Friday - Hollywood Studios

In a change to the schedule due to my sickness last week, today was rearranged to do Hollywood Studios.  We had a small breakfast at the villa this morning before setting off.  We got to the park just after 10 and went staight to get fast passes for Toy Story Mania.  We were just too late, tickets ran out as we were queueing.  The normal walk on queue was showing 120 mins, we decided that was just too long.  Instead we went on over to the Backlot Tour.  Here they set up some volunteers to recreate a harbour attack scene (basically involves the volunteers being given waterproof clothes and then drenching them) then they send you on trams to view some of the working areas of the studios like the costume and scenery departments before you supposedly enter a set where they are filming with a tanker that explodes.

Then we found Mike and Sully and stopped for some photos.  They were really funny, Stephen and Choe were very wary of Sully, I think because of his size!

Muppet Vision 3d was next.  I'm not a muppet fan normally but this attraction always has me smiling with its humour and 3d effects.   As we came out of there we spotted Lightning McQueen and Mater doing photos so quickly joined the queue.

We stopped for lunch, Turkey toasted sandwich, burger or chicken strips (all with fries) before joining the queue for the "Lights, Motors, Action show.  This is an excellent show featuring various car scene chases and motorbikes.  Stewart loves this show and video'd the whole thing!

By now the temperature was rising and Mum was not feeling too well so we found her a shady spot to sit in while we waited for the parade.  This was much better than the parade they used to do here.  There was lots of singing and dancing and some great characters too including woody and jessie, sully and Mr Incredible as well as lots of dancers. (no mickey, minnie etc in this one).

 

The parade stopped right by us and some of the characters got off the floats and joined in the dancing right in front of us.  Great view.

When the show had finished we walked down to the Tower of Terror.   Keith, me, Sarah and Chloe were the only ones brave enough.  It was quite a short queue and the ride made us laugh.  Unfortunately Rock n Roller Coaster was not running today.

When we had finished Grandma and Grandad took the girls in to see the Beauty and the Beast show while the rest of us ended up in the Sounds Dangerous studios - this ended with me and Stew getting the giggles, it was so bad, we really didn't get it at all!  We all met up again

Our last ride of the day was The Great Movie Ride, which takes you back through scenes from movies over the years like Casablanca, Wizard of Oz, Alien, Indiana Jones and Wild West films.

Mum was still feeling a bit unwell and it was very hot so we decided to leave and drove up International Drive to the Sports Dominator shop cause Sarah and Stewart wanted to look at some NFL clothes.  Unfortunately they didn't have what they were looking for.  We also stopped for some painkillers as Mum, Sarah and Keith had headaches.

Dinner tonight was back to the Cheesecake Factory.  Dad was now feeling ill so he decided to stay in the car.  It was busy, we had a 20 min wait - they give you a pager so they can buzz you when your table is ready, so we had a quick look round the Mall next door before they paged us!

my tempura fish tacos

Steve chicken tender burgers

mum's pizza - she managed 3/4 of it ! 

Chloe had a kids cheese pizza, stew a burger, Keith had some Chicken tortillas and Sarah had the 4 cheese Pasta again with Chicken.

Back to the villa and the kids wew all playing DS games for a while before bed.  Mum, Dad, Keith and I sat on the patio, Stew as most nights disappeared up to his room.

Epcot again tomorrow to do the World Showcase if we can stand the heat - due to get a bit hotter for next couple of days!