Here is a picture of the kids looking at the Disneyland Paris catalogue that just came in the mail. I promised Terence and Mia that once they learned French at the Lycee Francais (French school) then they would be rewarded with a trip to Disney Paris (they actually think you cannot go unless you speak French). We are booked to stay there during their April school holiday. Before booking, I looked online to see if France, Belgium or the UK were on school break at the same time. When I found out they are not on break I booked Sunday - Wednesday avoiding any extra weekend people! Hopefully the weather will be good and there won't be long lines. Regardless, with our hotel room we get a VIP fastpass which allows us to jump up the front of any long lines.
Terence's comments when looking at the park's map was, 'Mama, I just can't stop looking at this. It looks so exciting.' This is a photo of him showing his sisters. Mia likes the look of Magic Kingdom - especially of the night photos of it with lights all over and fireworks in the sky. Terence is memorizing the map and asking lots of questions. He wants to know how many night-nights till we go. I'm going to have to count. Mia wants to look like all the princesses in the magazine. We better remember to pack her princess costumes!
They asked us what the Magic Kingdom is. I don't really remember if you can go inside or what it is other than a Disney landmark. So, I told them it is a place where you can go and have your dreams come true (the commercial's brainwashing has gotten to me as I am almost positive that is their slogan). Terence and Mia are so excited. She immediately shouted out that she dreamed of being 'a beautiful sparkly princess with a diamond on her crown and a sparkly magic wand'. Terence said his dream was to get 'Pokemon trading cards'. They are all over the playground at school and Curt searched high and low in London for them and had no luck finding any. Terence has lots of other trading cards including Yu-gi-oh but Pokemon are the 'in' thing right now!
It is now 9:12am on Sunday and all three of them are enjoying the children's show Lazytown on Nick Jr. Curt is playing tennis with Rav from 9-10am. This is the first time in... probably 7 years that he has played! I hope Rav has lots of patience as Curt is a great player but very out of practice. And I now have to go and make the kids a promised Dutch Baby (giant pancake souffle) for breakfast.
