This tread has been woefully neglected again. There is just so much going on in my life at the moment. Still, a lot of this is actually hardcore planning. I am pretty much ready for the big winter holiday apart from some loose ends that need tying up, but I still have 2 months to do this in.
The mini cruise has come and gone and was amazing. I had every intention to do a mini trip report for this, but in the end, we just chilled and I hardly took any photos.
If everything had gone according to plan, I would be on the next trip today. This weekend is the Run Disney race weekend at
Disneyland Paris. Unfortunately I missed the the first wave of bib only entries as by the time I was home from work on the release date, the 5K bibs had sold out. They released more bibs on 21st August, but again I missed out. I figured there was no point going if I could not run.
I managed to shift the time off and I am now going for the Halloween Festival from 2nd to 5th October. I fly out in the morning of the 2nd and should be in the park by lunchtime. One of the perks of my annual pass is that I get VIP seating for Illuminations, which is the night time show at Paris. I will book this next week. Graham is also coming, but he cannot leave until Tuesday evening. This works out fabulously well. I get free luggage storage with my annual pass so I will head straight from the airport to the parks and leave my bag at left luggage. After Illuminations, I will head to the hotel and check in. Graham should hopefully arrive soon afterwards.
There is still pretty little information about what will be on offer for the Halloween Festival. The 25th anniversary celebrations end this weekend so things should be back to normal. I know that the Halloween Calvacade will return. I also know Stitch will be out and I am hoping Marie and Cheshire Cat will be, too.
Graham will actually come to the parks with me on one day. The idea is that I will have a day and a half by myself in the parks and will concentrate on the characters, shows and parades. When Graham comes with me, we will concentrate on the rides. We fly back home late afternoon on the Friday. Originally I was planning to spend half a day on Friday in the parks as well, but then Graham mentioned that he was planning on going to Versaille that day and I kind of want to see this. So I may go with him 2.5 days in the parks should be plenty.
Corinna