We made a grand entrance into France this Columbus Day weekend! Team Haines took our first out of Germany trip- complete with trains, subways, shuttle buses, 4 chickens and the Grands:)
Friday morning started early- leaving the house before 6am for Ktown. We had a minor GPS glitch but found the train station and parking garage with ease. The chickens were dressed in mouse apparel but hadn't learned of our surprise destination. Arriving a few minutes before the train gave us time to explore and investigate- this was the first train ride for the chickens. We had a lesson in train safety and then a repeated lecture for those who weren't listening.
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| this was during the repeated lecture- train safety stinks! |
In less then 10 minutes we were rocking the rails and settled in our seats for the 2 1/2 hour trip. The girls did some coloring and school work to pass the time. Sam was entertained by Peter Pan (gotta love technology and iCloud).
I'm missing pictures of the next leg of our trip for a reason- little did we know that downtown Paris and a language barrier would leave us in a metro mess! Lost in translation we found our way on to a crowded subway bound for an unknown connection to yet another subway graffitied with spray paint. A good teachable moment for the chickens- who were completely shocked that some one would disrespect property in such a fashion- guess they forgot about doing the same thing a few short months ago to the bedroom door, and chair and floor-but never mind that! We arrived on the doorstep of Disneyland and the first Mickey sign was spotted by Annabelle-SURPRISE!!!!! We caught the shuttle to our hotel and upon arriving they found another surprise- Gigi and Grandpa were waiting for us in the lobby!
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| We're here! |
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| They carried our bags even the cupcake backpack:) |
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| Our room at the New Port Bay Beach Club |
It was a chilly and drizzly autumn day in Paris but a little rain wasn't slowing us down! We hit the park for some magic!
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| zip-a-dee-doo-dah zip-a-dee-a my oh my what a wonderful day! |
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| catching a quick snooze |
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| park entrance! |
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| We are Team Haines! |
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| the mouse decorated for Halloween |
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| happy to be here! |
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| walking right down the middle of main street |
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| pumpkin Goofy and Aurora's castle |
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| Swiss Family Robinson treehouse |
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| a little shivering going on |
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| they are all crazy about the tea cups! |
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| pumpkin Mickeys |
The afternoon passed quickly with pirate business, a real treehouse, a crazy wonderland maze, a very short carousel ride, a flight over neverland, tea parties, a flying elephant ride, and some villain visitors.
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| Dumbo ride for girls only |
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| who doesn't love a carousel?! |
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| Jafar and Iago |
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| the Queen of Hearts tried to cut Linley's head off!!!! |
We ended the day with dinner at our hotel and went to bed all warm and cozy in new pjs from Gigi:)
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