EuroDisney update!

We survived EuroDisneyland!! After leaving at some ungodly hour of the morning to get to the train station on time, I fell asleep on the train and missed the channel crossing and all, which is only 20 minutes anyway, but when I awoke the sun was rising over the French countryside and it was just gorgeous. Little cute villages with quaint little houses and churches, and chimneys chugging out smoke. It was just adorable! (Side note - forgot to mention something else adorable - they mail is delivered THROUGH A SLOT IN THE DOOR!!!)

So of course I had a croissant with jam for breakfast. We changed trains at Lille which was FREEZING. Why? because for some reason they've decided this huge major train station in a freezing part of France does not need proper walls. So we waited around there for a bit and froze, got on a train and wound up in Marne de Vallee, the Disneyland station. From there it was a quick train ride to Bussy Saint Georges - Chassey where our hotel was. It's an eeerie town, obviously built to accommodate tourists, of which there were few because it was the low season. So it was almost deserted, and all the buildings look the same. After checking in and finding our room had the most hilarious smallest bathroom ever (below) we headed off to our first day of Disneyland adventure!


SMALLEST. BATHROOM. EVER.

The entrance to Disneyland is pretty spesh, and there's a place called Disney Village just outside the station which is a collection of touristy things, like a HUGE Planet Hollywood restaurant and a big expensive souvenir store. Interestingly, we had to have our bags checked to go to the village, but there was no security at all at the entrance to the actual park, which I found surprising. I was at least expecting a bag check...but yes, crazy french.




Sleeping Beauty's Castle

First stop was Fantasyland and Alice's Curious Labyrinth, in which we went a little mad. Me, because of my obsession with Alice In Wonderland, and Alice, well, because her name is Alice. Unfortunately we didn't actually see Alice or the Mad Hatter or the March Hare - the tea party was closed for refurbishments. But I did get to see the vowel-singing, pipe-smoking caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, the white rabbit, Mome Raths, and we got to go in the Queen of Hearts castle. And we saw a rather mad Queen of Hearts, crazily enough.





And of course, we had to do the tea cups:



After that, there was Big Thunder Mountain, which we ended up going on about 3 times over the weekend, most of Frontier Land, the Pirates of the Carribbean ride, which wasn't worth the 40 minute wait, and the parade at night time, which was kind of disappointing. Most of all, it was COLD. I'm talking so cold my toes were hurting, adn I had about three or four layers of clothes on.







Back it the hotel, there was some wacky dubbed tv shows on, and sleep and, it appeared, a bit of snow overnight. My first snow experience! (speaking of which, it snowed around town today but not at my work)



The next day was more Thunder mountain, a crazy haunted house ride, more Thunder mountain, and Discoveryland, which was really disappointing. A couple of the big rides, like Space Mountain, were closed, and unless you were interested in video games there really wasn't a lot to see there. We also saw Mickey's Winter Wonderland ice show, and got to see Mickey and Minnie have a romantic skate together (aw!):



Afterwards we trotted off to the Princess Parade which, despite being in the daytime and therefore no lights, was much better than the parade the night before. Then it was back to (slightly warmer) London and not enough sleep before work today:). I have heaps more photos, so these are just a teaser really.

Anyway, it's good to be back in London but it has given me a taste for France, especially the possibility of Paris. 20 minutes under the Channel really is very weird.