Auberge De La Source Chateaux & Hotels De France Saint-Ouen-sur-Morin

... It was very relaxing (except for the smoke everywhere, more on that later). Harmony got a chance to see Cinderella too!












Here is a nice shot of Harmony under one of the turrets.











On Monday we passed right by this but today Mike noticed what this little snack shack really was. It is The Old Mill! It looks just like it too! Most of you will ...

... movie just for Brenda to freak her out when she hears Crush speaking French:














This park has a surprisingly excellent show called Animagique. We had no idea what this was. It turned out to have live actors in a Mickey and Donald costume opening up the story. Strangely enough, Mickey spoke in French and Donald spoke in English. Let us tell you one thing, hearing Mickey speak French ...

... lunch. We had a Mickey double cheeseburger shaped like Mickey:













and a beignet for dessert also shaped like Mickey:













What was really cool about this building is it had a massive dirigible outside but closer inspection showed it was a Hyperion Dirigeable which is a nod to Walt and Roy's original animation studio on Hyperion Drive. Bet you didn ...

... back upstairs to get in line to exchange our remaining pounds back for Euros. A young punk quickly joins the line behind us so we did as we were trained. We faced each other so he wasn't facing our backs and we could keep an eye on him and anyone in front of us. At this point, we already had everything valuable locked in our large bags with pad locks (they almost never snatch large bags because they are too cumbersome). We were in line for about 10 minutes and this kid ...

... Kawagoe 22 Mardi Mont Takao 23 Mercredi Mitaka 24 Jeudi Kamakura 25 Vendredi Yokohama 26 Samedi Roppongi feux d'artifice 27 Dimanche Shinagawa 28 Lundi Tsukiji Tsukichima 29 Mardi Odaiba 30 Mercredi Nippori Hongo

... there could be worse places to be stuck, but after waiting 10 days (on what should have been a 1 or 2 day process) my budget was wearing perilously thin in the romantic city of lights. By this time, I had missed one purchased flight to India and Simon had skipped two scheduled flights to London. Maxine and family were overwhelmingly generous in letting us stay at their house to wait out the visa while they enjoyed a ski vacation ...

... down - turning up just before we crashed to the ground! The piolt managed to dodge gantrys and pipes, up and down, left and right and then we were outin space with nothing but stars. We went into hyperdrive and were thrust into the backs of our seats with great force as the stars streaked passed us! Then we were in an asteriod field and nearly smashed into a huge crystaline rock but the piolt found a passage adn crashed us thorugh it - somhow not killing us!! When we got ...

... sat in a Booth and our waiter word roler skates! How cool is that?! We ate a very healthy portion of Burger and Chips, well, Harriet had Chicken Nuggets, daddy had the hugest quadruple decker burger that if he managed to eat the lot he got a free milk shake (He did and chose chocolate which was scrummy!)! Mummy had a chilli burger and she put half a bottle of tobasco on it and said it was nice but still not hot!! We had waffels with chocolate sauce on for ...

A quick note on frustrating French key board. They don,t use the qwerty key board so things are not in their regular place. We have seen Juno beach, Vimy Ridge, the Sommes and made a detour that you will have to read about later when I have time to do it justice...start thinking and sending guesses as to where we went and why. We arrived in Paris this morning and have been to the eiffel tower (too windy to go ...

... t underst*nd the French word for must*rd when I *sked for mout*rde, we drove to Brussels *nd on to Luxembourg where we holed up for the night. Just *fter touring downtown where orn*te, thin buildings loomed our *ur* thre*tening to crush us, we stopped *t * red light. It turned green *nd Lee rem*ined p*rked in the l*ne of tr*ffic. I soon bec*me mesmerized by the lun*tic in the c*r behind us, sh*king her fist out the window *nd scre*ming prof*nities *t us. "Lee, don't you ...