We were up this morning before 07:00 because we wanted to leave the hotel promptly at 07:30 to be at the gate before 08:00. We didn’t get out of the room until 07:50. Luckily the park didn’t open until 08:30 and we were about 10th in line as people were lined up miles behind us for the early access hours. Wahoo! We call that a happy accident. They let us into the park at 08:15 and when we got to the second gate we were 1st in our lane to scan tickets!
They quietly opened the scanners 10 minutes early. I saw the scanner turn blue and quietly scanned my card. Ari followed suit. We were actually the first ones in the park and down Main Street. Tavis got excited and started running to take photos of this moment. We even took an selfie infront of the castle. Then we took a photo of the crowd coming down the street toward us and we ran to Big Thunder Mountain. We were the first ones in line! We did it twice before going to Space Mountain. The first hour today we walked straight on to each ride. We then went to the other park and went on the RC Racer which was another 5 minutes. From there we went to Crush which was an hour lineup. We decided to go as singles and it was less than a 10 minute wait. We did the Tower of Terror again and decided to separate.
At 10:45, Tavis and I went back to the hotel. We had a 20 minute siesta and then took all our bags to the complementary baggage storage at the hotel. It is so nice to only have to carry around 10 pieces of paper instead of 10 pieces of luggage! We checked out and met the kids at the Lego store at 12:30. Then we ate lunch in Disney Village before returning to the parks for the rest of the day.
We went on several rides and enjoyed our second day at Disney. By 19:30, we had gone on the Tower of Terror about 10 times (along with some other rides) and decided to try the Singles line on Crush one last time before leaving the park. We returned to the hotel around 20:15 to retrieve our bags. Then Tavis called an Uber van and within 5 minutes, we were in a van that took us right to the front gate of our cute apartment in Paris at 21:00.
As soon as we arrived, we put in a load of laundry and went to the closest grocery store that was open. The neighbourhood is super cute! It isn’t nearly as dirty as I was expecting. We bought some baked chicken meals, along with some beverages and fruit to take home for dinner. I am looking forward to our 2 hour tour of Paris tomorrow.