Sunday November 11th.
We wake up late and stroll over to breakfast for about 10 oclock. We had had reservations for 8.30 but there doesnt seem to be any problem with eating at 10 instead. The breakfast at the Chuck Wagon Café is the same as the Fantasyland breakfast, bread, croissants and pain au chocolat. They also have crème caramel which is unusual but I have one for breakfast anyway. After breakfast we walk through the hotel grounds and take some pictures Cheyenne Hotel Our building
We walk through the Disney Village and into the park, it is noticeably busier than yesterday, but then again it is nearly 11 oclock so I guess we shouldnt be too surprised.
We had a look around Discoveryland and I bought a few bits and pieces for Katies birthday in the shop there. I think we saw the Visionarium movie at this point, but I havent got a photo and I cant quite remember. Anyway, at some point we saw this movie and its very good. Its in French but you can get English headphones, although Katie refused the headphones and still seemed to enjoy it in French. After this, we went into see the Mulan show. This is a brilliant show I didnt know the story of Mulan at all, but we really enjoyed it and Katie was very impressed with the plate twirling. I wasnt too impressed with the crowd though, they seemed to be too busy tucking into lunch to bother applauding some of the amazing acrobatics. After we had walked around Discoveryland and I had decided not to wait for Honey I shrunk the audience, we found ourselves outside the Toy Story Pizza Planet, so we popped in there for a snack. This was another place where I noticed the music changed as you approached, so we were humming Youve got a friend in me by the time we were in the building. This place was packed, I cant imagine it in the busy season because it was pretty busy in the quiet season. We did get a pretty good meal though and we got to see Woody and Jessie. There is also a good kids play area which kept Katie amused for a while. The characters here had a stage area where they waited and the kids lined up to see them, but they also walked around a bit too, and we had a good chat with Jessie who was very impressed with Katies dalmation trousers as they looked like Jessies cowboy trousers. After lunch, we walked along a back road into Fantasyland. We went on Its a small world (well, are you surprised???) and Phil said it was 2.45 so we started to stake out some good spots for the parade. Except there were no ropes up, and noone else seemed to be waiting for the parade so that all seemed a little odd. After waiting for a while, Phil checked his watch again, and lo and behold it was only 1.45 we wanted to see the Mickeys Wonderland show which was on at 1.45 on the other side of the park, so we ran through Adventureland and made it to the show just as it was starting. This is a great show, its in French and English with the two human characters speaking a bit of each. The songs were in English. The language didnt seem to make much difference though, it was very easy to follow.
After the show we went over to the Pirates of the Caribbean, which we didnt do in Florida, I was really keen to do this and we walked straight onto it, I think this was because it was nearly time for the parade, as we had seen long queues earlier for this ride. The Pirate ride is great fun and Katie really enjoyed it, I was worried she would be scared and spent the entire time pointing out non-scary things for her to look at, but I think she would have been fine regardless. The fact that it was a boat seemed to help, since Its a small world is a boat and shes not scared on there. She even enjoyed the little drops although Phil looked a bit surprised! But her absolute highlights were the skeleton drinking the rum because you could see it pouring out of his neck since he has no body, and the skull and crossbones telling us to stay in our seats. After a very successful ride we headed into Fantasyland and took a walk around Alices curious Labyrinth I had heard it was impossible to get lost in here but we seemed to manage it, although eventually we got to the castle and climbed up. Katie was desperate to find the slide which features in her video but we think it must have been from the top level which was closed. Nevertheless, we had good views and managed, eventually, to find our way out. We decided to stop at the Tea Party for a hot chocolate, but they had no hot drinks, and although it was much warmer than yesterday it was definitely a hot chocolate kind of day. So instead we went over to the Old Mill and had hot chocolates and crepes. While we were sitting there I realized that my shopping bag was no longer in the pushchair. We had a quick look around and realized we hadnt seen it since the Pizza Planet earlier that day.
We headed back through the back road to the Pizza Planet, and nearly walked into a huge pile of horse poop I couldnt believe this as it had obviously been there since the parade and I would have expected it to be cleaned up almost immediately.
In the Pizza Planet I struggled to explain my problem to a number of staff who didnt speak great English since I dont speak any French I dont feel I should complain, but it did make it tricky. Eventually they understood but they didnt have the missing shopping. Feeling rather foolish we left and headed up to City Hall to see if it had been handed in there. City Hall didnt have it either, so that was a bit disappointing, but we were advised to try again tomorrow as things do get turned in all the time.
