Trip Report Magic everywhereeeee! Christmas with the little ones TR! Completed.

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Quick recap - 15th nov - 19th nov at the Cheyenne

The who -
Me - becki
DH - Stuart
DS1 - Jesse (3yrs)
DS2 - Teddy (6months)
Nanny - Lynn (my mum)
Sammi - (my sister, 20)
Brittany - (my sister, turned 13 at Disney!)
Charlie - (family friend)
Nicholas - (Charlies son, 4)


Wednesday 14th nov
We set off about 4pm, uneventful journey, got a McDonald's, got to near Mansfield and realised id left Teddys bottles at home on the side!!
Drove round looking for a big supermarket and found a morrisons, got a 1 bottle and decided to find somewhere in ashford to buy some more, rest of journey fine apart from Jesse keep saying he needed the toilet and us stopping at the services and him not really needing it! Got to ashford about 11.30pm, found a Sainsburys, bought some more bottles and washing up liquid and then found the travel lodge. Finally all got settled and asleep for 12.30 watching big bang theory.

Thursday 15th November
Alarm woke us at 3.50am, actually managed to get up, ready and the kids in the car and set off for 4.30am, got to the terminal and just had time for a toilet stop and to grab a hot choc for our 5.48am tunnel crossing!

Last time we drove to dlp we got ridiculously lost but this time we had a sat nav and the journey was quick and easy.
Arrived at the Cheyenne around 11am, reception was packed! We looked in the shop and hung around while my mum queued for check in, fed ted his bottle and Jesse met goofy and Pluto! Pluto licked him and goofy took a shine to teddy and was playing with him while Stuart was feeding him! I was worried about how both boys would react to the characters but I needn't have worried! Not even in the parks yet and 2 characters seen!

So we finally are checked in and rooms arnt ready so we head to the village, Stuart has to run back for jesses passport for his AP so we all meet up at EOS, never been here before as it was being built last time we came in nov 2010, I loved it, now I know why everybody raves about it lol. Stuart had an original and I had an all American. Mine was amazing and the bite I had of Stuart's was nice too, we just got one sandwich as a meal deal and shared the drink and crisps. Jesse got a kids meal of a cheese sandwich, Capri sun and mini brownies, he ate his sandwich but didn't want the brownies so me and Stuart shared them and they where delicious! Also fed ted his lunch which was a banana porridge pot lol.
Fiiiiinally! And it felt like we'd been here ages but it wasn't really that long, we got into the park, half the group went off to the toilets and the speakers where announcing that the Christmas cavalcade would be coming in 10 minutes, so we decided to wait in town square but then thought we'd walk up and get the annual passports sorted and see it at the top near the castle. Teddy needed changing so I popped into the baby care centre to sort him out and then went outside and the parade was going past, I ran to the passport office and Jesse was already at the rope watching with my sister, he was so excited to see buzz and woody and Santa!
When that had passed Sammi Stuart and Jess went to sort the APs out, I thought it would take ages but actually was really fast, Jess looks like a maniac on his photo lol!
We decided as we were around there that buzz would be the first ride. As ted wasn't allowed on me and mum waited at the exit to baby switch, but unfortunately Jesse hated it, don't know why because I thought he'd love it. So my mum went on with Nicholas and I missed my turn I was annoyed then but tried not to be bothered about it even though I love buzz! Went in the shop and found an awesome buzz sleepsuit for ted so that was my first purchase, €16 with AP discount (thanks Jess)
Then everyone decided they where going on sm, I was still upset I missed buzz and then was expected to wait around again. So I walked off with teddy round to fantasyland in a huff. Went to the little hut near the teacups and got a Disney hot choc and sat on a bench, ted was napping now so I walked around some of the shops around the castle and then over the other side and back to discoveryland where I found everyone.
We took the boys to see the dragon but they where both abit unsure, so back under the castle to fantasyland. Mum suggested snow white but as Jesse already didn't like buzz I wanted to take him on Peterpan first, we lost each other then and it ended up just me Stuart and our boys, Pinocchio had a 5min queue so we did that as our first ride together. Jesse was okay with that one and teddy loved it.
We walked over and got fast passes for Peterpan which where for 15.45/16.15 so we decided to go to adventure land while we waited, (it was around 15.15then) so we walked over to potc, teddy was allowed on, woo! Jesse didnt like the queue so much especially since some teenagers kept doing loud evil laughter and he didn't like it. Once we got on he was fine though he stayed snuggled up to me.
We looked in the shop afterwards while Stuart went and got the pram and then we went back over to Peterpan. This was a big success and Jesse really enjoyed this.
We decided to walk to frontierland to find jack after this so we went via the Aladdin walk through which we all
Enjoyed. As we got to the meet and greet area jack wasn't there but I asked the photographer and she said 2 minutes. So we got in the small queue. They closed it after us so I was glad we got in the queue.
When we got to the front jack was absolutely amazing with Jesse. I was so happy. Jesse loved it! Jack hugged him and told him he loved his jacket and pointed out all the animals on it, then showed Jesse his spider in a cage and all the presents and told him who they were for! Jesse kept saying 'it's jack the pumpkin king!' I got some gorgeous photos of them and Jesse won't stop talking about jack now!

