We have nothing for breakfast so we had to go down to the gift shop to see if we can get a couple of muffins and water to go. But they only have chips and crackers. Across the hall from the gift shop at the Redwood Bar and Lounge they do have muffins and water; only chocolate muffins, so that's breakfast.
We are ready for the park. Our room is too far away to go back and brush teeth as we are in the Sierra building. I think it's as far as you can get away from the lobby.
We are hopeful, so we are in shorts. Yesterday was very hot. We also have our rain coats and we need to put them on before leaving the hotel.
They now have a bag check and metal detectors to walk through before you enter Downtown Disney Area. We arrived at the Disney Studios at 10:05 in the rain; it opened at 10.
There are already 65 minutes of people standing in the Crush's Coaster line, so we are heading for the new ride, Ratatouille. Posted wait time is 35 min.
The Ratatouille ride is based on the movie with the same name. You are "rat-sized" and are in a restaurant. You get chased around and visually you are looking at large projection screens that are beautiful.
The cars are only made for 6 people (3 front, 3 back) and we get a front seat for our first ride.
We get right back in line to ride again and we choose the Single Rider line for our next ride. Two minute wait for Karen for the front seat and by chance Pat gets a seat right behind her in the same vehicle. Amazing ride.
Third ride is also from the single rider line and now there is a line for single riders, but with three people to a seat it moves pretty fast.
Lunch was at a food truck by Twilight Zone. There are 3 food trucks in this area.
Back from our tram tour and now it's time for our Fast Pass for Hollywood Tower of Terror. People talk all through the preshows here in Europe, both in here and in Phantom Manor.
Next we saw the Magic Mickey stage show that was new last year. It was a very good show that reminded me of a cruise line show. Mickey wants to be a Magician and Fairy Godmother, Rafiki, the Genie, and Elsa, inspire him with their magic.
Next we did Crush's Coaster, a fantastic and fun spinning coaster. There were 13 people in the single rider line and the sign said Single Rider 35 minutes on queue sign. The stand by line was 45 minutes. Took us about 20 minutes in the single rider line here.
The Art of Animation: Has a preshow with Roy Disney Jr; it's in French with English subtitles. Says animation began in France? Then a film about animation is about creating emotions. Same animation show from California Adventure with Mushu and a Disney animator. Learn to Draw is also here, but we did not do it. "Make a Zoetrope" is also here and so is a Meet and Greet with Moana.
Quatre Rouvs Rallye is a car version of Mater's Junkyard Roundup where you ride in cars, not tow trucks. It's a little kids ride, sized for kids, so the seat is short, not deep enough for adults.
Armageddon is a special effects show based on the movie. Not that good or interesting.
Dinner was pasta with red sauce for Karen and a croque monsieur for Pat and we got to eat in a pirate ship, kind of, with the Pirate's of the Caribbean Theme playing. The croque monsieur is a running joke for us, because our first food at Disneyland Paris 5 years ago was this sandwich. It "looked" great, but was undercooked and tasted like french toast that hadn't been cooked. We had avoided them for 5 years after that and just recently had one earlier on this trip. Today's was great.
After dinner we shopped the front gate area store inside the studio building waiting for English version of Stitch, next door at Stitch Live!
Stitch Live is like Turtle talk with Crush. The on screen Stitch talks to the kids sitting in the audience. The kids ask questions and Stitch responds live. Stitch isn't our favorite character because he's not very lovable and he talks funny.
Then we shopped back to the hotel through The Disney Village area. Our last stop was for an ice cream for the walk back.
We checked in with concierge at the hotel about taking the Disney Magical Express back to the airport. They tell us to just show up at one of the scheduled times and pay them and go to the airport.
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