Best Western Hotel Ile De France Château-Thierry

... no land connecting to it at all (that is why it is an island, not a peninsula Mark).












Well, behind the paddle boat in that picture is the actual loading/unloading area for the ride. You board your train and then actually go under water to start your ascent on the island! At the end of the ride, you shoot back under water to come back up into the load station on the mainland. How cool is ...

Today marked our 8th Disney park which was Walt Disney Studios. What an awesome title for a park. It is similar in nature to Disney's Hollywood Studios (former MGM Studios). However, it is significantly smaller with far less attractions. It just opened in 2002 and still looks the part as everything is clean and pretty new. Even though it is small, it is themed very well.

First off, the entrance is done on a grand scale with Earful ...

**Disclaimer: If you are not a fan of Disney Parks you will be bored out of your mind reading the blogs for the next 3 days. You are better off skipping them**

Now is also a good time to mention the goal Harmony and I have of visiting all 11 Disney parks in our lifetime. We have been to six of them so far, 4 in Orlando and 2 in California. These two in Paris would bring us to 8. Then there are two more in Tokyo and one in Hong Kong. Most of this ...

So, let's start off with the only positive thing we can really say about Sunday. It was hard to say goodbye to London because it was an amazing city and Harmony and I liked it so much more than we thought we would. We really wish we had more time there and would definitely consider going back which is not something we thought we would say, especially since London was thrown on at the last minute in place of Iceland.

Well, unfortunately Mike woke up sick. His friend ...

... and process, how much patience one must have before tasting the final product!

I have to admit that I was a little impressed by Moet...but primarily due to all the glam of the family fortune. I'm sure the family heavily pressured its sons to continue the tradition...

So here's the rest of my pictures, varying from the tour, to a stroll in the park!

... silence...surely not as busy nor loud as Paris!

The dinner created a bit of a problem...

Apparently there was a misunderstanding regarding the dinner; the owner thought he'd be providing us with dinner, but we decided we'd cook our own or find a nearby restaurant. By the time this was all sorted out, we realized that we had only brought 1 kilo of pasta, 2 jars of asperagus ...

... to a lesser extent in the Netherlands.
This evening we are 100 kms down the road at Troyes. We are here 2 nights and we are already ebchanted with the Tudor style houses...we're sure that many of them nelong to the "crooked man"" as so many of them lean!!! Looking forward to exploring more tomorrow. No lift in the hotel and on the 2nd floor. No kettles provided in hotels so have been rationed for cups of tea!!!
So have a cuppa rather than a champagne for me!!

... the air. Carleen (sitting just in front of Emma) was completely oblivious though and we managed to get all the way to the first motorway sign with Mickey on it, before she had any idea where we were going. We arrived a little later than it should have taken though due to Richard's map reading abilities - one glance and he knows exactly where he is going - "after all he does have a degree in geography". Yeah Right! (Thanks for that Carleen.) By ...

... needed a beer again, so we had a rest and a drink before explooring Snow Whites magical mysterious forrest. Our carridge was called Bashfull. It was a good ride! Followed by Les Voyages de Pinocchio - a journey thought the treacherous path he took to being a real boy - and we saw the Blue Fair which got mummy excited. She has a thing for the Boue Fairy after the film AI or something! Time to eat underground in the carribean seafood place - which was good! It ...

... And My goodness - good is not the word! Awsome!! The train goes under the lake which has a huge paddel steamer floating around on it and over to an island of rocks a bit like the Grand Canyon. The noise is rickety and rackety and loud and full of our screams as it bumps, twists, turns, plunges and climbs! there are woolfs and possoms, donkeys and a goat eating someones laundy by the old mine shaft! At one point you are climbing through a tunnel and you hear ...