This city wants you to wake up late, or more correctly, it wants you to end the night before in a state of delusion about your control of tomorrow's dawn. We complied.
We were however out the door by a respectful 9:15, into the Patisserie around the corner before hopping the metro for Disneyland. Again if it wasn't for Gab we'd be half way to Normandy on my watch, but she had us all under control and on our way in a flash. Ratatouille is only three weeks old, so it's fastpasses are selling out fast, we arrived half an hour after the gates opened and the day's fastpasses were already completely gone. We're such indulgent parents that even the 70 minute queue time didn't stop us, it should have. I now know that they suffered a number of tech issues throughout the morning that meant we actually waited just over 2 hours before we go to board the new wunderkind. And it broke down 2 minutes later. The guy that queued for so long wanted to rant, the geek was a little excited to explore the ride in under the bright debug fluros as we were ushered to the exit. 
So firstly these are autonomous drone carts that you sit in, not on any tracks or anything, they drive up to the bays pick you up, the take off and drive you around the exhibition, clever! The carts have hydraulics to tilt you back and forth in sync with the movie too. The layout of the ride is essentially that your cart drives up to a movie screen, perhaps uses those hydraulics to bounce you around in sync with the movie you're watching, the drives you off to the next one. The whole thing takes some impressive choreography with video's being played back on the screen stretching in reality to match your changing perspective as you leave to visit another screen. There in lies the issue for the breakdown I had, if one cart packs it in, the whole sequence is busted and 80ish people have to abandon ship. Happily all that queuing didn't go to waste, they gave us free anytime fastpasses for the rest of the day.
All that queueing took it's toll on Gab and I. After a ride on the Aladdin Magic Carpet ride, the girls went shopping and Max and I headed to King Ludwig's Castle for some Weiss. Not for long though, out next appointment was with the Princesses for Lunch. Booked out two months in advance, Gab turned on the charm to get us a table in the corner. Book kids had a ball, though one much more than the other :)
Gab times the lunch perfectly so by the time we came out lots of people has started to queue for the afternoon parade. We made the most of it first to Small World with a 10 minute wait, then to the Toy Story shooter attraction where I scored my highest score yet - just over 168k! Emerson failed to get into Space Mountain again, so the kids and I headed for Autopia just before the parade ended. 
I teased the hell out of Emerson pretending that Star Tours was all about really flying into space, though she didn't buy it, she was convinced Chewy was going to come sit next to us on the ride, just like on the instructional video. Gab did some more shopping while the kids and I did the tea cups before heading back to Walt Disney Studios to use that Fastpass.
Straight on to Ratatouille this time, Champagne cork is the best bit, though Max thought running under the AGA was pretty hot, boom boom. Best bit about being here so late is they start to shew people away, the Crush's Coaster wait time was listed as 70 mins, we queued for 15 tops, they just wanted to scare people away so that come 9pm they could shut down on time. Either way we had a great ride!
Back to King Ludwig's for a Weiss while the girls shopped we ended up doing dinner there to. Gab says you can't get enough Disney magic and I mostly agree, though after two days with Paris beckoning on the other side I'm hoping we're done for this trip.