It was getting closer to the time we were meant to be meeting for dinner do we decided to make our way up main street. We just caught the end of the parade, but decided we would watch it properly tomorrow, we went into Caseys and got 2 hot chocs and found a table to give ted his bottle.
After this we walked through the shops down to town square and out of the park to Annette's diner.
We waited outside for the others but it was freezing so went in and got a table for 8, the waitress said we could take Teddys pram in as he is 'too small' which we appreciated. I fed ted an Ella's kitchen pouch while we were waiting and Eventually everyone turned up and we ordered. Food came soo quick it was abit scary! We both had the favourites menu, I had a cheeseburger and Stuart had the rock n roll burger. I split my burger with Jess and ordered him a banana milkshake as I knew he wouldn't eat much! He was too over tired and excited! It was lovely as usual, I gave my mum my brownie and decided to get a cheesecake.. It was nice but so rich I couldn't finish it even though I only ate half a meal! We had a visit from elvis while we were there too, he was very funny and winding up diners lol! He pulled brit up and told a women who was eating a burger with a knife and fork my sister was scared and going to have nightmares lol! And praised everyone who was eating with their hands!
Stuart, my mum and the kids walked back to the cheyenne to Sort the rooms out while me Charlie and Sammi went to WOD. I needed to get Brit a present. Maybe its just me but i wasnt that impressed. Yes its a nice shop but it just sells all the same tat as everywhere else, and also i expected it to be bigger. :/ in the end I got her a Merida ornament in the princess set she collects and also got Jesse a fantasia mickey light spinner thing.
We walked back and we were shivering! I was glad I hadnt made the kids stay out for dreams because they weren't layered up enough, decided to make sure they where wrapped up and see it on Friday instead.
My mum text and said we were in doc Holliday, right next to the path and the first 2 rooms at the main door. Very very glad of that!
So the kids running around from room to room while Stuart and mum are unpacking the cars, I quickly unpacked everything and tidied around, teddy had his bottle and we said goodnight to next door. The kids where asleep in minutes! Knew they where tired!
Stuart washed up and we got in bed around 9.30pm, got to sleep around 10.30pm ready for our first full day, 7am breakfast and EMH!

 

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Friday 16th November
The alarm went off at 6am, we eventually got out of bed at 6.30am got ready and wrapped the kids up and headed to breakfast around 7.15am. It was pretty quiet and there was no queue, plenty of tables. Stuart had some toast and some meat and crusty rolls, I had a couple of croissants with jam and Jess had some frosties and some cubes of cheese. I got some apple purée from the buffet and gave ted that with his porridge. I made a jam croissant and stuart made a ham sandwich for later. As we were leaving it was a lot busier and people were queuing.
We walked back to the room and knocked on next door who still weren't up and ready for breakfast! Packed my bag for the day and gave ted his milk and changed him. Then we set off for extra magic hours!

We walked down and through the village, it was pretty misty and cold but we were all wrapped up so we were okay.

