Day 4 Sunday 20th March
Oooh I was tempted to put the phone down on Mickey this morning

- perish the thought! But no, its Sunday, it will be another busy day in the parks. The Sun is shining too, even this early in the morning - at last

. We were in the park by just after 8am again, got a ride up Main St with the car -
We managed to ride Buzz, Peter Pan and Dumbo before the EMH rides started getting queues at around 8.45, and then we went for breakfast, this morning it was at the Plaza Gardens. I preferred the organisation of breakfast in the park at the Chalet au Marionette to be honest, we waited longer for juice/hot drinks at the Plaza Gardens, and there are no trays to carry your plates/bowls etc at the Plaza Gardens

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We were in the Studios by 9.50 this morning, again we went straight to TSPL, where there was a bigger crowd waiting today. Crush was already open, but the line was already 75 minutes and the park wasn't even officially open yet

! When we started going into TSPL, I witnessed a bit of completely unnecessary puschair-ramming near us, but we sidestepped all that and were on and off Parachute Drop within 20 minutes. By 10.30 there were queues for everything ie Cars 25 minutes, Flying Carpets 35 minutes, Crush 90 minutes etc etc so we did some souvenir shopping in both the Studios stores, arranging for everything to be sent to our hotel -
and the Oscar goes to ......
We did Cinemagique again (don't think I could ever get bored with this, but I did have to stop my DD completely spoiling the plot as we passed the front-side section of the audience

). We used a FP for Flying Carpets, then headed for the Village for a bit more shopping. The girls decided to treat themselves to a small Vinylmation each which they could decorate with stickers.
Now it was 1pm and time for our reservation at the Steakhouse Sunday brunch. I have to say, we all really loved this, I thought it was the best food I've ever had at DLP, and the glass of champagne on arrival for the adults is a very nice touch indeed

. I noticed where we were seated we were kind of out of the loop as far as the characters were concerned, but once I'd brought this to the attention of our head waitress (we had 3 waiting staff in our section) this was swiftly rectified, and the girls got some great one-to-one with all the characters -
This would be my favourite meal at DLP to linger over - I could just imagine being in here for the whole 3 hours of the Sunday brunch, relaxing and enjoying all that yummy food (I don't think I'd be fit for much afterwards though, apart from possibly being rolled back to my hotel bed for a snooze


). But with 2 character-hounds in tow, that wasn't happening, so we made it out of the Village and back to the Studios in time for Stars n Cars again, then we took a breather in the gazebos in Fantasia gardens. The girls played about in one while I enjoyed the lovely sunshine in another. It was so peaceful there, just a few steps from the park entrance, but barely a sound to be heard

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Another first now - 4pm,
Disneyland Hotel.
This was a great success, even though there were lots of people in the foyer, most were adults, and so when the characters came down the stairs and started dancing, there was lots of room for the little ones to dance with their favourites. Once the characters had spread out across the foyer, the girls got to meet them with no problems at all -