Sunday, September 28, 2014

Day 8 - Paris (Disneyland)

This was the Disneyland day and the kids and I had been looking forward excitedly to it. I love theme parks like the kids and think that holidays are incomplete without theme parks. Haha.

We had to wake up super early so that we will be at Disneyland at 10 am when the doors opened but none of the kids mind waking up early.

Everybody was so excited and were already in the train when ah yee jokingly asked if I brought the entrance tickets. To our horror, I really did left the tickets at home. I must have had been a free rider for too long and presumed that ah yee would prepare everything, including the tickets. Shame on me. 

The train tickets were too expensive and it didn't make sense for all of us to turn back. Ah yee still had the tickets in her email and the plan was to go to Disneyland and try to plead with the officer to help us to print the tickets. Apparently, the Frenchs aren't the nicest and there was a high possibility that they wouldn't do so for us. Boo. Fortunately we met a nice and helpful staff and we were on our way to adventure. Muahaha. 


We bought a 1 day ticket for 2 parks. Lil Shauna had been bugging me to let her wear her Frozen dress and was so eager to show off. She started posing with everything in sight.




The DL is so much bigger than the one in HKG. They do not have double buggy so we rented a single one but for 2 pax use at time and it was sheer labour work.

Some of the rides are similar to the one in HKG but there are definitely many more rides. 


Lil Shauna and my personal favourite has to be the thrilling Nemo ride. It is somewhat like the space mountain ride - a roller coaster in the dark. Each car can seat 4 and the car rotates freely 360 degrees while on the moving on the track. Woohoo! Lil Isaac isnt tall enough for the ride and he went on the flying carpet with Daddy Lim while the rest of us screamed our lungs out on the thrilling ride. I would have gone for a few more times if not for the 30 mins q.

We also tried the new ratatouille ride that was just opened last month and it has a long q. I think we were in the q for at least 45 mins. The ride wasn't ready that worth the wait. It was like a milder version of the transformer with the 4D effect. The 3D effect was great but the moving animation at close range made me dizzy and I had to close my eyes for most of the ride. I didn't quite know what really happened. Lol. 

We caught the parade too.




We didn't catch the fire works and headed back at almost 8pm after dinner and buying gifts in Disneyland. 

The kids slept very early that night given the long day. The adults had supper - the food at Disneyland was super expensive and we were still hungry. Lol. After supper, it was a heartache struggling to retrieve our air ticket. The flight itinerary was in the bag that was stolen and I couldnt retrieve my email with the booking reference. We tried to call the hotline, which cost us 30 cents per minute and I was on the phone for 10 mins before the lousy customer service officer told me that he couldn't help. He told us to bring the passports to the airport to "try". In other words, there was no guarantee, which made me worried that we have to pay for new tickets at the airport. Boo.

I whatsapped auntie S and auntie H to help call the lufthansa hot line in Singapore and had plans for Daddy Lim and Uncle C to head to the Paris airport to "try". Shoo bad luck.

Mummy Lim

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