Day Three
Before I begin, I forgot to post this photo DH took from the Queen of Hearts castle in the labyrinth. Our camera, while nothing fancy, has this nice panoramic feature where you take 3 photos and it automatically splices it together. We managed to get some great photos this trip with it so I thought I'd share this one - hope it works!
This morning we were up a little later as it was a special day - our VIP Fastpass day due to being lucky enough to become a Shareholder in time to be eligible for the offer
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We went to breakfast and Mickey & Minnie were at the photo point. DD2 squealed with delight as she had been desperate to see the Mouse as she adores him! We queued to have their photos taken when DH went into breakfast and found us a table. Today we were lucky not to be redirected to the conference room and ended up in the rotunda of California Grill which is lovely (sorry the photo is blurry!). I messed up a bit and realised I had left something in the room, in addition the camera needed charging, so I headed back while the others had breakfast. I then arrived back and had a bite to eat.
We were at Salon Mickey to get our VIP FP for 9.30 am but it took absolutely ages to sort out - I'm not sure what the issue was! DH got fed up so took the girls into the Park while I waited - it was 10.10 am before I left SM
. I ran to catch up with them at Peter Pan - our plan had been to ride this first - but to my disappointment they wouldn't let us on with our FP until 10.30 am!!
Not to worry, we'd come back! We had a quick ride on the teacups which is a fave of mine then it was PP time
. As we could, we FP on it twice. We decided that as we were near by and the queue wasn't huge, that we would do Snow White which was fine, although DD2 didn't know what to make of it as it can be a bit dark.
We then headed to our favourite family ride - BTM and rode it 3 times in a row
. We had an early lunch booked at Cowboy Cookout BBQ today so didn't want to stray too far. I suggested doing the Jungle Book meet in Adventureland which only had a small queue. Baloo was almost finished as we arrived and then we saw Timon & Rafiki come which was brilliant as they were quite amusing
. We did the obligatory photos/autos and headed to CBCO which the girls had no idea about. Up to this point DD1 had been saying how disappointed she was that we hadn't met many characters - little did she know that was about to change
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We arrived for our reservation at 11.50 am and there were already a few people in CBCO. I have to say we really enjoyed this meal although it did take about 30 minutes to order the food. It is counter service but the way it works is you queue at a cashpoint to give your order, pay and they give you a receipt. You then queue at the food service counter where staff pick your order and put it on a tray for you. When we arrived only one poor man was on the cashpoint so it took forever! As I queued for so long while DH stayed at the table with the girls, I did miss out on most of their interaction with the characters which was a shame, a few did come around twice though, during our meal which was nice.
Most importantly - the characters: we met Woody who was amazing with the children - playing hide & seek and dancing etc., Pluto - who was also great, Goofy - again funny and plenty of time for everyone and Donald & Daisy Duck who were nice. Daisy in particular seemed to take a shine to my girls and spent ages with them - I think she came to our table 3 times
. The band also played on and off which was nice.
The food was good - warm and lots of it, it's not a la carte obviously but really was nice. I had the chilli to start, and ribs & wedges - the ribs were amazing, lots of meat and a nice sauce. DH had chilli and the angus burger and the girls had the children's cheeseburger with wedges. DH and I had the magnums for pudding - yum! And the girls had the strawberry yoghurt drink things which they both enjoyed
. DH and I didn't eat much of the chilli but only because we were too full and wanted to eat our mains! The girls had orange juice with their meal and we had a soft drink each. I'll put photos on review thread
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The total was 79 euros as I forgot to hand over my Dream AP!!
DH and I both thought this meal was one of the best character meals we had and good value for money.
After lunch we headed to the Studios to do some more fastpassing! We did Flying Carpets twice - the girls really liked this ride, despite the fact there really isn't much to it! We then decided to try Tower of Terror - silly me thought the girls might be OK on it as they seemed to be braving BTM so much. Needless to say both were scared and didn't enjoy it at all so it was written off for the rest of the trip - at least we gave it a go! Waiting here on ToT....
We then queued for 15 mins for Slinky Dog while over there as we hadn't yet been in the TSPL as it wasn't built on our last trip - it's a very clever place! The effects of a large lunch and the walking made us tired so we headed back for a nap as we were watching Dreams tonight
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After our rest we headed back to BTM again to abuse the VIP FP. We rode it another 3 times (so 6 times in one day - my girls are amazing at 4 & 7!!), then Peter Pan once. We then headed to Star Tours which DD1 was a bit apprehensive about but both girls loved it - it's now another favourite
. While over that way we did Buzz twice. We were making good use of that FP!
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