Celebrating my 30th Disney style a travel day

shellbatross
Apr 1, 2019
3 min read

A hop, skip…..

“Now, once upon a time, a single drop of sunlight fell from the heavens and from this small drop of sun grew a magic golden flower. It had the ability to heal the sick and injured… Well centuries passed and a hop, skip and a boat ride away there grew a Kingdom…”

Erm Flynn, thanks for the introduction but these nice folk are here to read about a 30th Birthday celebration at Disneyland Paris not Rapunzel!

“…. A healthy baby girl, a princess, was born with beautiful golden hair…”

“…that’s Rapunzel…”

Ok thanks Flynn for (nothin’!) helping me start this TR but I think I’ll take over from here!

So back to the reason we’re all here …. Today is 4th May (May the 4th be with you) which means one thing – the Disneyland Paris trip is finally here!!!! Let’s rewind just a little.

As far as I am concerned my Holiday started as soon as I finished work on Friday! It was my brothers 28th birthday and rather than staying home he decided to come up to ours a couple days early (DH and I live about 100 miles from our childhood home where the family still live) and we went out for a meal and some drinks. Then spent all day Saturday baking – Can’t wait for a glowtini. Mum and Dad arrived that evening. We had a small Party – I suppose you would call it a tea party - at our house yesterday afternoon for my very closest family and friends to start my 30th celebrations. The party ran 13:30 – 18:00 officially but of course there were some late stayers ;-) and, of course, there was a Disney element.

I was up first this morning – 05:30 (I was excited) and we used up the bacon and cream cheese for bagels – Yummy start!

I made sure the master of the house

Had enough dry food and water to last him whilst we are away. We have been having an issue getting him used to using his cat flap so I’m a little apprehensive. At the same time we know he used it when we were away for 4 nights in Jan and again over Easter so fingers crossed he’ll work it out this time too.

We finished loading up the car:

And left around 09:15. (Today is a bank holiday so I anticipated a lot of people travelling back after the weekend in the Westcountry. DH did the UK stretch of driving. It's a fairly dull drive However, I always love getting near London on the M4 as you can see Windsor Castle off to the right.

We stopped for lunch at coast to coast, one of my fave american restaurants (Menus and things can be found here - https://www.c2crestaurants.com/food-drink), in Rochester before making our way to Dover.

Cheers!

We got to The Premier Inn Dover Ferry Port approximately 16:00 and could check in straight away. I booked this May 2014 for £43.00 a room. I would certainly stay here again! It's extremely close. I had packed DH and myself an overnight bag so we could leave the rest of our clothes in the car rather than getting out our big case. After the long journey we checked out our rooms which have a great view -