Ware Bears
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Trip Report Day 3
Saturday dawned another hot and sunny day.
We decided to head to the Studios today and got there just after opening and took photos with Pluto and Donald.
Then we watched the Good Morning Studios parade only a few people were there to watch it and this made such a change for us!
We then made our way over to the Moteurs Action! Stunt Show Spectacular. We did quite enjoy this, however I think once will be enough and I dont think any of us will want to watch it again. Then we did Armageddon. This was good fun, although I think I was expecting it to be something more because of the big pre-show build-up. Then it was onto the Studio Tram Tour. This was excellent and I definitely want to do this again next time. Then onto Flying Carpets over Agrabah. I loved all the theming in the queueing area but do wish that on the ride they had the camels that spit at you like on the WDW version.
We took a break and had a portion of fries and a coke in Disney Studio 1.
Afterwards we watched the Lilo and Stitch Catch A Wave Party. This was excellent, especially when Pluto kept coming over and taking Francescas Pluto hat and wearing it himself!
Afterwards we had photos taken with Mickey outside his trailer, explored the shops and caught the bus back to our hotel to get refreshed before our evening meal which was booked at Inventions at the Disneyland Hotel for 6pm.
Wow!!! What a luxurious hotel! Quite a change from the Explorers!
The Inventions buffet was superb. We were so greedy that we went up again and again and again!!! We were the only ones in our section for quite a long time and we couldnt have asked for better character interaction! We were visited by Minnie, Perla, Suzy, Eeyore, Pluto, Tigger and Orville. They all made a fuss of us, pinching our food and making Francesca get up so that they could sit in her seat!
Then we started on the desserts food to die for!!! What more could one want?
Wonderful food with equally wonderful company and a marvellous view overlooking the castle!
After we reluctantly left, promising ourselves we would definitely return here next summer, we had a look in the Cafe Fantasia at the musical wallpaper. Wow!!!
Then we just had a browse through the hotel, taking in all the lovely tapestries, puppets etc in the reception. Then it was back into the Disneyland park and onto Dumbo, a 30 minute wait
but Francesca so wanted to do it and it was worth doing it in the dark to see how lovely the park looked lit up. We took some more photos of Francesca by Cinderellas coach as she was actually wearing her Cinderella dress and everyone then tried in vain to pull the sword from the stone!!! Fantasyland had emptied by now in readiness for Fantillusion and it felt really weird being there on our own. We had intended to make our way back to the hotel but as we reached the park exit we could see a few places at the top of the station so we went up the stairs just as Fantillusion was starting. We couldnt see the change to evil from there but that didnt matter because we had seen that the other night. It was nice to watch it from a higher perspective although I did prefer watching it from the Pooh seats the other time. Lots of people left after it ended so we decided to stay and watch Wishes again after all and moved to an even better position.
We couldnt hear the music as well as we did nearer to the castle but the fireworks looked even better from a distance!
Then there was the usual mad scram for the buses. When one bus arrived it parked across the road to drop some passengers off. Loads of people rushed over and virtually stormed on. The driver then ordered them all off until he had parked properly at the bus stop and they were all running across the road in front of him, literally dragging their kids along. Its a wonder there arent accidents here on a regular basis. We watched one couple and their son aged about eight who were so determined to get on a bus that even when the bus doors kept shutting on the poor boys face, his mother was still trying to push him on and get on behind him.
Need I say, our behaviour is a little more refined
and we eventually got to bed about 1pm, tired but extremely happy!!! 
Saturday dawned another hot and sunny day.
We decided to head to the Studios today and got there just after opening and took photos with Pluto and Donald.
Then we watched the Good Morning Studios parade only a few people were there to watch it and this made such a change for us!
We then made our way over to the Moteurs Action! Stunt Show Spectacular. We did quite enjoy this, however I think once will be enough and I dont think any of us will want to watch it again. Then we did Armageddon. This was good fun, although I think I was expecting it to be something more because of the big pre-show build-up. Then it was onto the Studio Tram Tour. This was excellent and I definitely want to do this again next time. Then onto Flying Carpets over Agrabah. I loved all the theming in the queueing area but do wish that on the ride they had the camels that spit at you like on the WDW version.
We took a break and had a portion of fries and a coke in Disney Studio 1.
Afterwards we watched the Lilo and Stitch Catch A Wave Party. This was excellent, especially when Pluto kept coming over and taking Francescas Pluto hat and wearing it himself!
Afterwards we had photos taken with Mickey outside his trailer, explored the shops and caught the bus back to our hotel to get refreshed before our evening meal which was booked at Inventions at the Disneyland Hotel for 6pm.
Wow!!! What a luxurious hotel! Quite a change from the Explorers!
The Inventions buffet was superb. We were so greedy that we went up again and again and again!!! We were the only ones in our section for quite a long time and we couldnt have asked for better character interaction! We were visited by Minnie, Perla, Suzy, Eeyore, Pluto, Tigger and Orville. They all made a fuss of us, pinching our food and making Francesca get up so that they could sit in her seat!
Then we started on the desserts food to die for!!! What more could one want?
Wonderful food with equally wonderful company and a marvellous view overlooking the castle!
After we reluctantly left, promising ourselves we would definitely return here next summer, we had a look in the Cafe Fantasia at the musical wallpaper. Wow!!!
Then we just had a browse through the hotel, taking in all the lovely tapestries, puppets etc in the reception. Then it was back into the Disneyland park and onto Dumbo, a 30 minute wait
but Francesca so wanted to do it and it was worth doing it in the dark to see how lovely the park looked lit up. We took some more photos of Francesca by Cinderellas coach as she was actually wearing her Cinderella dress and everyone then tried in vain to pull the sword from the stone!!! Fantasyland had emptied by now in readiness for Fantillusion and it felt really weird being there on our own. We had intended to make our way back to the hotel but as we reached the park exit we could see a few places at the top of the station so we went up the stairs just as Fantillusion was starting. We couldnt see the change to evil from there but that didnt matter because we had seen that the other night. It was nice to watch it from a higher perspective although I did prefer watching it from the Pooh seats the other time. Lots of people left after it ended so we decided to stay and watch Wishes again after all and moved to an even better position.We couldnt hear the music as well as we did nearer to the castle but the fireworks looked even better from a distance!
Then there was the usual mad scram for the buses. When one bus arrived it parked across the road to drop some passengers off. Loads of people rushed over and virtually stormed on. The driver then ordered them all off until he had parked properly at the bus stop and they were all running across the road in front of him, literally dragging their kids along. Its a wonder there arent accidents here on a regular basis. We watched one couple and their son aged about eight who were so determined to get on a bus that even when the bus doors kept shutting on the poor boys face, his mother was still trying to push him on and get on behind him.
Need I say, our behaviour is a little more refined
and we eventually got to bed about 1pm, tired but extremely happy!!! 
Just the right kind of bedtime reading!!.....Or is that early on Sunday morning?
