We rented a car and drove to Val d'Europe which is a little town 40 kms outside of Paris. We stayed at the Radisson near Euro Disney for three nights. We arrived there on Tuesday, July 15th. Once we got settled in the hotel, we headed to Disney Village and had a late lunch/early supper at the Rainforest Cafe. We sat right next to the elephants and Jaret loved it! We then decided since it was only late afternoon and Jaret had slept quite a bit in the car, that we would spend some time at Disney. It was a blast!
On Wednesday, we spent some time at the Chateau de Versailles. It was so incredible. I was blown away by how large the grounds were. We started doing a tour of the palace but ended up leaving part way through as the lady doing the tour was hard to understand and it wasn't the easiest tour to do with a toddler. But we did walk some of the grounds.
We then drove into Paris and walked around. We visited the site of the "Tombeau de l'Empereur" or the Tomb of the Emperor - Napolean. There was some dinner event just about to take place and with so many military officers arriving, we decided not to pay to go and tour. We instead made our way to the "Tour Eiffel" or Eiffel Tower. We waited in line for quite sometime in order to go up but once we were up there, it was pretty amazing.
Thursday, we spent a full day at Euro Disney again. Jaret really enjoyed being there and going on the rides. His favourite was the train "Le Petit Train du Cirque." He also liked the boats but as he told us, "Not the boats with the fire." The boats with the fire refer to Pirates of the Caribbean. Instead, he wanted to go on It's a Small World - which we did a few times. He also like the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House.
While we stayed at the Radisson, they also had a great pool that we spent each night in. Jaret is like a fish in water and despite how tired he was each night, never wanted to leave the pool. The one draw back to our time here was that each morning we did not receive our wake-up call. We found out that the hotel was having trouble with their wake-up call system which was frustrating because sleeping in each day did not allow us to see everything we would have liked to have seen.
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