Ernie Does Euro Disney

We had a small Disneyland Paris appetizer yesterday and now was the time for the main course.

The setup here is similar to the original California Disneyland where there's two parks whose entrances are very close to one another.

We chose to hit Walt Disney Studios Park first. It was heavily under construction.

It was so under construction that I felt a little cheated. Should they be charging full price for this? Not only was it ugly but it blocked off accessibility from the parts that were still open. I recall it being a very long walk to get to a restroom in one instance, for example.

Big Ern got to ride Slinky Dog Zigzag Spin.

I really like Bistrot Chez Rémy and it accompanying ride Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy. They're so French, they're so well done, and the food is legitimately good.

Riders use 3D glasses but since our visit that part of the experience has been removed. Lame!

Tower of Terror is a classic and I dislike the fact that some of the parks are turning theirs into some Marvel related nonsense.

There's a fun little sort of hidden section devoted to the Statue of Liberty. Only at the Paris resort!

It's a Small World

I booked us dinner at the Agrabah Café buffet.

The place is fun because it wasn't even built to be a restaurant. It was originally more of an actual bazaar with shops and stuff, and oddly opened a year before the Aladdin movie came out. So it was just sort of a generic Arabian Nights sort of place.

The food was sort of meh in my memory, which I think we knew going in. The buffet we did yesterday was so great that this place didn't have much chance of impressing us, though.

It was fun. Whatever.

Phantom Manor is cool because it's unique to the Paris resort.

Ernie was having fun but I could tell he yearned to return to the salt mines of Romania.

Another unique Parisian attraction is Les Mystères du Nautilus. It's a walkthrough Jules Verne-inspired attraction where you can explore the interior of Captain Nemo's submarine.

I got a little emotional when we got back to the hotel. I realized how much quality time I’d gotten with Ernie on this trip and it was now coming to an end. It’ll be kind of weird and sad to only see him a few hours a day now after we were in the trenches together nonstop for the last few weeks.