Disneyland... with 3 layers, hat, scarf, gloves...

One of the reasons Mom was keen on going to Paris was to have the opportunity to go to Disneyland. Since we were able to see so much during the first day and a half we were in Paris, we decided that we would spend Monday at Disney. I must say though, there just seemed something bizarre about getting dressed for a day at a Disney park by putting on several layers, my coat, scarf, gloves, hat, etc. I don't think it got much above freezing the whole day, but it did mean that the park was relatively uncrowded (except that we found out later that the time we were there was the mid-term break for Paris schools, so it was more crowded than it would have been a week before or after). There are actually two parks, and we had read that if you bought a ticket for the Studios park, you could go into the actual Disneyland park at 1730. Luckily though, the girl at the ticket window said that we could get a park-hopper ticket to allow entry to both parks for only 9 Euro more a person. I say luckily, because there was only 1 ride open in the Studios park that morning, and it would have been the biggest waste to have spent all day there. So, we saw a show and rode the Aerosmith rollercoaster before heading over to the Disneyland park itself. We waited longer in the line to ride Peter Pan's flight than we did to ride Pirates of the Caribbean, but we didn't have very long waits for most rides.
When Mom had come to visit me in California last summer and we went to Disneyland in California, we had had lunch at the Blue Bayou restaurant in the park that overlooks part of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, so I decided that we should do lunch at the Blue Lagoon restaurant at Disney Paris to continue the tradition. Great food, but I think we were both waddling around the park the rest of the day having eaten so much. We got on just about everything that was open, and I suppose for that I must be grateful to the cold weather, because we would probably only have gotten on a fraction of the rides during the summer. For dinner, we decided to be a bit goofy and go and see the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and so our biggest dinner in Paris was Chili, Cornbread (some of the best I've ever had), Barbeque, and Apple Cobbler, not very epicurean I'm sure, but the food was great, we got to hollar and yell like a couple of little kids, and generally had a great time, even though our cowboys didn't win the competition.
I have to say, I wasn't especially thrilled with the idea of going to Disneyland, thinking that I'd rather see all the cultural stuff, but Mom hit the nail on the head when she said that this made it seem more like a real vacation, because it was just a day to relax and have a good time. So now, at some point, I have to try and get to Tokyo Disney, and then I'll be able to say that I've been to all the Disney parks, but I don't know that that's going to happen any time soon.