Morte la bête, mort le venin.

This Sleeping Beauty's castle was actually inspired by a real castle in France!

The main focus of our trip to Paris was in fact Disneyland. I know that its not the proper, cultural, adult thing to visit when you're in Paris, one of the most amazing and quintessential cities in the world, but as soon as Brianna and I walked through the Disney gates, everything was perfect! If the entire trip to Ireland hadn't been worth it already, it would have been made worth it in the moment when we saw Sleeping Beauty's Castle. So anyways. Disneyland Paris is very similar to Disneyland in CA. There are two parks, one magic kingdom-type-park, and one specifically catering to Hollywood/movie-based rides. They had a Thunder Mountain and a Tower of Terror that were pretty similar to their Anaheim counterparts, but most of the other rides were quite different! The Indiana Jones ride was a roller-coaster, the Pirates of the Caribbean was reformatted (and all the pirates yelled at each other in French), and the Space Mountain had a modified track and was called Mission 2. In the Walt Disney Studios park there was also a "Crush's Coaster" based on the turtle from Finding Nemo! This one was more similar to Mr. Six's Pandemonium or Tony Hawks roller-coaster from the Six Flags franchises.

Disney was all decorated for Halloween!

This was a cove near Pirates

Pirates was a lot of fun. Brianna actually judges it as better than the one in Anaheim. It had a few different scenes and you actually went up into the second story of the building instead of the basement. However, this Pirates didn't have a skull saying "Dead men tell no tales" in the ride at all! Other than that, the ride was a lot of fun! It was especially fun to try to translate what the animatrons were saying to each other.

Space Mountain Mission 2

 Mission 2 was actually quite different from #1! They started out by shooting you from the bottom of this tube into the other building, where you went upside-down! Multiple times! Paris definitely had more intense roller-coasters, probably because the Paris park opened more recently. They're celebrating their 20th birthday! Just like me :)

C'était tres chouette! Au revoir!

P.S. "morte la bête, mort le venin" literally means "dead the beast, dead the poison" but it's the French equivalent of "Dead men tell no tales" :D