Into fantasyland and we decided to go on dumbo. Jesse really enjoyed this one and made us stay up high the whole ride!

Peterpan was quite busy so we walked over to its a small world, taking some pictures at the mad hatters tea party along the way.

Both kids loved iasw which is funny because Stuart hates it!
We walked back to pp but it was still busy so we walked through the castle to discovery land, Jesse didn't want to go on buzz so the boys went on orbitron while me and teddy waited.

Afterwards we walked to videopolis for a toilet stop and as we came out Jesse said he wanted to go on buzz again so I didn't wait for him to change his mind and ran on with him! He has abit scared at the beginning and wouldn't shoot his gun but he was fine at the end. I bought him a buzz laser gun for being a brave space ranger.
It was about 10.10am now so we walked to Main street and saw pooh was out, we got in the queue but it was quite big and slow moving so we left to go to studios and meet up with everybody. We went over to tspl stopping to take some pics outside boos door.

Jessie was out at the front of tspl, we stood for a while, lots of pushing in but eventually Jesse got to meet Jessie! She was lovely with him, hugging him and she asked for a kiss on the cheek!

Just as we left Jessie we saw The rest of our group coming out of tspl so we split up again, me Brit and Stuart went to tot and Jesse went to slinky dog with everyone else. The queue was short for tot and we all loved it as always!
We met back up and buzz was out so we got in the queue, buzz was funny and stole jesses laser gun and pretended to shoot his minder! Jesse found this hilarious! We got some nice pics too.

it was really cold and around midday now so me and Stuart took teddy for food while Jesse stayed with everyone else and went on the cars ride. We went to restaurant en coulisse to feed him, and just got a hot choc to share. We ate our snacks from breakfast and a rocky each too. Let ted kick around in the pram for abit with no snowsuit on as he was getting abit grouchy,

my mum text saying they where eating lunch so we walked all round the park looking for them but turned out they were at the otherside of en coulisse! Mum had bought jesse a buzz spinny thing like his mickey one. Apparently he didn't like mickey anymore and wanted a buzz one like Nicholas lol.
We all walked across to rnrc and the stars and cars parade was due to start. Me and Stuart went on as there was no queue and got out just in time to see stars and cars, afterwards Charlie, Sammi, Brit and Stuart went on rnrc while me and my mum sat with the kids.

Jesse and teddy where starting to get grumpy at this point so I wanted to take them back the room for an hour but Jesse insisted he wasn't tired and wanted to go with nanny.
Me Stuart and ted walked out of studios through the shops but it was all samey so we didn't get anything.
We walked through the village and decided to get an EOS to take back to the room. Stuart got an Italian and I got Hawaiian BBQ and a choc pudding to share. It was all delicious as expected. Ted woke up for his milk and had a roll around on the bed. The rest of the group came back and mum carried Jess in.. He'd fallen asleep in the pram! We decided to chill out and let the kids relax for abit and head out to the park again later for dreams and our reservation at cafe mickey at 8pm. We were supposed to set off at 4 for the parade but we all fell asleep so we ended up setting off at 6pm back to the park after feeding ted his tea and freshening up. It felt a lot colder when we set out as it was getting dark. Santa was on his stage in the village so Charlie and Nicholas went to queue but we wanted to find a spot for dreams so went on ahead. Found a nice spot near Caseys, and parked the prams up and sat on the wall. It was about 6.30pm so me and Stuart sneaked off for a quick go on phantom manor, it was deserted and really creepy walking through the grounds in the dark. It was a lot better than I remembered and more effects where working than last time.
We got back to the group and ted was fussing so I made him a bottle and fed it to him sat on the wall. Then dreams started and he was mesmerised! He loved it, it was so sweet seeing him watching it. I really really loved dreams. It was so clever and worth waiting around in the cold for!

