The following is the links to the pictures for each day. If you'd like to read the description, it's at the bottom of this page. Each day also has a description at the bottom for that day. All in all we went picture crazy and took 2,973 pictures, nearly 3GB
of images. This page is only including the highlights, which is only
141 of the images, plus 10 photos taken by the guides and given to us as
printed images.
This year we decided to go to Europe. I’ve been promising my wife to take her for years. I decided to go with a preplanned vacation package because of lack of time to plan the trip. We were really pleased with our Disneyworld trip last year, and so I decided to give the Adventures by Disney a try. I thought it was rather expensive, but figured Disney would give us a good vacation. After the fact I think the money was well spent, and would wholeheartedly recommend them to anybody. The trip was first class from beginning to end. The only complaint about the trip I would have would be the current rules & regulations on international travel, which obviously Disney can’t do anything about. All through the trip the guides referred to the trip as an “adventure”. At first I thought this was just lip service to the “Disney way” of doing things, but about halfway through the trip I started seeing it and appreciating it. I don’t really have a way of explaining it. But now I’m looking at the other Disney Adventures and see where else I want to go. The adventure was a group of people, they tell me that they normally have 30-40 “adventurers”, but our group was a small group of only 14, probably because of all the international problems of late. In addition to the 14 “adventurers” we had 2 adventure guides, Roni & Alex (short for Alexandria). Then in each city we had a local guide that would guide us, and tell us history and all that stuff. In London it was Steven, and in Paris it was Helene, but she had to leave early and the last day was Thomas. Each day we were given our schedule for the next day as well as an adventure pin (pictured above to the left of each days description.) The guides did a fabulous job of making it so we didn’t have to worry about what was coming next, just make sure we were ready to go when it was time, and they would take care of everything else. At first this was very disconcerting, because I have such an alpha personality, my natural instinct is to be involved in planning and stuff. But Alex and Roni did a terrific job of making me (and all of us) trust them and leave everything to them. The other thing that occurred was that all of the adventurers became
sort of a family away from home. The first day everyone was sort
of reluctant to get to know each other. After a few days though we
got to know each other so well that we started talking about future vacations
together, and trying to figure out how to make sure our guides Roni &
Alex were with us.
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