and eat and relax a bit.
Then we did a couple of rides and shows and such... but we really weren't feeling Disney Studios... and probably a multi pass isn't necessary in my opinion.
We were still trying to kill time until the Nighttime show at 10:30... so we did Disney village just in time for a happy hour and had some cheap wine... then saw a Disney version of busking... basically Cirque du Soleil for free! Then grabbed a Starbucks Coffee mostly for the wifi. And back to the original park.
We'd done it all once already... and we'd successfully gotten it to after 8pm... so we were pretty chill on return. Did Star Tours again, did Buzz Lightyear for the first time, and then Haunted Mansion again before grabbing a *quick* snack and getting our spot right before the show...
It was really amazing what they could project against the castle. (Poss my fave of the Disney castles, btw.) It won some Paris award for best entertainment for over a million euros... 20 minutes of spectacular...
And then a long and weary but not bad hour home... and Sleep!!!
Today I'll slowly see a few more things... but no pressure... before heading to Barcelona!
Our Disney rides and such:
Haunted Mansion
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril
(where we accidentally ride a mondo roller coaster and almost die! )
Pirates
Star Tours
Sleeping Beauty Castle
Taniere du Dragon (dragon in a cave)
Small World
Fairy tale cruise
(Storybook Island in French... a team fave!)
Peter Pan
And we saw a Goofy garden party show twice during all this!
Ate in Studio 1
Armageddon special effects (weren't fans)
Tower of Terror (Rach waited for me as I went on quickly)
Cinemagique
Disney village: happy hour in a castle
Acrobatic show... with hula hoops
Starbucks!
Star Tours I I
Buzz Lightyear
Haunted Mansion I I
Disney Dreams Spectacular (or whatever that's called)
The *long* but happy ride home!
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