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Glad the whole group eventually got to ride, but too bad it wasn't all together.
I think the baseball & football characters are unique to that one - or at least to ones outside the US.
Nice time on IASW, but couldn't
believe how rude the CMs were towards Barb!
Sadly, I really wasn't surprised by this. I guess I've got used to this sort of behaviour by Cast Members at Disneyland Paris.
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Glad Mark, Dave and Barb got to enjoy the ride! Especially, Mark as I know how much he enjoys it! Imagine if you got stuck on this ride with Mark for some time with that song playing! I can only imagine, what Mark may do!
Mark would say he'd be Ok with being stuck on it, provided he had some form of projectile weapon that he could use on whatever scene he was in!
Glad the whole group eventually got to ride, but too bad it wasn't all together.
I would've loved to have gone altogether.
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I think the baseball & football characters are unique to that one - or at least to ones outside the US.
Good to know - I didn't recall seeing them anywhere else and I can imagine that in the US, it might've caused problems, given they did seem to be supporting someone, although I wasn't entirely sure who?
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Saturday 30 April – part eight: oh wow, that’s amazing!
Sara, Tom and the kids decided to head off to Discoveryland, as Tom wanted to ride Space Mountain: Mission 2, while the rest of us headed over to Pizzeria Belle Notte. Now in all our visits here, I’ve always admired it from the outside – and there is quite a bit to admire…
… but we’ve never eaten, as it’s always looked closed. It was no different today, but this time, it was open, and the theming in here was wonderful.
In we went, given the menu said they had three cheese pizza, which of course I could eat!
I went for that, and look at the packaging of the box and the size of the pizza!
I also had garlic bread, as did Mark – and we both decided it was utterly disgusting!
However, the pizza was excellent, and I couldn’t fault it at all. Mark had the rigatoni Bolognese, and I don’t think it was that great, but he ate it, so that was the main thing…
We both had meal deals, and we got different options. I went with the ice cream bar…
… and Mark had the yoghurt…
Along with a drink, the whole thing came to €15 ($17), which I thought was good value for theme park food, and mine was certainly good quality too….
I would certainly come back here again, and I can’t believe it’s taken this many visits to find this hidden gem. I guess it just goes to show no matter how many times you go to a Disney park, there’s always something new to discover…
Before we were done eating, the others arrived back. Tom had done Space Mountain: Mission 2, so he was very happy, although the verdict was that it was a bit too intense for the girls, which I can understand. I went on it at Daisy’s age in Walt Disney World and it put me off coasters for almost 25 years. Even now, I can’t do the wild ones. Mind you, it didn’t help that my dad thought it was a gentle ride…
We headed out, taking a restroom stop on the way, and headed past the castle. Now there’s a lot wrong with Disneyland Paris (the attitude of some of the Cast Members, as already experienced today ), and the smoking wherever you want to (that’s how it works here ), but heck, the castle is pretty darned good!
And this topiary of Tinkerbell was amazing – Ok, so they cheated a bit, in that it wasn’t all done by plants, but even so…
Next: time to introduce them to the concept of Fastpasses then…
Beautiful pictures inside the pizzeria. It looked like you were the only ones in there! And what a great value! That sure was a lot of food for the price!
I agree about Space Mountain! That is one of only two rides in MK that I won't do. Teacups is the other. oh, and that other crazy spinning rocket ride in Tomorrowland, which I don't even know the name of!
It's a bummer you guys got separated with IASW, but awesome that Barb ended up riding it after all! And the guys enjoyed it immensely, I'm quite sure...
Their castle, their buildings, their details are just amazing. The pizzeria is as beautiful as anything else there! Such a shame they don't portray the same with their attitudes. And the smoking everywhere.... yuck. My brother smokes, I get that people smoke, but I sure wish DLParis could do like it's American counterparts and designate smoking only areas. Or perhaps we're just spoiled now?!
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Beautiful pictures inside the pizzeria. It looked like you were the only ones in there!
That's called creative photography. It wasn't crowded, but there definitely were others in there.
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And what a great value! That sure was a lot of food for the price!
I agree about Space Mountain! That is one of only two rides in MK that I won't do. Teacups is the other. oh, and that other crazy spinning rocket ride in Tomorrowland, which I don't even know the name of!
I know the one you mean - oh boy, I really suffered on that one!
It's a bummer you guys got separated with IASW, but awesome that Barb ended up riding it after all! And the guys enjoyed it immensely, I'm quite sure...
I just realised that I didn't share the photo I took of them after It's A Small World, as I took it on my phone:
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Their castle, their buildings, their details are just amazing. The pizzeria is as beautiful as anything else there! Such a shame they don't portray the same with their attitudes. And the smoking everywhere.... yuck. My brother smokes, I get that people smoke, but I sure wish DLParis could do like it's American counterparts and designate smoking only areas. Or perhaps we're just spoiled now?!
I don't even know whether they now have designated smoking areas. If they do, it makes no difference. I get that people smoke, but most places now do have specific areas, so you can at least avoid it.
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Especially, Mark as I know how much he enjoys it! 
Imagine if you got stuck on this ride with Mark for some time with that song playing! 
I can only imagine, what Mark may do! 
I guess it just goes to show no matter how many times you go to a Disney park, there’s always something new to discover… 
), and the smoking wherever you want to (that’s how it works here 
oh, and that other crazy spinning rocket ride in Tomorrowland, which I don't even know the name of!
Sorry Barb couldn't ride IASW! 
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