Disneyland Paris - Day 1

The government pays for our airfare to go home twice in the time we're here in Moscow.  Since we'd just been home to have Autumn and the memories of getting over jet lag were still fresh we opted to go to Disneyland Paris with a stop over in London to visit Levin's brother on our way home.  

 It just so happens that this is the 20th anniversary of Disneyland Paris (formerly known as Euro Disney).  It was all decorated for Christmas and had Christmas music was playing.  It was wonderful!  We arrived on Tuesday and were able to go in the park that afternoon.  This is us on arrival all excited with the magic to await us.  We were pretty proud of our triple stroller.  When Oliver was born I knew I needed a double stroller since Leah still needed one.  After tons of research I settled on this one.  Levin has not loved it, but two and a half years later this stroller finally redeemed itself!  It is a sit and stand so we can take off the back seat so a child can stand or sit on a bench seat.  With two kids there wasn't much benefit, but with THREE kids we had Oliver sit on the bench and Leah stood up on the "stand" part.  It worked beautifully, especially since there aren't really any hills.  It might have been difficult to push that much weight up a hill.  Our only disappointment with it is that not a single person commented on our ability to get all aboard the baby train.  The first day Leah was usually too excited to ride and would run.  Three falls later she decided to ride.  This way we didn't lose her in the crowds either.

 With goofy dressed as Santa.

  Oliver was only willing if I carried him up.  He and Leah have opposing views on strangers.

On the tea cups - the first of many times we rode this.

And on the carousel.  We have short attention spans and this took a very long time to get going so we didn't ride it as often as the rest. 

Meeting Mickey - Oliver loves Micky by the way.

 Heading home after a fun afternoon.  We'd gotten up super early and it was late Moscow time so we didn't finish the day with the parade, etc. but went home to bed.