Trip to France – January 26-29, 2001

At the end of our first day in the park we headed back to Main Street U.S.A. to get spots for the "Main Street Electrical Parade." It was really pretty, but I'm pretty sure that all the floats were exact copies of the ones I saw at DisneyWorld. I liked this one of the mama swan with the three babies. We had fun trying to see the little men driving them beneath the mesh surfaces.

Here's me, Snookums, and Anne over to the left, with the Main Street Train Station lit up behind us. (Drat those French people in their shiny, red, overexposure-causing anoraks!) We decided to the Disney Village, which is their nightlife and restaurant area. Somewhere, beer was calling our names.

The wall outside the Disney Planet Hollywood was covered with handprints and autographs, and Snookums couldn't resist seeing how he compared with his idol, Clint Eastwood. They were an exact match! So the gun had to come out again... *grin* The siren call of beer was getting louder though, so we hurried into the nearest bar establishment.

That turned out to be "Billy Bob's", which we immediately re-christened to "Bob's Country Bunker" after "The Blues Brothers." Within half an hour of our arrival, the place was packed with French people in full country getups: boots, hats, ruffled skirts, you name it. The live band started up, and people actually began to line dance! I nearly fell out of my chair when the third song they played was "Islands in the Stream," which HAS to be one of my favorite songs of all time.

We decided on dinner in the Rainforest Cafe and spent 20 minutes in the Gift Shop waiting for a table. eMan couldn't resist these cuddly green frogs, while Snookums and I bought each other monkeys and beanie babies. Dinner was good, and afterwards we headed home to the hotel for much needed sleep.