Feeling a little deflated, we left the park and walked to the Disney Village. We had reservations for the 6.30 show of Buffalo Bills Wild West show, and since we were celebrating Katies birthday in the morning I wanted to pick up a few bits and pieces for her in the shops. I also was still looking for the pin traders pin. Katie fell asleep while we shopped, which made things a bit easier, and I picked up a few things for her. We had been looking for a light up Pooh Bear since hers (from WDW) had broken, and I spotted some light up Sorcerer Mickeys which I thought might do the trick, but they were seriously dirty and broken and looked like old stock that hadnt sold in WDW and had been shipped over to Paris, I was really disappointed as Katie loved her Pooh Bear and this would have been a big hit. In the end I get her a Mickey Ears which lights up, its not quite as good as Pooh, but it does work.
I also spotted some serious pin traders at the pin trading station and tried to work up the courage to ask them about the pin I wanted, but they seemed to be deep in negotiations so I didnt interrupt.
We headed into the Buffalo Bill show quite early and asked for a seat near the back this took the CM by surprise, but Phil is allergic to horses and was concerned that he would start to sneeze if we were too close. Katie was fast asleep through all of these which was a shame as they had face painting and photographs on offer. We ordered a bottle of wine for the meal, which was a little silly as I didnt realize the meal included all the beer you could drink, and watched a show while we waited to be seated. We were given red cowboy hats and seated in the Red section of the theater. Katie woke up just in time for us to be seated, and the show began! The show is great I dont think I can do it justice, but its cowboys and Indians, a rodeo, and some sharp shooting from Annie Oakley. We had a super clown to help our section cheer on the red team, and we just whooped and Ye Hahad our way through the performance. The meal was ok we had chilli to start with, followed by lots of meal (it was very dark and hard to see exactly what you were eating), I vaguely remember a pudding as well. Katie had a kids meal which was chicken and sausages and chips dont quote me on that! The tickets came to about £80 but I thought it was worth it as we had a good meal and a great show. We all really enjoyed it Cowboy Katie
The show last for about 1 ½ hours, so we headed out of the show at around 8pm. As we passed the Pin trading station I noticed there were a couple of traders still hanging around but it was much quieter, so I decided to be bold and ask them if they knew where I might find this elusive pin. There were 2 traders there, obviously together, and the guy looked very amused when I asked him where I could find one, and pointed to his pins, he had at least 3 of them on the page his book was open to. I was pretty excited and dashed out to Phil to collect all our hats (our tiny pin collection is on our hats, we havent made it to lanyard status yet). The two traders looked at my small collection of pins and I have to say they didnt look too impressed, most of our pins were from DLP and freely available to they had them already. I didnt expect they would agree to a trade, then the girl pointed out a Muppets 3-d pin we had from Orlando, this pin was given to us by a CM in Epcot and we hadnt given her anything in trade, she just gave it to me. I dont particularly like it so was more than happy to trade it. In the end the Paris Pin Traders Pin cost me the Muppets 3-d pin and another pin from WDW that we didnt like either, so that was a bargain! I was so excited I felt like I had won the lottery, it seems daft, but we had looked at every lanyard on every CM that we had passed looking for this pin, and I had just about given up ever finding it. I hope the Diser that asked for it still wants it!
After this we walked back to the hotel. Phil and Katie went to bed and I went to the shop to get her a couple more birthday presents and pick up her free birthday gift. I bought her a birthday pin, and a set of Mickey and Donald playing cowboys and Indians complete with Stage coach and wigwam. They had a couple of these play sets and I thought they were good value at about £10. We say Pirates, Cowboys, and Test Track sets but no really girly ones. The free gift was a badge and a Pluto Beanie and a birthday card, but disappointingly the card hadnt been signed by anyone. I knew goofy was often in reception so I went to look for him, and there at reception was Pluto, the reception was deserted except for Pluto who was standing at a podium looking rather bored I wish I had taken my camera because he looked quite funny. I asked him to sign the card which he did, so Katie got a card and beanie and it looked just like they came from Pluto.
While I had been in the store I had tried to buy some wrapping paper for the presents, but they dont seem to sell wrapping paper I asked a CM and he gave me a lot of paper for free which I thought was very kind.
When I got back to the room, Katie was wide awake obviously she had napped to long earlier, so I spent the next half an hour hiding in the bathroom wrapping presents! Katie had no intention of going to sleep in her own bed, so I ended up in the bunk bed and it was quite comfy, so I would say you could easily sleep 4 adults even though its bunk beds.
In the morning, its Katies birthday .
