Disney Day 2

Disney Paris 2

Started off the day at McDonald’s Disney Village for breakfast, something the French have managed to totally screw up, and then Starbucks for coffee. In the park just after opening time and holy crowds! Jeez, we thought coming on weekdays would be better and less busy, no such luck! It was packed like summer time on a Monday. So much for that plan. First ride we went to was the Buzz Lightyear Blast of course! We grabbed a fast pass ticket, then got in the really short regular line, rode it once, got off and rode it again with no wait using our fastpasses. Two days at Disney and we’ve managed to ride Slinky Dog, Pirates of the Caribbean and Buzz Lightyear (FOUR times)! LOL Oy vey! Oh and doesn't French Buzz just sound wrong?! I laughed every time we went by to ride. It was soon time to make our way across the park and we visited the Pirate Beach on the way. We saw skull rock and the pirate ship, played on the pirate playground for a while and then went to Frontierland for lunch. We had reservations at the Cowboy Cookout with the characters. Colin got to see Daisy, Woody, Tigger, Pluto, and Donald, who turned out to be more of a d%ck than a duck. :( In Donald’s defense some snotty little Italian kid was tormenting him, BUT he straight up ignored and blew Colin off three different times while Colin was trying to wait patiently to meet him. Colin didn’t seem to notice or be too bothered, but I just spent 65 Euro on some overpriced cheeseburgers to eat with the damn characters and I expect every one of them to treat my kid like a rock star! That afternoon we managed to work the crowds and get some other rides in. We met Peter Pan and Wendy and saw a sweet little Make-A-Wish kiddo meet them too, she was so excited, it was too cute. Colin amused the crowd when Peter Pan asked how old he was and Colin proudly replied “THREE!” while holding up four fingers. Peter laughed and translated in French and then everyone else laughed. We rode Peter Pan and then jumped Parks to go back to Disney Studios for the “Moteurs….Action!” Stunt show with McQueen. Colin was really into it and loved all the special effects, shooting, motorcycle tricks and racecars doing stunts. After that it was about time for the afternoon pick-me-up trip to Starbucks and then back into DisneyLand. We rode Snow White, Pinocchio, The Haunted Mansion, a few others I know I’m forgetting, before catching “Disney Magic on Parade.” We purposely went to the very end of the parade route near the park exit so we could dash out when it was over and beat the crowds to dinner. The first two floats came by and then it appeared as though the gate that the floats exited was stuck or broken and the whole parade backed up and had to sit for a good 15 minutes before it could be opened. The poor dancers in between the floats were running out of things to do to entertain the crowd and they had to sing and dance the same song over and over, and over, and over. We were right in between Pinocchio’s float and the Toy Story float. So we had marionette dolls and little green army guys entertaining us. Colin got to play patty cake with one of the dolls and the army guys were doing pushups in formation to try to entertain the crowd. I have to give them all credit because you could tell they were running out of ideas, lol! FINALLY the gate was opened and the parade started moving again. The parade was awesome and had floats from just about all the famous Disney tales, Colin loved it. As soon as the parade ended we dashed out to Disney Village to eat dinner at Rainforest Café. Colin wanted to eat by the elephants but we ended up near a fish tank. After dinner we decided we were all tired and probably not going to make it to the fireworks (again) so we headed back to the hotel to get some rest. Game plan tomorrow will be get to the park early, go back and nap midday and then come back for dinner and fireworks at night.