In the center of the maze was the Queen of Hearts’s Castle, which you could climb. There’s eMan at the top, dangling over the edge like a crazy man. Rodd and I had a wicked impulse to climb it ourselves and shout quotes from the French guy in “Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail” (“I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”), but we didn’t think they’d appreciate the humor.

While we waited for eMan to climb down, I fought my way through a passel of rugrats to get my pictures taken on the Queen of Hearts’s throne. Unfortunately it really was for kids, and therefore the seat was about six inches across. Seriously, it’s a deceptive piece of furniture. Ouch, my ass.

This is Sir Lancelot’s Carousel, and it really was a gorgeous ride. Unfortunately it was also the slowest one I’ve ever been on in my life, and you only got to go around about six times. Rodd and I had wanted horses on the outside (to at least have the illusion of going faster), but the little brats beat us to them and we had to settle for inside horses. Here’s eMan and Anne behind us.

Snookums couldn’t resist. Here he is with the gun (again) as a masked desperado, riding the slowest horse in the history of the world. You know, it’s a wonder some cast member didn’t get pissed at the way we were constantly waving that thing around. There’s no way you could wave a fake (and real-looking) gun around at DisneyWorld. I guess the French are just more lenient. Hell, they let everybody smoke and drink in the park, which they certainly don’t do at the U.S. version. Yep, other than the weather, EuroDisney certainly has a lot of advantages over its American counterpart.

Isn’t this pretty? The Dumbo the Flying Elephant ride was sorta on this platform above the water, and so the kids flying must’ve got a wonderful view looking down. (I didn’t ride it, having already accomplished that lifelong goal a year ago at DisneyWorld.) The only flaw was that the water had a pretty strong chlorine smell, but at least that meant that it was nice and clean! And the swans and ducks didn’t seem to mind.

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