Disneyland Paris!

Written on Monday, December 5, 2007

Thanks to the company we got free passes to Disneyland! I went with Adrienne, Mauricio, Joelle, Amanda, and Jarrod. It was overall a very magical day full of Disney magic! Hahahaa Considering our show is called A Disneyland Adventure we made sure to hit up all the rides in our show. In Haunted Mansion we heard our music and saw a lot of things that they tried replicating for our show. I had been on this before but now I have a different appreciation for it. Same with Pirates of the Carribean. While cueing up for the ride they were playing the music so we were all dancing and doing the routine and probably looked like huge tools! The small world here was much better than in the states. I think maybe it was just because it was newer so it looked so shiny and nice.

Then we went on Thunder Mountain which I remember going on at age 7 and balling my eyes out. I was slightly nervous for it and I was telling Mauricio how I was slightly scared so the rest of the time he was making fun of me before every ride saying there were going to be really scary and that my stomach was going to drop. This ride was nothing actually but we also did Indiana Jones ride and I figured this would be similar. Boy did I not expect flipping upside down and having my stomach leaves me numerous times! I was screaming my head off. I also screamed by head off on Space Mountain but I was most impressed with this one. I think it is awesome because it is so dark and you have no idea where you are or even if you are upside down. That ride also has no slow climbing with that awful creaking noise. It shoots you up like you are actually in a space shuttle. I was very unimpressed with the Aerosmith Rollercoaster. I feel like it was trying to be like Space Mountain but just wasn’t as cool. It was really just flickering lights and loud music. And you could see the tracks because it wasn’t as dark which was super dumb.

I ate this Pastry shaped like Mickey and it ended up having chocolate inside. After being finished for quite some time I realized I had gotten chocolate all over my right sleeve and my left cuff and watch and even some on my jean. Basically I was a mess!

Next we went to Fantasy land for one of my favorite parts: The tea cups! They were def not as cool as the ones at Disney WOrld. The cups weren’t as pretty and were smaller but I guess Europeans in general drink out of smaller cups so they were the European version! They also had a maze for Alice in Wonderland that was neat and something they don’t have at the other parks.

After that we saw the parade which was fun and after seeing this I have decided that all the people employed here must be midgets. Seriously all the characters were so short! Piglet, Timon, White Rabbit, and a monkey that is Baloo’s friend were all only up to my chin! I don’t know where they find such an abundance of short people! At the end Santa came and they had toy soldier and reindeers dressed up and these costumes were awesome.

The last ride of the day ended up being my favorite: It was Crush’s Adventure from Finding Nemo. I was expecting it to be one of the easy rides more like Haunted Mansion that tells a story but it turned out to be both that and a roller coaster so I was blown away when my stomach dropped and I ended up screaming. It was also so different than anything I had ever been on. You had carts of four with two seats facing front and two facing back. So I started the ride facing front and at one point we spun and were going sideways and then ended up finish it up backwards. It was awesome! We also got to see Nemo and his friends and it looked like we were underwater cruising on the EAC.