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Moving on with the current of the years.
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Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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Wow, Cheryl, you managed to take a lot of awesome photos of that show! When we went to see it, we sat way in the back so I only have a few nice pics. I thought the same about Mickey and Minnie's outfits and was glad that they changed into their beautiful holiday wear midway through the show!
I just caught up on your whole TR. I was so excited to read about Disney in Paris. My dream would be to be able to go to all of the Disneys all over the world. (We'll see if that can ever happen )
First of all...those trains are too cool!! It's like a subway for cars. Neat!
The Disney hotel is gorgeous. And it is right attached to the park??? But, WOW the cost is ridiculous!
I loved that Main Street looked a lot like WDW, but the theming of the other rides was so cool and different. I love the theming for POC.
The Crush Coaster looks like fun, sorry you didn't enjoy it as much. I agree about the teacups though...that is one I can't ride with my DH b/c he likes to spin and spin.
Great pictures of the show too. Cool to see the Country Bears not stuck to a stage!
Sorry the crowds were so high and that you were not able to get on any rides but the show looked wonderful. The pictures were fantastic...glad that Mickey and Minnie changed into their holiday gear. It looked like a very fun and entertaining show.
I just caught up on your whole TR. I was so excited to read about Disney in Paris. My dream would be to be able to go to all of the Disneys all over the world. (We'll see if that can ever happen )
That's the dream we're living right now. We've done them all apart from Tokyo and we'll be heading there in April. It's a great dream to have and the ones we've been to so far are all worth seeing.
Saturday 20 December – part six: I become Stitch’s girlfriend!
When we came out of there, there were more holiday celebrations with a whole Christmas village set up. Really it was just a whole long line for Santa Claus, although there were some Christmas stalls with things like hot win, a very European thing. They also had a Santa’s workshop set up, which they would let you take of photos of, without you having to wait for Santa.
We headed back to the Central Plaza in front of the castle and were just in time to catch Minnie’s Jolly Holidays, a cute and short Christmas show, featuring Minnie and Pinocchio, who is amazingly popular over here. We managed to get a front row spot, although yet again, we experienced kids pushing their way in front of us, with their parents nowhere in sight. That was bad enough, but they were bored after a couple of minutes and then left again. For goodness sake.
After that, we headed out of the park and took the train back to the hotel. We discussed whether we would be going to our reservation at the California Grill tonight and decided that we wouldn’t. I just felt that a) we were still quite full from lunch and b) I wasn’t sure that it could better lunch as a magical experience. Then there was some discussion about whether we would go back to the parks at all, but we decided to and it was the best decision we could’ve taken.
We walked back to the station again, lucked out and only waited a couple of minutes for the train and then we were off. When we got there, it was about 7.20 and we headed first for the Walt Disney Studios, as they were open until 9.00, whereas the Disneyland Park would be open until 10.00.
When we arrived, it was clear that the park was pretty quiet. There were very few people around. The Christmas decorations here looked much better after dark then they had earlier in the day.
We walked around taking lots of photos.
A silly photo op presents itself! The dance party they had, featuring the characters Another silly photo op You can always rely on him to do something different!
We soon realised that we had a decision to make, as the last Cinemagique that we wanted to see was at 8.00 and the next English version of Stitch Live was at 7.45. We decided to go for the latter, as it was new and the version in Hong Kong had been a lot of fun. Here, it shows you how many seats are left for the next show and there are 200 seats in total. Well, let’s just say that when we went in, there were 193 seats still left and only a few more people came in after is. It was therefore pretty inevitable that we would be picked on, especially as a Cast Member had come out earlier and we had been talking to her in the pre-show area.
Sure enough, Stitch asked me if I had a boyfriend and when I said yes, he asked Mark if he could jump up and down and, of course, he did. Then he asked if he could suddenly grow two extra arms. Well, there Mark had to concede. With Mark defeated, I became Stitch’s girlfriend (sorry Melissa! ) – how cool is that! It was a lot of fun and I came out of there, laughing away at the great time we had just had.
We watched the DJ party that was in full swing outside with Chip and Dale. They also had Stitch out, dancing with people and, boy he was getting down, just like the characters had the night before.
Great update! The dance party looks like a lot of fun. We missed that. We also didn't get a chance to see Minnie's Jolly Holiday show so I'm glad you took pictures
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the cost is ridiculous!
We've done them all apart from Tokyo and we'll be heading there in April. 
It's a great dream to have and the ones we've been to so far are all worth seeing. 
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