We wake up late and stroll over to breakfast for about 10 oclock. We had had reservations for 8.30 but there doesnt seem to be any problem with eating at 10 instead. The breakfast at the Chuck Wagon Café is the same as the Fantasyland breakfast, bread, croissants and pain au chocolat. They also have crème caramel which is unusual but I have one for breakfast anyway. After breakfast we walk through the hotel grounds and take some pictures Cheyenne Hotel Our building
We walk through the Disney Village and into the park, it is noticeably busier than yesterday, but then again it is nearly 11 oclock so I guess we shouldnt be too surprised.
We had a look around Discoveryland and I bought a few bits and pieces for Katies birthday in the shop there. I think we saw the Visionarium movie at this point, but I havent got a photo and I cant quite remember. Anyway, at some point we saw this movie and its very good. Its in French but you can get English headphones, although Katie refused the headphones and still seemed to enjoy it in French. After this, we went into see the Mulan show. This is a brilliant show I didnt know the story of Mulan at all, but we really enjoyed it and Katie was very impressed with the plate twirling. I wasnt too impressed with the crowd though, they seemed to be too busy tucking into lunch to bother applauding some of the amazing acrobatics. After we had walked around Discoveryland and I had decided not to wait for Honey I shrunk the audience, we found ourselves outside the Toy Story Pizza Planet, so we popped in there for a snack. This was another place where I noticed the music changed as you approached, so we were humming Youve got a friend in me by the time we were in the building. This place was packed, I cant imagine it in the busy season because it was pretty busy in the quiet season. We did get a pretty good meal though and we got to see Woody and Jessie. There is also a good kids play area which kept Katie amused for a while. The characters here had a stage area where they waited and the kids lined up to see them, but they also walked around a bit too, and we had a good chat with Jessie who was very impressed with Katies dalmation trousers as they looked like Jessies cowboy trousers. After lunch, we walked along a back road into Fantasyland. We went on Its a small world (well, are you surprised???) and Phil said it was 2.45 so we started to stake out some good spots for the parade. Except there were no ropes up, and noone else seemed to be waiting for the parade so that all seemed a little odd. After waiting for a while, Phil checked his watch again, and lo and behold it was only 1.45 we wanted to see the Mickeys Wonderland show which was on at 1.45 on the other side of the park, so we ran through Adventureland and made it to the show just as it was starting. This is a great show, its in French and English with the two human characters speaking a bit of each. The songs were in English. The language didnt seem to make much difference though, it was very easy to follow.
After the show we went over to the Pirates of the Caribbean, which we didnt do in Florida, I was really keen to do this and we walked straight onto it, I think this was because it was nearly time for the parade, as we had seen long queues earlier for this ride. The Pirate ride is great fun and Katie really enjoyed it, I was worried she would be scared and spent the entire time pointing out non-scary things for her to look at, but I think she would have been fine regardless. The fact that it was a boat seemed to help, since Its a small world is a boat and shes not scared on there. She even enjoyed the little drops although Phil looked a bit surprised! But her absolute highlights were the skeleton drinking the rum because you could see it pouring out of his neck since he has no body, and the skull and crossbones telling us to stay in our seats. After a very successful ride we headed into Fantasyland and took a walk around Alices curious Labyrinth I had heard it was impossible to get lost in here but we seemed to manage it, although eventually we got to the castle and climbed up. Katie was desperate to find the slide which features in her video but we think it must have been from the top level which was closed. Nevertheless, we had good views and managed, eventually, to find our way out. We decided to stop at the Tea Party for a hot chocolate, but they had no hot drinks, and although it was much warmer than yesterday it was definitely a hot chocolate kind of day. So instead we went over to the Old Mill and had hot chocolates and crepes. While we were sitting there I realized that my shopping bag was no longer in the pushchair. We had a quick look around and realized we hadnt seen it since the Pizza Planet earlier that day.
We headed back through the back road to the Pizza Planet, and nearly walked into a huge pile of horse poop I couldnt believe this as it had obviously been there since the parade and I would have expected it to be cleaned up almost immediately.
In the Pizza Planet I struggled to explain my problem to a number of staff who didnt speak great English since I dont speak any French I dont feel I should complain, but it did make it tricky. Eventually they understood but they didnt have the missing shopping. Feeling rather foolish we left and headed up to City Hall to see if it had been handed in there. City Hall didnt have it either, so that was a bit disappointing, but we were advised to try again tomorrow as things do get turned in all the time.
