Day Six: Paris

This morning we awoke and went downstairs to partake of the Marriott Buffet Breakfast (free because Chadd is special, my quote yesterday was "Why don't you pull your pants down so they can kiss your ass a little more." It's revolting) After breakfast we went back to the room, packed our bags and we were off to Disneyland! We took the train to Disneyland, and got there about Noon. Since we were out so late the night before, we didn't feel like getting up really early. The place was EMPTY, there were no lines at all for any ride, and the weather was just cool enough so that it was enjoyable, but you didn't need a sweater. We headed first for "Discoveryland" (aka: Tomorrowland). Of course, we headed immediately for Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast! I would like to mention that although we were both ranked "Pilote Interplanetaire" in the end, I had won! Space Mountain: Mission 2 was closed, so we went over and rode Star Tours, "Que la Force solt avec vous!" In Fantasyland we rode "It's a Small World" and it was the best one ever! They kind of updated it, it was super cool. We also went through "Alice's Curious Labyrinth" which was a hedge maze. We walked by "Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains" but didn't know what it was until we saw the pictures....ah, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. One thing that was really neat is that under Sleeping Beauty's castle is "La Taniere du Dragon", they have a dark chamber and a big dragon lives under the castle! Over in Adventureland we went on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril roller coaster. It had the smallest, tightest 360 loop ever, and it was pretty cool! After that we rode Pirates of the Caribbean, which wasn't much different than Orlando's. In Frontierland, everything was decorated for Halloween, and they had these "pumpkin men" all over. We went on Phantom Manor (The Haunted Mansion), Big Thunder Mountain and walked around Woody's Roundup Village, which was really cute. EuroDisney has two parks: Disneyland and Walt Disney Studios. The price isn't that much more to do both parks in one day, so we bought the combo ticket. The parks closed at 7 pm and we had to catch our bus to the airport at 7:05, so we didn't have much time to do the Studios. But, first of all it was small, and second they didn't have anything there that isn't in WDW, except Crush's Coaster. Named after the turtle in Finding Nemo the description read: Plunge through the East Australian Current aboard a spinning turtle shell. It was basically a roller coaster, but you are in a single car, and it spins 360 degrees while on the track! It was soooooo fun! They need to build one of those in WDW! That was the longest line we stood in all day by far, at 15 minutes. We had a few minutes left, so we also rode Aerosmith's Rock 'n' Roller Coaster. It was 6:30 and we still had to go to luggage check to collect our luggage so we decided to leave. We got to our bus stop a few minutes early and hung out until the airport shuttle arrived to take us to the airport. Our plan was to take the shuttle to the airport, which should take about 45 minutes, that would give us just under 2 hours at the airport to check in and get some dinner. The shuttle took a little longer than expected, but we got there and went inside and checked the boards for our flight. British Airways flight 329/ to London Heathrow/ Terminal B......CANCELLED. What?!?!??!?!?! Okay, let's get to Terminal B, we are at Terminal F. Sign above us "Terminal B this way, walking time 10-15 minutes". Holy crap. We arrive at Terminal B and someone had definitely hit the chaos button. British Airways has an agent in front of the gate basically telling us that the radar at London Heathrow went out and no planes are going in or getting out this evening. All the flights for tomorrow morning are booked and so is the train. Shit. We are advised to get in the "queue" and get accomodations for this evening and hope to get booked on a flight for tomorrow afternoon. Great. First, there goes our plans for tomorrow, second, we are going to have to stay in some two bit roach motel, three, I have no clean underwear. There were already about 45-50 people in line, so we took a place and started trying to figure this thing out. As soon as we hit the line, a British Airways agent was there with a little hand cart handing out cold Pepsi, Sprite and water. We took a Pepsi each, then he gave me a water. He came back by again a few minutes later handing out chips to the people in line. By this time we had out our laptops, we were on the airports Wi-Fi, and we were booking train tickets for tomorrow. They were fully refundable, and we wanted to be sure we had at least one option! We were in line for about 10-15 minutes when the Pepsi/chip man came back an asked us if we had a connection or if Heathrow was our final destination. We told him it was our final destination. "Are you checking any bags?" We told him "no." He says "Come with me, we have two seats for you." Keep in mind there are still about 40 people in front of us, at least. Who cares, off we go! He fast tracks us through passport control, and sends us to a check in line. The bottom line was the radar in London was back up. There was a 7 pm flight that was now over 2 hours late, some of the passengers had been given hotels for the night, so they were already gone, and now the flight was back on. When the agent was checking us in, we had been put on the "standby list" for the flight, well she couldn't get us off the standby list without upgrading us. So now, not only were we on the flight, we were in First Class!! WTF is this, The Twilight Zone? And why did the Pepsi/chip man choose us? I honestly think it's because we were the only ones that thanked him for the cold beverages and didn't accost him for information he didn't have. So now we are all checked in, we've gone through security, and we are getting on our flight. We were originally scheduled to take off at 9:55 pm, we took of at 10:15, so after all this we are only delayed by 20 minutes! However, we never did get dinner. No worries, even though it's only a 40 minute flight, they serve us food in First Class! It wasn't alot, just some smoked salmon, some bread, a little dessert truffle, but just enough to hold us over until tomorrow. By the time we trained and tubed it back to the hotel it was 12:15 am and time for bed.