 

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Friday part 2

We left the park with the crowds through the arcade and walked up to cafe mickey for our reservation, we had to wait for abit but not for long. straight away Pinocchio came over and spent some time with us, quickly followed by Pluto. Then Tigger came over and as teddy had an outfit with whinnie the pooh on he made a huge fuss of him and ted was sucking tiggers hand lol.
I got a cocktail which I can't remember the name of but it was nice, then our starters came we ordered a garlic bread between us as we weren't too hungry and I knew Jesse wouldn't eat much!
Then mickey came over and we had some nice interaction, he held ted for a photo which was lovely. Jess was getting grumpy by this point and was holding his hands over his face when mickey went over to him. Mickey kept tickling him though and he was soon laughing and posing for a photo! Our main came which was just a cheese pizza to share, it was huge and tasted fine and we finished it off.
The characters took a break and when they came back out the birthday music came on and mickey brought Brits cake out, he was really into it and helped her blow the candles out, then goofy came over and dipped Brits finger in the cake and wiped it on her nose! Hilarious!
We paid up and left and wow it was cold on the way back! We came back to the room, Stuart stayed to put ted to bed, Jesse was still hyped up so we decided to go to the games room and bar with the others.
He went off with Brit, Charlie and Nicholas while me, my mum and Sammi went to the bar. I got a yellow rose which was yummy, then Jesse joined us and he had a blue slushie in a huge mickey cup.
I was tired so didn't hang around and came back to the room with jess, we got into bed coming up to midnight and went to sleep undecided about when to go for breakfast!

Pictures from cafe mickey

 

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Saturday
Alarm went off at 6am, we slowly got up and ready, knocked on next door who where all still asleep except my mum so she came for breakfast with us. We had the same as yesterday pretty much except Jesse who had a croissant and some ham.
Teddy had an apple and banana fruit pot. We walked back to our room and got our stuff ready for the day, the rest of the group where still in the early stages of getting ready for breakfast so mum came with us for emh. We dawdled along with Jesse still abit tired and grumpy and got in the park around 8.40am, quickly went to get Jesse a free pram with his dream pass.so just 20 mins of extra magic left we decided to go on peter-pan. We all loved it again. After this it was rope drop so we walked to potc and waited around for a few minutes until it opened. I love the smell in here don't know if that's just me lol.
Next we went to casey junior which Jess loved and i had a lot more leg room than I remember from last time! He loved it so much he wanted to go on again so we swapped and me and Stuart stayed with teddy this time and Jesse went on with nanny. While we were waiting everyone else appeared and teddy was due his milk so we left Jesse with the group and went to fuente to feed him stopping to get fast passes for btm on the way. We walked through the covered walkways from adventure land to get there as it was raining a little bit.
We got 2 hot chocolates and 2 bags of our favourite churros while we waited for ted to wake up. As we where sat there I saw a mouse run along the skirting board!! Stuart thought I was seeing things but then he saw it too and it ran behind the counter!! Needless to say we decided we wouldn't be eating here tonight like we were talking about doing lol.

While we were there my mum text saying everyone was on phantom manor so we walked over and waited by the prams. As we were waiting sally came out and posed for a picture for me.
Everyone came out of phantom manor so me and Stuart went to use out btm fps while they got in the queue for jack and Sally. When we got there it was broken so we were told we could use our passes later. We walked back over to jack and Sally and got back just as it was jesses turn, it was a different jack but he was still good and nice to Jesse and we got some nice pics of all of us.

