Just realised I've no blogged about my day so descriptively for awhile now, so trying to start doing it again feels, janggal. Had to use the Malay word for "awkward"/"odd" because sometimes Malay words make things sounds more dramatic, sometimes more offensive/negative (like how I always find the word "babi" for pigs is too offensive to be used in a daily conversations).
ANYWAYS. Back to the point! About my Paris trip, roight.
2nd February 2014: Hardly slept after Subuh that day and God knows what I was doing while waiting for it to hit "the right time" to get ready. Once we were all ready, we left Farm in our flat (because her train back to London was at 2PM) and went to the train station to catch the 12PM train to London. God, I thought I'll never ever take a 3 hours Sheffield-London train, but heyy, there's always a first to anything! 3 hours train for £9.90 pun 3 hours train lahhhh.. Beggers can't be choosers!
Arrived at St. Pancras station at about 3PMish and we went straight to our little hotel opposite the station. Checked in, prayed and dropped our bags and made our way to my favourite shawarma shop in London located at Edgware Road. Had lunch and then well, what is a London trip without a visit to Oxford trip eh? ;)
Made my way to ZARA, because I wanted to find this wool coat I saw online a few days back. I thought it was part of their new collection but somehow it was at their sale section, and it was selling for £29.99 instead of it's original price of £109.99! MAJOR STEAL OKAY! Dah lah it was the ONLY one left AND in my size (okay, fine it was an S, but better S than M okay), I immediately grabbed it and wouldn't let it go. It was FATE! Also got a pair of pink pants that was selling for £9.99. God bless ZARA's clearance sales :")
After that went back to the hotel and chilled for awhile before I headed out to dinner with Megat. Had dinner with Megsie at Hare & Tortoise, Blackfriars (I think..) and had Singapore style fried vermicelli. I don't know why, I've been craving for bihun lately.. Had a good catch up session with Megat over dinner, God, can't believe the last time I saw him was in September and probably the next time I'll see him is Summer or maybe 2015! :O
Walked back to the hotel after dinner and upon leaving, Megat gave me the weirdest advice ever;
Megs: Okay Sya. Have fun during your trip, take care, beware of gypsies, AND DON'T GET TAKEN!
Me: Taken...?
Megs: As in the movie? You've never watched the movie before have you?
Nope. But I know some girl got kidnapped or something and the movie was about her Dad trying to find her. You get what he's trying to say right?
3rd February 2014: Again, did not sleep after Subuh and thankfully Shrimpy woke up not long after that and we decided to go to the station early and get some nice breakfast to eat. By breakfast I mean two fish burger and a box of fries from Burger King, while Shrimpy had sandwiches like a normal person from Pret a Manger. Banana and Ash arrived at the station not long after and we proceeded to Eurostar's Check-In and waited for our train.
ZARA is the proud sponsor of our winter wear for this trip! .. I wish. But no seriously, yay to ZARA coats for keeping us (& about a gazillion others) warm!
Diorelly & Chanela's first overseas trip! :D With matching bags, similar coats and all! #clingyterlampau
We're on Eurostar!
See, the thing is, our out-bound journey requires us to switch trains at Lille Europe station. Our Eurostar train was heading for Brussels but stops at Lille. Ash, unaware of what's going on..
Ash: I thought we're going to Paris, why does it says Brussels?
Banana & Shrimpy: We're going to Brussels first then we go back to Paris..
Ash: REALLY?! We are going to Brussels? :D
And then those two meanies broke out laughing and Ash caught on the sarcasm..
About 3.5 hours later including the time spent at Lille waiting for our train to Marne La Vallee, we arrived at Disneyland Paris, Marne La Vallee Chessy! :D
While waiting for our free bus shuttle from the train station to the hotel.
Checked-in at our hotel (Explorer's Hotel), and after settling down and a bowl of ramen noodles for me, we hit the pool! :D
Clearly someone's excited... And yes, barefooted. Because nobody remembered to bring slippers for the pool.
And you can see whyyy we're excited for the pool! :D It has water slides and all okay! Uhmazingggg!
Probably about 10 years ago when I was here, I didn't bring my swimming attire and I couldn't enter the pool. Well now it's payback time! ;)
This particular slide goes from indoor, to outdoor then back indoor. It was amazing!
And the pirate's head bucket empties out every few minutes too, so you get reeeeally splashed.
After countless trips down the water slides, we decided that's enough chlorine intake for our noses and left the pool.
God bless heated, indoor pools man. Seriously, winter and drenched head to toe, they just don't mix well.. This was what happened,
Sprinting my way back to the room because boyyyyyy, was it freezing!
Thankfully because Shrimpy didn't spend too much time at the pool, blasted up the heater in our room and it was all warm and toasty in there.
Showered and then came dinner time! Now, earlier we planned on bringing lots and lots of Maggi so we can eat just that and save our money from spending so much on food, because food in France is expensive. However, not one of us in remembered to pack Maggi except Shrimpy who brought lots and lots of ramen noodles (which I stole earlier on).
So there Shrimpy was, casually "drinking" her dinner. While the rest of us had to make our way downstairs for dinner. We had pizzas with fries at the side. After dinner Ash insisted on taking a photo in front of this pirate ship that was part of the kid's indoor playground.
Then we discovered that you can enter the ship, but the maximum height inside the ship was only 140cm or so as it's meant for kids only. Being the rebels that we are...
For the first time, I'm too tall for something okay!
Went back to the room and slept like babies. Until 12AM.. When all four of us woke up, wide awake, because it was too bloody hot inside the room (heater was at its max).
Thankfully for them, they were able to fall back asleep about an hour later. I however..
Spent the entire night tossing and turning, waking up at every hour at maximum all the way til 5AM. At 5AM, I gave up and decided that I shall just stay awake til it's time to get ready. Not long after, it was 7AM and it was time to get ready for Disneyland..