Feeling a little deflated, we left the park and walked to the Disney Village. We had reservations for the 6.30 show of Buffalo Bills Wild West show, and since we were celebrating Katies birthday in the morning I wanted to pick up a few bits and pieces for her in the shops. I also was still looking for the pin traders pin. Katie fell asleep while we shopped, which made things a bit easier, and I picked up a few things for her. We had been looking for a light up Pooh Bear since hers (from WDW) had broken, and I spotted some light up Sorcerer Mickeys which I thought might do the trick, but they were seriously dirty and broken and looked like old stock that hadnt sold in WDW and had been shipped over to Paris, I was really disappointed as Katie loved her Pooh Bear and this would have been a big hit. In the end I get her a Mickey Ears which lights up, its not quite as good as Pooh, but it does work.
I also spotted some serious pin traders at the pin trading station and tried to work up the courage to ask them about the pin I wanted, but they seemed to be deep in negotiations so I didnt interrupt.
We headed into the Buffalo Bill show quite early and asked for a seat near the back this took the CM by surprise, but Phil is allergic to horses and was concerned that he would start to sneeze if we were too close. Katie was fast asleep through all of these which was a shame as they had face painting and photographs on offer. We ordered a bottle of wine for the meal, which was a little silly as I didnt realize the meal included all the beer you could drink, and watched a show while we waited to be seated. We were given red cowboy hats and seated in the Red section of the theater. Katie woke up just in time for us to be seated, and the show began! The show is great I dont think I can do it justice, but its cowboys and Indians, a rodeo, and some sharp shooting from Annie Oakley. We had a super clown to help our section cheer on the red team, and we just whooped and Ye Hahad our way through the performance. The meal was ok we had chilli to start with, followed by lots of meal (it was very dark and hard to see exactly what you were eating), I vaguely remember a pudding as well. Katie had a kids meal which was chicken and sausages and chips dont quote me on that! The tickets came to about £80 but I thought it was worth it as we had a good meal and a great show. We all really enjoyed it Cowboy Katie
The show last for about 1 ½ hours, so we headed out of the show at around 8pm. As we passed the Pin trading station I noticed there were a couple of traders still hanging around but it was much quieter, so I decided to be bold and ask them if they knew where I might find this elusive pin. There were 2 traders there, obviously together, and the guy looked very amused when I asked him where I could find one, and pointed to his pins, he had at least 3 of them on the page his book was open to. I was pretty excited and dashed out to Phil to collect all our hats (our tiny pin collection is on our hats, we havent made it to lanyard status yet). The two traders looked at my small collection of pins and I have to say they didnt look too impressed, most of our pins were from DLP and freely available to they had them already. I didnt expect they would agree to a trade, then the girl pointed out a Muppets 3-d pin we had from Orlando, this pin was given to us by a CM in Epcot and we hadnt given her anything in trade, she just gave it to me. I dont particularly like it so was more than happy to trade it. In the end the Paris Pin Traders Pin cost me the Muppets 3-d pin and another pin from WDW that we didnt like either, so that was a bargain! I was so excited I felt like I had won the lottery, it seems daft, but we had looked at every lanyard on every CM that we had passed looking for this pin, and I had just about given up ever finding it. I hope the Diser that asked for it still wants it!
After this we walked back to the hotel. Phil and Katie went to bed and I went to the shop to get her a couple more birthday presents and pick up her free birthday gift. I bought her a birthday pin, and a set of Mickey and Donald playing cowboys and Indians complete with Stage coach and wigwam. They had a couple of these play sets and I thought they were good value at about £10. We say Pirates, Cowboys, and Test Track sets but no really girly ones. The free gift was a badge and a Pluto Beanie and a birthday card, but disappointingly the card hadnt been signed by anyone. I knew goofy was often in reception so I went to look for him, and there at reception was Pluto, the reception was deserted except for Pluto who was standing at a podium looking rather bored I wish I had taken my camera because he looked quite funny. I asked him to sign the card which he did, so Katie got a card and beanie and it looked just like they came from Pluto.
While I had been in the store I had tried to buy some wrapping paper for the presents, but they dont seem to sell wrapping paper I asked a CM and he gave me a lot of paper for free which I thought was very kind.
When I got back to the room, Katie was wide awake obviously she had napped to long earlier, so I spent the next half an hour hiding in the bathroom wrapping presents! Katie had no intention of going to sleep in her own bed, so I ended up in the bunk bed and it was quite comfy, so I would say you could easily sleep 4 adults even though its bunk beds.
In the morning, its Katies birthday .
