Now the autumn holiday has passed. And for once, I have had a vacation in the default week 42, but I also had a vacation in week 41, and that was an exciting week. My boyfriend's parents had invited us to Disneyland Paris to celebrate their wedding anniversary. We chose to drive to France, and since we did not want to drive the entire distance in one day, we spent a night in a hotel on the way.

The journey to Disneyland began Saturday morning, where the trip to Aachen had to take place - our destination to stay overnight. The last time we drove to France, we did not encounter the 'famous' german traffic jams on the highways, but believe me, this time we did. For almost 1½ hours, we were going nowhere on a distance of 73 km of roadwork. Luckily we had plenty of time, and we did not arrive at the hotel too late. Sunday was without problems, and we arrived at Hotel Santa Fe in Disneyland around 1 o'clock. Here we met with my boyfriend's parents and had arranged to go look at the outlet center nearby. Unfortunately, it was a complete waste of time.

With five whole days to spend in the two parks at Disneyland Paris, we had enough time to see everything. We rode on most of the amusements, and we met Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, Peter Pan, Jack Sparrow, Lilo, and many more. To my big surprise, my boyfriend gathered enough courage to ride in Space Mountain, which is a roller coaster with loops and screws. In my opinion, the ride was too short, but there were a lot of beautiful scenes in the dark. The roller coaster is placed in a closed/dark dome. This year the theme in the parks was 'New Generation'. Therefore the Halloween theme was not as dominating as it was in 2005 when we were in Disneyland Paris for the first time. So vi missed pumpkin men and witches in the streets to make stir things up. We practically only saw them in the parades. In 2005 they were running around the park playing tricks with the guests and each other - that was fun! But all in all, it was a great trip.

What we did in week 42, is something I will reveal later.