Day 2 - Well Rested & Raring To Go!

Day 2 of our Disneyland Paris adventure began rather early. We wanted to make sure that we were able to spend as much time as possible in the main park as this was going to be our only full day in Disneyland.

 As soon as we arrived at the gates, all thoughts of tiredness evaporated! Fiona and Orla were completely taken in by the Halloween decorations, which made the park look even more magical than usual! Main Street station was covered with Mickey shaped pumpkin heads, lonesome ghost families for you to pose and have pictures with and a sea of autumnal coloured flowers and leaves. As soon as we got through the station, we were greeted by a band playing some Disney favourites but with a spooky twist. I adored this and is something I’ve never seen in Paris.

We continued down Main Street and were ushered to one side as the Halloween Mickey Parade was on its way! This was the perfect way for Fiona and Orla to enter the park and their first experience of a Disney Parade! This was also the first time the girls had seen any characters up close and cemented that they had to meet some of them while they were there. Warning – If you are lucky enough to go to Paris this season, be aware that you will be singing the Parade music ALL DAY! It’s very catchy and all three of us found ourselves humming it at various points of the trip.

We started in Fantasyland and headed straight for Peter Pans Flight. This is pretty much my favourite Disney ride. I know it’s for kids but it is so pretty! You get in to a pirate ship that flys through scenes from the film. My favourite part is where you fly over London and then Neverland (make sure you look down!)  We moved straight on to Alice’s Labyrinth (Orla’s second favourite Disney film after Peter Pan). We spent ages getting lost in the maze, painting roses red and generally losing our heads! We then moved straight on the Mad Hatters tea cups, carousel and the Pinocchio ride! After seeing everything we could there we moved over to Adventureland to explore the caves and see what the Pirates were up to. We went on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, which I’d somehow completely forgotten. (Totally surprised that it’s a water drop ride!) It’s a lovely setting when you pass diners at the Blue Lagoon restaurant on the boat though, so well worth doing if you get the chance.

We made our way across the rickety bridge and had jelly legs by the time we made it out of the other side! It was from here that Orla spotted Fontierland in the distance. This was made up to look very Halloween like. We hot footed it over towards Phantom Manor because another of Orla’s favourite characters was out and about. Jack Skellinton was haunting over behind Big Thunder Mountain. We got in line and met our first Character of the trip. He was scarily like Jack in the film and we had a long chat with him about what was terrifying us most in the park. It was actually this meeting that inspired our Halloween Sally make up tutorial that will be on YouTube soon!

After we’d done all of the rides in Fontierland, we headed on over to Discoveryland to shoot Zurg and save the planet on the Buzz Lightyear ride! We went round to see if we could eat at the Pizza Planet restaurant.....Orla has literally never been so excited! It didn't even bother her that it was closed! Fiona and Orla very bravely went on Space Mountain….I stayed behind to hold the bags, obviously!

No sooner had they landed back on earth was it Parade time! Since it had been raining heavily beforehand, we weren’t sure if the parade was going to happen. We hung around anxiously hoping that it would, thankfully the familiar music started and Fiona and Orla got to experience their first full Disney Parade!

We’d packed a lot in to the day already and decided to grab dinner in the park before Dreams started at 8pm.  To say we were excited about Dreams is possibly the understatement of the century! It’s fair to say that no one does fireworks quite like Disney. The projections and storytelling on the castle were just amazing and unlike anything we’d ever seen before. My personal favourite part was the Rapunzel and Flynn part of the show. It was very magical….

After all of that excitement we headed back in the rain to a very warm and cosy room, ready to do it all again the next day!

 Keep your eyes peeled for our final instalment of our Disneyland Paris blog in the next few days! 

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