The Disney Bullet

Living Europe admittedly made us a little snobbish about ever going to Disney-anything or anywhere. We figured, "All Dinsney's trying to do is look like these beautiful, old medieval European towns and castles. Why spend hundreds of dollars, when you can see see the real deal for free?" With Aylin 14 and Emilio 12, we prematurely declared victory thinking we'd dodged the Disney bullet. But when we asked Aylin, "Where do you want to go this summer to celebrate your quinceañera?" and she said, "Paris and... Disney," there was nothing left to do but bite THAT bullet.

We'll get to Disney later. For now, we'll roll right into Aylin and Emilio's first blog posts. I asked them to write about their favorite aspects of the trip in no particular order, so...