We walked over to the shops and had a look round and I saw a phantom manor snowglobe which I really wanted but didn't buy it yet. Then we went to use our btm fast passes. It was good but cold and we had freezing rain blowing on us the whole ride. When we got off Jesse was asleep in the rental pram and teddy was getting grouchy. The queues were huge everywhere so we decided to go back to the room for a nap and some food.
We went to take the pram back and stopped in Disney clothing to look around. Got ted a lion king top and a mickey rattle which he loved and spent ages chewing when we got back in the room. We met a lovely English cm in here called Toby that we had a good chat with about a few things and he said the shops may be changing back to how they used to be with their own themes instead of all the same now there are American influences with the big bosses. I made a mental note to fill in a compliment slip for him at city hall.
We took jesses pram back, he was still asleep so Stuart carried him to the village and then we swapped and put Jess in teds pram and Stuart carried on ahead carrying ted back to the room while I got us some food.
We decided to keep the tradition and had another EOS. I had my favourite all American again and Stuart had his favourite the original again! I got us a tub of brownies too and finally remembered to use jesses dream pass discount on food! I always remembered on purchases but never on food!
We ate our sandwiches and fed ted, my mum came in and borrowed our kettle as they were back for a break too. Jesse was still asleep and we'd put him in bed. We decided to have a nap and go to the studios to see some shows in a couple of hours.
Ended up waking up around 4.30, eating the rest of our brownies and some haribo, and setting off all together. We eventually arrived at studios around 5.40pm to discover all the shows where over for the day! We split up between the tram tour and slinky dog as everything else had huge waits (partly because crush was down) me, Stuart, Charlie, and the 3 boys went to slinky. Charlie stayed with ted while we took Jess and Nicholas on. Iv never been on this before. It was pretty short but the boys liked it. We walked over to studio 1 afterwards to meet the others and looked in the shops, Jesse picked a baby jack skellington, a buzz straw and some chocolate coins. After some waiting around we were all together again and walked to the other park. Sammi and Nicholas went to the toilets and we waited for them.. And waited and waited. I fed teddy a pouch while we were waiting as it was about 7pm and he was hungry. We were still waiting and kept taking it in turns to look for them. We started getting worried when they'd been gone half an hour! Me and Charlie walked up main street towards lost children to see if we could find them and spotted them walking down main street! They had gone to buzz thinking we'd gone over there!
Finally reunited we went over to discoveryland, as we got to the top of main street it snowed. It was the first time we'd seen it this time and teddy and Jess both loved it! Teddys first ever snow fall and it was in Disney lol.
Buzz was a 60min wait and fast passes where gone so we took our boys for food while the others went to get fps for space mountain for 9.10pm. Hyperion was packed out so we walked to chalet au de marionette. I queued for nearly an hour and then they said they where closed! The boys where so grumpy by this point and we were hungry and tired so we changed ted and left. Everywhere was packed so we decided to give up and go back to the room for an earlyish night and not wait around for our space mountain fps.
We walked through the village and looked in a few shops. I got a traditions jiminy cricket Christmas tree ornament.
We just decided to get a McDonald's on the way back as the village was busy too. I thought I would die in that McDonald's queue it took so long!
Anyway food bought we walked home and saw the huge fish in the river!
Sat on the floor in our room and ate our McDonald's. I got a royale cheese and Stuart had a royale bacon. Jess has a cheeseburger happy meal. It was fine and we got a lot of food for our €18.
Teddy stole jesses apple squeezy from his happy meal and he enjoyed that for supper. After we ate we got ready for bed around 10.30pm and watched Disney channel for abit deciding to have a lie in tomorrow as we were off to dlh for a late breakfast.

 

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Sunday
We decided not to get up early this morning and wake up naturally. Me and Stuart woke up around 7.40 and whispered for abit, Jess woke around 8am and teddy about half an hour later. We got ourselves ready and set off to the DLH where we were having breakfast this morning. We got seated around 10am.
Wow.. What can I say about this breakfast, it was amazing compared to the Cheyenne and we quite liked Cheyenne breakfast anyway!
I had eggs, potatoes and beans, followed by pancakes and maple syrup, and then some croissants and jam, a donut and a yoghurt. Stuart had similar and Jesse had 4 bowls of beans and a yoghurt lol! I gave teddy a banana fromage frais and some apple purée from the buffet too.
We where sat near the entrance and mickey and Minnie were out so we took the kids in the queue, when it was nearly our turn m + m went and eyore appeared. We got some nice pics and went back to our table. Mum went to pay and when she came back they said they had already balanced the till so it was free!

