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We Need Darkness to See the Light

Today was one of those days that makes you want to shake your fist at the heavens and scream, "Why did you invent Mondays?" A certain Englishman and I decided to spend the day in Disneyland outside of Paris.  Fortunately we were able to get some pretty inexpensive tickets both for the park and the train.  SNCF has a train line called Ouigo that is train travel on the cheap.  It's pretty much for the locals since it's totally hard to figure out and sort of out of the way.  These trains stop at the outskirts of major cities.  But the plus side, it's really cheap. So we got up early and made our way to the Tourcoing train station which is about a 50 minute metro ride.  We stood in line for 40 minutes trying to figure out why the train wasn't arriving and we weren't moving.  We finally got on board and left the station about 15 minutes late. I wasn't too worried since the train arrives in Disneyland an hour early.  We'd still have time to get whe

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