Paris Day 7 - Disneyland again (3rd and final visit)

Last full day of our holiday.  Where did all the time go???

Anyway, only item in the itinerary today - Disneyland. Yay! 

Standard routine of duck feeding in the morning :-)  

Oh, how I miss this! 

Backtrack a bit. This is another standard routine

Holiday or not...there is always laundry to do!  ;-)

Headed straight to Walt Disney Studios.

Our Annual Passes

From the official Disney website, tic prices are Euro 145 (Adults) and 130 (Kids) for 2 day 2 park tickets- Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios. Our Annual Pass costs us Euro 139 each for unlimited entries to both parks. It's the cheapest annual pass so there are a lot of restrictions - no weekend entry, no peak season entry etc but it worked well for us. Not keen to entry Disneyland during peak time anyway! 

We went 3 times so happy to get our moneys worth. hehe.  Could have been 4 times but we were too jet lagged and slept the afternoon away on our first day. 

First ride of the day - 4D Ratatouille ride

One of our favourite rides 

Girls wanted another photo op with a Disney character.  We queued for Buzz Lightyear. Super long q.  While waiting, hubby when for one of those single rider rides.

Buzz Lightyear

Lazy... lazy.... instead of signing, Buzz stamped on their autograph book instead.  Maybe the costume made it hard to sign. (or mebbe "outer space" characters don't sign. haha)

To Infinity and Beyond! 

With a much bigger Buzz

Spotted some Scream Monitors

S-C-R-E-A-M !!!!! 

At one of the Monster Inc doors 

Went for a show - Mickey and the Magician 

This was good too! 

Spotted Christmas Goofy! 

Queue was surprisingly short. 

Big hug from Goofy 

Family photo with Goofy

After Goofy, we spent almost one full hour at the gift shop.  Aiyo! Told girls they could choose ONE toy each.  Elyssa was incredibly finicky!  She wanted the perfect toy and took forever...
Her final choice was a white Marie cat soft toy. Out of the zillions of stuff in the shop, both girls ended up with the same toy.

Went back to Disneyland Park 
Of the 2 parks, I prefer Walt Disney Studios.  Disneyland Park is nice but it's quite similar to HK Disneyland

Mickey's face  :-) 

And what was the first Character we saw upon entering Disneyland Park - Marie!!!  Girls squealed in excitement.  Hubby gave his "queue to take photo again??" look.  hahahah.  3 against 1.  No choice darling.

Big hug from Marie! 

Awww.... this Marie waw super charming!

She playfully kidnapped their Marie soft toys and wanted to hang them on the Christmas tree. 

Family photo with 3 Maries! 

Random photo with a cannon

BBQ Pork Ribs and Fries for lunch.  Yumz! 

We got a nice spot near the stage

Mickey Puppet Show performance during lunch 

Took a couple more rides in between. Then surprisingly stumbled upon 3 characters at a corner with hardly any queue. Yippee yay.  Got 3 character signatures in about 30 mins!!

Timon, Goofy and Baloo 

Before we knew it, it was almost park closing time. 3 full days in Paris Disneyland (Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios) but we did not even cover everything!  We did one final round of souvenier shopping before leaving.  

I got my Mickey!!

Yup, not for the girls but for me. There is a kid in all of us rite?? hehe

Good night day 7! 

Paris Day 6 - Disneyland again!

Good Morning Day 6!  We are going to Disneyland again today. 

Breakfast first 

Loves it when he steps into the kitchen!

Only happens during holidays.  hehe

Just love this view from my room  

So beautiful! 

Duck and Swan feeding while waiting for the shuttle bus to Disneyland

Uhm.... didn't expect the swans to COME OUT from the lake. We got scared! 

Ok, found a better feeding spot

Swans couldn't climb up to the platform area ;-) 

Headed to Walt Disney Studios

There are 2 parks in Disneyland Paris - Disneyland Park and Walk Disney Studios Park.  

Our first stop was some studio animation thing. Not so interesting actually.  But when the show ended, we walked out and found our first character in Disneyland - Mickey!

Getting a hug from Mickey 

The queue wasn't so long so we thought it would be quite fast.  Surprised it took almost one hour! Unlike Hong Kong Disneyland where it's more like "snap photo, next.. snap photo, next..." the characters spend a little bit more time with each person. And it's a norm for autograph signing. Hubby went to buy an autograph book while we were in the queue. 

Big Hug! 

Mickey's signature :-) 

We went on a couple more rides. Then spotted another character.... Pluto!

Pluto signing the girl's autograph book 

Why is Erin looking so sad?  Cos she saw Pluto playfully snatch the hat of a little girl before putting on his own head. She wanted Pluto to take her hat too but was too shy to ask. 

So I asked Erin : "You want Pluto to wear your hat?"  Pluto heard and happily obliged! He knelt down so Erin could place the hat herself.

 Loaning her hat to Pluto

Just look at that smile of hers!!!  She was sooo happy! 

Big Hug from Pluto

And just like that....... Pluto became one of her favourite characters! 

I love it how an extra few minutes spent made a moment truly MAGICAL for a little girl. 

Family photo with Pluto
Such a cheeky Pluto!!! :-)

High 5 with Pluto

Erin was grinning and happily skipping after meeting Pluto! 

With Rex the Dinosaur from Toy Story

Toy Soldier from Toy Story

Toy Soldier Parachute Ride 

Salute! 

Ready to fly.  Haha 

Caught one of the Christmas Shows 

Another family photo 

Mickey Playhouse

One of our favourite shows! Some 4D effects too.  Like "wind" and "leaves" streaming down during the segment where audience was asked to blow to help bring down Pooh's kite from the tree.  Also colourful streamers at the end. 

Among the rides we went for that day was a roller coaster ride.  What did I learn?  Confirm I hate roller coaster rides!!!  Why oh why should I subject myself to fear like that?????? 

Christmas Show at Walt Disney Studios

OMG... it was fantastic!!  Stage show accompanied with amazing laser lights at the backdrop and fireworks at the end. Hands down the BEST show of our 3 day Disneyland adventure. 

I can just close my eyes now and imagine myself there again ... the cold air, the magical feeling, the Christmassy happiness and also pure gratitude of being able to go for a holiday like this. The so happy until there were tears in the eyes type of happy.  

After the show, we walked over to Disneyland Park to catch the fireworks finale show at Sleeping Beauty castle. 

Night Scene at the Disneyland Park entrance 

Fireworks Display at Disneyland Park

Such a beautiful magical day!  We took the hotel shuttle back, had a simple late dinner and then Zzzzzz..

--End of Day 6 --