Avoiding the breakfast stampede and buying drinks in the expensive bar as we eventually enjoying the Wild West Show on EuroDisney's 2nd Anniversary
A cold and windy day again so that our breath condensed in clouds so that we had to warm up well again as much as our lack of forethought and packing allowed us. Up early to moderate the Hotel Cheyenne "Breakfast Stampede" and then to get some more French Francs for an expensive day ahead.
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I was getting 8.09FF to 8.11FF to the pound Sterling so that everything seemed to be expensive for us. Upon arriving at the park this morning, I went over to the windswept Festival Disney and paid over the money to confirm our seats for the evening. We then spent the day going on as many rides as the long queue's would allow us and avoiding too much to eat to be ready for our dinner show. They asked us to be there an hour early but did not let us in for some time and then kept us waiting in a long bar area hoping we would buy expensive drinks which we easily resisted.
Sometime outside in the cold therefore occupying ourselves but luckily there was one of the "rough-riders" practising in a nearby paddock which we watched huddled together. Eventually, we took our seats in section C2, colour yellow, which we were to learn was in the "yellow star ranch of Texas section" for the so-called "inter-ranch games" later. A good meal of barbecue beans and combined plate of ribs/chicken/sausage with potatoes/corn-on-the-cob was served with apple pie and ice cream to follow and we tried to eat this between the orchestrated cheer-leading of cowboys trying to whip up "inter-ranch" rivalry.
Our humour improved as we became less hungry and were served plenty of draught beer and we actually enjoyed the show. We saw cowboys, Indians, a cattle drive, the Deadwood Stage hold-up, buffalo hunting and sharp shooting all rather contrived but with clever effects. As well as "Buffalo Bill", we also had "Annie Oakley" and "Chief Sitting Bull" performing for us which was a triumph of time travel if you believed it.
The inter-ranch games were a bit contrived and trying, particularly when you were trying to eat, but the children enjoyed the mass banging of plates and spoons and waving of hats that we had been given. Back to the hotel at least warmed up and well fed; except for the girls of course who had refused to eat anything!