Christmas in Disneyland Paris, part 1

  So on our last full day in Disneyland Paris in 2012 it was the start of the Christmas season. It was also a very foggy morning but I think that just added to the magical feel of the place. I spotted balloons on the way in. I love how different the balloons in DLP are compared to WDW:

There was alot more Christmas decorations up that day as well. The windows had more decorations, the fence had been taken down from around the Christmas tree and Main Street had Christmas garlands:

There was a few characters meeting around the Christmas tree in Christmas themed outfits including one I've never seen before. Angel:

It was the ridiculous mob system again so I didn't bother to wait long. Today we walked the shops on the side of the street we hadn't explored so it was the Main street bakery and confectionery shop which were full of Disney yummies:
                                      

At the top of the street the Castle hub was also full of Christmas decorations including fake snow and Disney Snow characters:

We waited here for the first Christmas Cavalcade of the day. It reminded me of the parade at  Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party in WDW but there was fake snow on Main Street, Santa and a bunch of Disney characters:

From there we went over towards Discoveryland around the side of the castle which was also decorated for Christmas:

We went in through Fantasyland where there was a few characters mobbing including another one I hadn't seen in the parks before. It was Rabbit from the Winnie the Pooh movies:
                         

We wandered through Fantasyland and over towards Adventureland not going on any rides but just taking in the scenery.
                                           

                                                   
  From there we wandered down towards Frontierland and decided to take a boat trip on the Molly Brown. In DLP Thunder Mountain is on its own island. You get on the train in Frontierland and then the train goes underwater and comes up on Big Thunder Mountain Island. The Molly Brown travels around Big Thunder Mountain's Island.

                                      

                                       
 You get a good view of the Haunted Mansion from the top of the boat as well:

I spotted this as we got off the boat. Jack and Sally from Nightmare before Christmas were meeting in front of it. I didn't wait for pictures but there was a proper character queue there as well:
                        

Continued in next blog