Sunday, January 28, 2007

Paris - city of lights, love......and DISNEYLAND!!!

We went to Paris last week for 4 days. It was awesome. Cold. So cold my bum was numb but still amazing. We arrived on Monday at about 11am and as soon as we walked off the platform we realised that maybe... just maybe we should have scrubbed up a little more on our french. Unfortunately all I knew how to say was merci.


Zane and I on the top of Notre Dame.

After about 30 mins of navigating our way around the metro system in a strange language we found our hotel room. It was about 1 km away from the Eiffel tower - just over the bridge, and it was a reasonably nice day so we made the trip up to the top to take some pictures and work out where everything was.
The Eiffel tower
a pretty view from the top at Napoleon's Arc

Yah Disneyland!!!!
On Tuesday we made the trip out to EuroDisney which was about 40 mins on the metro just outside of Paris. Zane mentioned that we may have needed a different train ticket since it was quite a long way out but I assured him that we would be sweet.
We got off at Disney train station walked up to the gates and were denied entry. Only to find out that we did in fact have the wrong tickets and had to go all the way back into Paris to purchase the correct fare. Oops miss know-it-all michelle was wrong again :P. After a couple of hours we made it through the gates. It was FANTASTIC!!!! We were planning to go for only the one day but because it rocked so much -(even if it was 1 degrees!) we went back for a second day. Went on Space Mountain about 5 times - very cool. Waiting times were incredible. Most were about 5 mins and there were no crowds at all.
Notre Dame
Our last day in paris we went to the Louvre, Notre Dame and the arc de triomphe- all amazing and definitely not over-rated.... except the Mona Lisa.

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