[Ghoulish Delight]

Hey, JUST because we pushed those two kids onto the track everyone thinks this is OUR fault. The French are so damned touchy.

Actually, we were so tuned out that we had no idea about this until we got back.

We DID have a good time. A full trip report and photos are forthcoming. My executive summary is as follows:

Disneyland Paris is amazing. Took a bit to get over the "bizarro Disneyland" feeling, and the layout is such that navigating the park is mildly annoying, but it's spectacular. Space Mountain:Mission 2 is awesome, hopefully a lot of the effects will make an appearance in Rockit Mountain here. However, we were unimpressed with Discoveryland as a whole. Uncohesive, underthemed, uninspired colors. Bleh. Pirates and Phantom Manor or something to behold. And their take on Main Street (same period, but big city main street rather than small town) is impressive. The Halloween festivities were a lot of fun, and done in an unobtrusive manner such that we could look past them when we wanted to.

Paris itself was equally amazing. This was really like taking 2 vacations in one. And we wasted no time. In 3+ days we saw 5 museums, took a 4 hour Segway tour, had many a delicious meal, attempted to experience the nightlife (details in the full report), saw dead people, witnessed a mass rollerblade exodus, toured the Metro system extensively, climbed the Arc de Triomph, got to the second deck of the Eifel Tower (too long of a wait to get to the top), and did a Mouse Adventure's worth of walking daily. We couldn't have had a better hotel, literally around the corner from the Louvre, no more than 2 Metro stops away from nearly everything. It was a fabulous experience.

There will be more detail than you'll ever need to know once we compile the full report and pics.