We went in the hotel shop and I found the boo with sulley blanket I'd been looking for all week! Id asked in world of disney who said it was sold out everywhere, and Toby the guy in Disney clothing told us it had sold out everywhere too but I saw some more later on in the day so maybe they have new stock! I actually jumped up and down when i saw it lol.
We went into the park and it was raining, Jesse was grumpy again (all the way through this im saying one or the other is grumpy but they arnt usually like this! I think they found it overwhelming!) so we went to get him a free pram. We walked to frontier land heading for phantom manor but it was busy so we went the other way stopping in the shop and buying myself the pm snowglobe. We got to Santa and it was 120minutes and we couldn't take teds pram in so we decided not to do it. The train had just left the station so we walked in the rain to adventureland. Everything was busy and Stuart felt poorly, both kids were asleep so we decided to give up and go to the room for abit. We walked to the stroller rental place to take jesses pram back. He woke up and picked up yet another spinny buzz he'd had his eye on all week, so we got him that and he was suddenly in a much better mood so we decided to go to studios.
We walked through studio 1 and headed to animagique, saw the rest of our group walking out, they where going back to the room so they took ted with them to feed him. Animagique wasn't due to start for ages so we watched stars n cars and then had a go on the flying carpets.

Then headed to parachute drop but was busy so we did tram tours instead. Jesse seemed to like this but said he didnt when we got off.
We set off to the room again after this, buying ted a NBC zero toy for Christmas on the way. We saw goofy Santa too and Jess was very happy to see him.

We decided to get the bus as our feet were getting tired by this point in the holiday. Got back to the room and had a hot chocolate and a sit down before heading back to Disneyland park with our fingers crossed it was abit quieter!
We Set off at 4.30, got to the park half way through the parade so me Stuart and our boys went to Caseys to beat the rush for food. We got 3 cheese hotdogs, 2 chips and 2 cokes, Jesse normally hates anything potato but today decided he didn't like the hotdog and ate nearly a full tub of chips!

We fed ted a sweet potato pouch too and then went on our way to fantasyland. We timed it right as Caseys was packed when we left.
Snow white was 10 minutes so I took Jesse on and when we got off Stuart took him on again. We met up with everybody and got some fps for Peter pan for just before fantasyland closed. The park had really emptied out which we were glad of.
We walked over to potc and it was at 5 minutes so we all went on together. Someone in front of the boat was taking photos and the camera flash annoyed me the whole way round! As we got to the unloading bay the queue was empty so we all went round again! this time I finally found the hidden mickey in the treasure scenes after years of looking!

After that we walked over to Indy, I went on with Charlie, Sammi and Brit, while Stuart gave ted his milk. It was only a 5 minute wait so when we came off Sammi and Brit went on again with Stuart.
We Walked to frontierland and Phantom manor was 5 mins too so we all went on together, then me Stuart and Sam waited with teddy while the others went on again. I was surprised Jesse liked this but he did.
We walked back to fantasyland as it was getting closer to our fp time, Sam and Brit went on snow white while mum and Charlie took the boys on Pinocchio. Me and Stuart waited with ted as he was asleep. Sam and Brit joined them on Pinocchio pretty quickly as snow white was a walk on.
Next Charlie, Stuart and the boys went on the carrousel, Jess had been asking all week but the queue always seemed to be huge! Afterwards we used our fast passes on pp and then walked to discoveryland through the walkway that's usually closed by iasw. We went to queue for buzz but Jesse needed the toilet so Stuart took him back to videopolis, Sam and Brit went to space mountain and charlie and Nicholas did star tours.
I don't know what happened but my back suddenly started really hurting. By the time Stuart was back I was needing to go back to the room for painkillers. We decided to skip buzz as we knew it would be a walk on during emh tomorrow and walked back to the Cheyenne through the village. I was abit sad we wouldn't get to see dreams again this holiday though
After all rides we did through the evening we were abit peckish so you guessed it! We got an EOS! (lol) this time Stuart got a Hawaiian BBQ and I got my usual.. An all American! Also got a choc pudding to share and Jesse had a kids meal with cheese sandwich and brownies. After eating in the room we packed as much as we could, got the kids to bed and got to sleep around 11.30pm ready for our last early breakfast tomorrow.

