Disneyland Paris Part Deux

We have our snacks that we brought and I pay for a thing of

popcorn in a 25^th anniversary bucket and that’s it for what I’m giving Disney.  We finally go on our ride for Peter Pan, which Oscar enjoys and even with fastpass, you still get to wait in line.  We ride a waterwheel boat in Frontier land and halfway around the moat in our 20 minute ride, Oscar says he has to go to the bathroom.  The bathroom that is closest

 on the map is in a part of the park that is under repair, so now we have to hurry to find the next one and they like to hide them here, which I get.  I wish that this was just a park that people could come visit because it is absolutely beautiful, with gorgeous landscaping, magical looking parts to the park, it’s just the crowds and the ridiculous

 amount of feeling like you have to have drunk the kool-aid to it.  Oscar’s enjoying it and he doesn’t know any of the characters or the movies, but the kids (and adults who are frankly worse than the kids at it) that do know the characters are dressed to the nines in full outfits.  We now just get a good spot for the parade at the beginning of the parade route 

   (because I’m getting strategic finally) and watch the incredibly ridiculous lengths people will go to not to wait in line, but still get a good spot while workers are trying to stop them.  Finally, the parade starts and it’s very nice with all of the “Stars” of Disney in it and Oscar just keeps waving to them all.  Belle and the Beast look very familiar because we rode the RER out to Disney with them.  When these people first got on the train, I thought 

 that they looked good enough to play characters at the park and I was right.  We then hurried to some other rides before most of the people left watching the parade. We rode the Orbitron, which went really high if you pulled back on the lever which Oscar was in charge of and he loved pulling it all the way back.  I was a little scared at the amount of height and G’s, but he wasn’t.  If someone else hadn’t been able to control the ride, I 

don’t think we would have come down.  When we got off, we went past the Star Wars section and there were people that kept walking past a line when told something by the person and I assumed that it was closed, but figured we needed to check.  I was told that this 20 minute line was the line to meet Darth Vader and take your own pictures with him.  Hell Yeah!!!  We stood in line for no time compared to rides, we’d passed up all the characters with lines all around them that we had seen all day, and went in to meet the Dark Lord of the Force.  When he came through the door to call in the first two adult females in front of us, they shrieked and Oscar started giggling.  I couldn’t believe it, I was

filming him to get a squeal, a reaction of some different type, but not this.  Even the guy working said that Lord Vader would not like Oscar laughing at him and calling him “silly”, but he continued to and when we got in the chamber, Oscar posed for his pictures with Darth Vader with his meanest face on.  Priceless….There was ONLY a 50 minute wait for It’s a Small World and so we did that and made the Alice in Wonderland Labyrinth the last thing because there was no wait.  But it turned out to be something that Oscar enjoyed way more than I thought because he got to pick all the directions that we turned and it was the closest I came to losing him all day.  But we decided to end on a high note.