And just like that, we’re back in Paris!
Since my last post, we headed over to Royal Banquet at the Disneyland Hotel, took in the view of the gorgeous lobby chandelier, then headed to our dinner.
The results were mixed - the characters were great and we got lots of interaction with them (they each came around 2-3 times per table) but the difficulty actually getting food from the buffet was a nightmare. The cast members working were trying to navigate people standing in line to get food along with people being shown past the food tables to where they would be sitting, all with the characters trying to navigate it as well. It just wasn’t enough space for all of that.
As such, I never even got to try the hot food - the queue for it was always at least 20+ people long, and so I just stuck with the seafood, enjoying lobster, crab claws, and a few other things on offer, which were all fine but not particularly well executed. The lobster, for example, had clearly been boiled about 3x as long as necessary and was tough as a pencil eraser.
After that we headed back to the park to knock out the last three rides on our list, Pirates, Indiana Jones, and Phantom Manor and really enjoyed the French versions of all three, though IJ probably would have been better during the day so you could see all the statues.
Up next, we headed to our “reserved viewing area” for fireworks. We were literally dead on center of the castle. Only thing to note was just that we couldn’t see much of the drone show from that spot - would’ve needed to be further back for that.
And once the show was done, we got back to our room as quickly as possible but still didn’t hit the sack until closer to midnight - that 1 mile walk to/from the hotels is killer!
Still, that didn’t prevent us from being up again at 6:30am today, and since we were checking out today, packed up all our stuff and then (since we were Compass Club using Magical Express) just left our bags in the room when we went to breakfast. Easy-peasy.
We took a little more time breakfast than yesterday, just based on our experience being held at the gate and so we’re quite surprised when - at 7:40a we rolled up to security check (which we’d cleared no problem at 7:25a the previous day!) only to find it not yet open. They finally allowed us through at 7:45ish, and then we got held at the gate again until 7:55, when they let us all to queue up at tap.
Tap opened a few minutes late again around 8:02am, but this time, as we were doing the Studios Park today, tap signaled the unofficial start of the PowerWalking World Championships! Tap is the start, and Crush’s Coaster is the finish 
Thanks to our long legs we managed pretty well in the power walking and only waited a few minutes at Crush’s. Also - throwing this out there for any fellow Pooh sized guests - I’m 5’9” and a size 20 US, and I didn’t have any trouble with Crush’s Coaster at all! That seems to be the one most folks worry about in DLP and I didn’t even have to have the cast member help push the restraint or anything.
After we finished Crush’s, we also knocked out Ratatouille, ToT, and Web Slingers, which were the only four rides open during EMH. I did see they opened Cars Quatre Race Royale (or whatever it’s called) at about 8:55a, but otherwise that’s it. But, it took us the full hour to do those four rides, so that experience was fine by us.
And let me just say - the Paris Tower of Terror - omg it’s way scarier than the original! My stomach was a bit up and down from all the G forces for hours after! 
Once 9am rolled around, we knocked out Avengers Flight Force, then went back to Toy Story land and did Toy Soldier Parachutes, Slinky Dog Dash, and RC Racer. Also somewhere in there, I happened to see that the virtual queue for Marvel Heroic Experience was open, so nabbed a spot for that as well.
But then…it was about 10:30a, we’d finished all the rides we wanted to do except for Cars Road Trip (which hadn’t opened yet), our shows weren’t until the afternoon, and we were kind of out of stuff to do at that park? That new expansion will definitely be a good thing for them.
Anyhoo, we checked out the L’Hiver Gourmand stalls that were just opening and took some pics in Toy Story land, and then eventually found our way into Minnie’s Musical Moment (which was cute, but very clearly geared at the pre-school set!) before our virtual queue for Hero Training Academy came up.
And let me preface: as evidenced by my earlier post about Deadpool, we’re not huge Marvel people. We’ve probably seen about 1/3 of those movies, but it’s just not what gets me excited. But I figured if we could get a pic with Thor or Iron Man or Captain America - that’d still be cool. And it was, I suppose, but I didn’t even know who our super hero was supposed to be. I guess it was Shuri? (Female black panther?) anyhoo, we got our pic, but we’re sort of bummed it wasn’t a more recognizable one. To each their own!
After that, it was time for our lunch at Pym’s Kitchen, which after eating so many rich meals this trip, it was actually pretty nice to just down some French fries and a slice of the giant burger! We also had a window seat, and could see “The Wasp” walking around on the WEB building across from us. Thor and Loki also walked around the crowd at some point, and were immediately mobbed by kids.
After lunch, we had reserved seating for Mickey and the Magician so headed over and enjoyed that very cute show before heading back out to Cars land to finish off our final ride.
But at that point - we were both getting pretty tired and my feet had that familiar “dead stump” feeling, so we decided to skip sticking around for Onward Together and take the RER A back to Paris.
The Magical Express luggage transfer was smooth and easy, and we only had to wait a couple minutes for a train. I will say the train was a LOT busier going into Paris than going to DLP, so we did have to kind of muscle our way off once the right stop came up, but it just goes with the territory.
Now, we’ve just checked in to our next Paris hotel, and are super ready for a nap!
Would you all like me to continue posting what we do through Sunday, or now that the Disney stuff is over, should I just shut up?
Happt to oblige either way.
Also if anyone has any questions let me know, happy to help!