 

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Monday
Alarm Woke us up at 6.40am but we were tired and didn't get out of bed til 7.15am. Quickly got ready and dressed and got the kids ready for breakfast at about 8am. This was the latest we'd been for breakfast at the Cheyenne all week and it was a lot busier but we didnt stay long as we wanted to make the most of our last day! As we were leaving around 8.30 the queue was huge and went right through to reception and nearly out the doors! Glad we always did early breakfast!
We went back to the room and Stuart took some bags to the car while I sorted the kids out to go to the park! We finally set off around 9am saying a final goodbye to our room and giving our room keys to my mum as they hadn't even been for breakfast yet!
Jesse sat on the porch with a sad face because we were leaving today

Took the bags to the car and got in the park around 9.30, hired a free stroller and first stop was its a small world for me and Jess, Stuart waited with a sleeping ted.
Then the boys did dumbo while I waited with ted.

Next I took ted in chalet de la marionette for his milk while the boys went on Pinocchio and snow white.
Then we all went on phantom manor and said goodbye to jack, before leaving the park via the shops on main street to get some Christmas decorations.

We met up with the group outside studios, mum and Brit took Jess to get a pram and we all walked our of studio 1. Characters from stars and cars were around so the kids got some pictures and we split again, me, Sam, Brit and Stuart on tot and Charlie mum and the kids went to do slinky dog and cars.
We had a great bell hop on tot this time, he really bullied Sammi and let everyone else on the elevator and shut the doors leaving her on her own lol! Then when he let her in he jumped on her haha!

We rejoined outside cars which Charlie and the boys were still queuing for so I gave teddy a pouch on a bench while we were waiting. Jesse had finally met Woody while we were on tot, he was happy cus we'd been looking for him all week!
We walked to rnrc but it was closed so we left through the studio 1 shops buying a few Christmas presents for Jesse and my mum got him a toy story figure set ( he already has one that she brought him back from her april trip but half of them are broke now!)
We walked into Disneyland park and Jesse was carrying his figure set, as we got under the arches to town square a Security guy stopped us and asked to see a ticket for the set, well we'd split up again and my mum had the receipt. He basically accused of stealing it well I got quite mad and he just kept saying 'I only speak a little English' when I was trying to explain my mum had the receipt. I said well its not my problem you're the one accusing me! I wouldn't have been bothered but he'd walked through the gates with it and we hadn't been near a shop since we got in the park! It really put a damper on our last day and ruined the magic abit for me.
We Hired a pushchair and went to Colonel haitis for a pizza and coke. Mainly for Jess as he didn't eat any breakfast but he slept through even though we kept attempting to wake him up! We fed ted and changed him then went to hakuna matata to meet up with everybody else. It was coming up to 3.30 by now so we didn't have long left!
I got my free hot choc and a coconut tart which I wish I had discovered earlier as it was amazing!
We walked to buzz and got fast passes then back to adventureland for potc, this time they tried to say ted was too small but we said he'd been on before so they let him on.
The swinging pirate wasn't working this time, it had been all week though!
We rushed for our buzz fast passes after this, we where a few minutes late but they let us through anyway, probably because the queue only started after it joined anyway lol. Stuart got 150,000 to my 25,000 . My gun was broke! Lol

It was last ride time already!
Jesse chose Pinocchio but as snow white was a walk on we did that first then Pinocchio! We went in the shop on the way out and mum bought me a
Pinocchio bobble head set and Jesse a Peterpan soft toy. I got our niece a minnie mouse too. Fantasy land was closing now so we headed out saying goodbye to the castle and goodbye to the park. I had to promise Jess we would save our penny's and come again soon!
We walked through the village, I
Got Jess a McDonald's and we had ANOTHER! EOS! Stuart had his usual original, I got a ham and Swiss.. I soo wished I got an all American lol, Stuart swapped me half way through.
Spent ages waiting around for the rest of the group and I spent the last of our euros on some Christmas presents for Jesse, a stitch head smartie dispenser, 'evil dr pork chop' (as Jesse calls him) money box, a lion king figure set and a new toystory cup as his old stitch one broke just before we came.
We finally set off for home around 9pm. I was abit annoyed with all the hanging around because we could've seen dreams for the last time after all that messing about.

