Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Disney Paris!

We had the pleasure of meeting up with some of our good friends at Disney Paris over President's day weekend.  We love this family and have followed each other from Texas to California to Europe...I am secretly hoping that we are close to each other when we all move again.  That would be hilarious if we were...who knows, anything can happen!
We love Disney, and have been to the California parks, the Florida parks and now we can cross off Europe.  I think we just have Japan (and we heard Hong kong has one now too?) left.  Don't know if we will ever make it to Aisa...but I won't say Never.
 Waiting in the first line of the day.  That's a lot of kids, and that's not even all of them!
 I love it, because almost everyone matches up with someone...so everyone has a friend.

 My boys have to share a friend...but that's ok, then need to get good at sharing!
Just hanging around waiting for the big kids to get done with their ride!
 Crash cars!
 Where too next Hunter?
 We had a momentary break in the clouds.
It was perfect, right at sunset!
 Disney at night is my favorite. 
There is so much ambience with the music and lighting!
 The two families that went.
Between us we had 11 kids.  It was super fun!!
 The boys love Buzz!  They were so excited about this statue!

 Anya conquered the Tower of Terror ride this time.  She was too cautious in California, so we excited to have another shot here in Paris.  She said that having her friend there too helped a lot, especially because her friend LOVES the ride!

What are they all huddled around?
 Looks like we stumbled upon a Dragon's lair under the castle!

 Strolling through Alice's curious labyrinth.
 My all time favorite Disney Character...
Mr. Chessire himself!

 food shaped like Mickey Mouse always tastes better!

 Whirling on the tea cups!  We got up early and went to Fantasyland during the hotel magic hours.  There was no one there!  We rode all the rides we wanted to in Fantasyland...you know the ones, the real short ones that always have a 30 to 60 minute wait for a 20 second ride.   Peter Pan, Dumbo, Tea cups...etc. Anyway, there were no lines that morning...everyone stayed in bed I guess...but we benefited!  Matt and Anya even went over and caught another ride on Space Mountain mission 2.  I think she went on it a total of 6 times...which is impressive for a girl who didn't like roller coasters a couple of years ago!

 Dumbo!



 Hunter was so sad he couldn't pull out the sword!  He really wanted a sword!
Not as much as his brother, who took off one afternoon and shoplifted one to head back to us.  Totally freaked us out!  He had to return the sword.

 We saw a car stunt show which featured Lightening McQueen.
The boys really liked it, and it gave us a much needed break to rest our weary feet!

 We capped off our Disney weekend by doing the one last thing we wanted to conquer while in Paris...
The Eiffel Tower!
We made it to the top this time!!
 Jack found a soccer match to watch.
That kid can find some kind of sports game to watch wherever we go!
 Still watching the Soccer...they could have stayed there all day if we had let them!

 Pouty face...time to go.

It was a perfect end to a fabulous weekend!
 Eating some delicious french snacks after conquering Eiffel...pastry's, macaroons and crepes
Yum!


One last shot outside our hotel before we head for home!
We stayed at Disney's hotel Cheyenne, and laughed when we saw the wagon out front.
We don't bank with Wells Fargo...but it was fun to see the name all they way in europe anyway!
Thanks Disney and Paris, for a wonderful weekend!!

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