Oy With the Poodles Already: Cultural Activity #3: Parc Asterix

Halloween in Paris is a bust. There actually isn't even such a thing, but people attempt to have some festivities mainly because they think it's fun to be like America sometimes. I have to give them credit for trying, but I have so many tips for them on how to improve it and actually make me scared.

Anyway, the reason I'm so critical is because of my Halloween experience. (DISCLAIMER: I had a really fun time. Don't get me wrong.) For one of my cultural activities, and for just a fun Halloween activity, Kayla, Sydney, and I went to Parc Asterix. If you've read my Two Monthiversary post, you know a little bit about how it was. You can read that post, here.

Parc Asterix is an amusement park that is about an hour outside of Paris. You have to take the RER to get there, and then take a shuttle bus. It's very nice that they provide all this transportation, but it is kind of expensive. It wouldn't have been so bad if our metro cards worked out that far, but they didn't. The park is based off of the French comic "Asterix & Obelix".

Asterix is the little one, and Obelix is the big one.

The comic is about their ancient adventures in Gaul (France before it was called France) and the crazy antics they get into. The park is decorated in this fashion, with columns and cave paintings and giant sculptures of Zeus. It looks really cool. You know what else looked cool? And scary? Their website for "Peur sur le Parc". It was 4 days of what seemed to be a really scary fun experience. What it ended up being was one haunted house that was like 2 seconds long, and a few rides that were open that happened to have fake spiderwebs decorating them.

Here's where they could improve. There was a buggy ride that we went on, and we thought it might be a scary one. Nope. It had scarecrows and fake animatronic witches, but nothing that actually scared us (Except when Syd almost drove us off the road). What they should have done, was have REAL people hiding in the bushes in scary costumes jumping out at us. It would have been terrifying. They also should have had more than one short haunted maze thing. They also should have had more creepy werewolf guys or a chainsaw man running around the park. Basically they should have been more like Knotts Scary Farm. I guess I'm just really spoiled. I must say though, I do give them an A+ for effort, because they could have not had anything at all. I was a little spooked, I went on a roller coaster, and I got a huge barbe a papa (cotton candy en francais) and so it ended up being a pretty fun night after all. :)