After a shaky start we got going and drove straight to the tunnel without stopping, kids were both asleep, the passport woman tried waking them up and they weren't having it, then we got a lecture about keeping them awake at the border.. Cus all kids are gunna be awake at midnight after a 3 hour car journey..
Anyway we were on the 01.22 crossing back to England."
It was uneventful and we were all tired and went straight to bed when we got to the travel lodge.
Jesse was sad when we woke up in the morning asking to go back to Disney I didn't want to leave! I never do! But now iv got the kids hooked we'll have to go back ASAP!

 

[DLPDreams]

Lovely to read your TR .

Your boys are just gorgeous - think I said in your PTR.

You managed to do quite a bit despite having two young children to slow things down a little.

Love the character photos - the one of Mickey holding Ted is fab! We have a similar one from CM of Friar Tuck holding my DD2 when she was about 6 months old - it's a lovely photo and thinking about it, he was the only character who made a fuss of her during the whole trip!

Shame Jesse didn't get to meet Santa! I am hoping we manage to do this without too much of a queue but from what I hear, there is always a queue .

Did you like the new Christmas Cavalcade? I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

 

[figaro2]

Lovely to read your TR .

Your boys are just gorgeous - think I said in your PTR.

You managed to do quite a bit despite having two young children to slow things down a little.

Love the character photos - the one of Mickey holding Ted is fab! We have a similar one from CM of Friar Tuck holding my DD2 when she was about 6 months old - it's a lovely photo and thinking about it, he was the only character who made a fuss of her during the whole trip!

Shame Jesse didn't get to meet Santa! I am hoping we manage to do this without too much of a queue but from what I hear, there is always a queue .

Did you like the new Christmas Cavalcade? I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

Thankyou!
Yes we did which I surprised at, we did have its if down time though, much more than we are used to!
All the characters seemed to make a fuss of both
Of them, tigger and mickey were especially good with teddy, tigger stood for ages while ted chewed his hand lol,
No we didn't get to meet Santa but the queue was always huge and the boys couldn't have stood there for that long. It's a shame but we did lots of other things.
Santa is in the village in the evening though ad his queue was always quite short.
We loved the Christmas cavalcade, we didn't get to see the main parade in full this time, just in bits but we did watch the christmas one and it's pretty cute and better than the train. x

We have Disney blues today, Jesse is abit poorly and keeps asking when we're going back to Disney. I said we have to wait now and he said 'yes wait til daddy gets home from work'
Iv already been pricing up another trip but the earliest will be next October and that looks unlikely!

 

[DLPdaft]

Great trip report, young children and characters, you can't beat it .
It must have been nice to all be there together in a big family group too.

 

[figaro2]

Great trip report, young children and characters, you can't beat it .
It must have been nice to all be there together in a big family group too.

It was! I haven't been for quite a while with my mum and sisters, last time was just me and DH! So totally different experience with the kids. Iv avoided characters the last few trips but it was all about them this time was the kids both loved them lol!

 

[Tink'sMum]

Aw lovely trip report, it all sounds great. Loved the photos of your cute boys too.

Why didn't you take the hire buggy back to the hotel with you each night instead of returning it/taking it out again the next day? Is there some sort of restriction on it when you get it for free with the AP?
I ask because as far as I know you can bring them back to the hotel if you show your easypass and have paid the deposit? (am asking for future reference!)

 

[figaro2]

Aw lovely trip report, it all sounds great. Loved the photos of your cute boys too.

Why didn't you take the hire buggy back to the hotel with you each night instead of returning it/taking it out again the next day? Is there some sort of restriction on it when you get it for free with the AP?
I ask because as far as I know you can bring them back to the hotel if you show your easypass and have paid the deposit? (am asking for future reference!)

Yeah you have to pay a 70 euro deposit! We did it with nicholas pram at the beginning of the week and they just shared the one to and from the park, as usually one of them wanted to walk! I don't think we could've fit two prams in the room either! It was bad enough with teddys pram and the travel cot lol! x

 

[figaro2]

This time last week we were in cafe mickey!!

Iv already been pricing up for next year! Doesn't look likely though