Disney Day 1

Disney Paris 1

Our Disney adventure began about noon and we headed into the Disney Studios Park first. We went back to the Toy Story area of the park and rode the Slinky Dog ride first. The park was pretty busy and there were a lot of crowds and waiting, which we kind of expected on Sunday. We did the Armageddon Special Effects Show/Ride thing and Colin was not too terribly impressed with that one. We walked around the park some and then went to the Stitch Live Show, which Colin definitely approved of. After that was Playhouse Disney Live and Colin really got into that one. He was doing the Hot Dog dance from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and was excited to see The Little Einsteins on stage too. He sang and danced and had a blast at that one. When we came out of that show we lined up to watch the Stars n Cars parade, which was neat, but Colin was a little disappointed there was no McQueen and no race cars in the parade. I’m with you Colin, Stars n’ Cars is not complete without McQueen! We decided it was time for some coffee so we left the park and headed to the Starbucks (hallelujah!) just outside in Disney Village and then took the train back to our hotel. When we had arrived at the hotel this morning they didn’t have our room ready, so we just left our stuff in the car and took the train to Disney. Our plan was to try to catch the fireworks/light show at 10:30 tonight so we wanted to go back to the hotel and get all our stuff in and arranged now instead of trying to do it at midnight with an exhausted mom kiddo. We got checked in, unloaded, recharged and then caught the train back to Disney (the hotel is only two train stops away, just about a 7 minute train ride). We went into the DisneyLand Park this time and Colin couldn’t pass by the Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast ride, thankfully there was only a 20 minute wait. He called it the “Pume Zurg” ride, because you become a space ranger, ride around in the little space cruiser and shoot (aka pume, (pew-m)) targets to help Buzz defeat Zurg. The fastpass time was only about 30 minutes out, so we pulled our fastpass tickets, got in the regular line, waited 20 minutes to ride, then as soon as we got off the ride it was time to check in with our fastpasses and so we exited the ride, then turned around went right back to the front of the line to ride again. Colin was ecstatic. After the second ride we told Colin we had to go eat some dinner. We attempted to go to Pizza Planet, like in the Toy Story movie, but it turned out to only be open for lunch. We found a less exciting place that was open and ate there. After dinner we went got in line to drive the racecars at Autopia, but shortly after getting in line Colin had to pee, so we had to get out of the line. Ugh…this is why I tried to make you pee before we got IN the line Colin! Oh well, potty mission accomplished and it was off to the Pirates of the Caribbean to ride. It was about this point we were all tired and thinking there was no way we’d make it to 10:30 fireworks, so we scratched that plan and went back to the hotel.