Kissimmee, FL

We’re up early this morning to say goodbye to Cousin Suze and Scotty, who are going back to Harbour Island today. Hopefully we’ll catch up with Cousin Suze at Christmas. The remaining 4 of us head to Denny’s again for breakfast.

Marie is not coming with us today so we drop her off back at the hotel on our way back to DisneyWorld. This time to the MGM – Disney studios. I would have preferred to go to the Epcot Center because we had been to Universal Studios on Saturday – but I was outvoted.

There seems to be a million less people around today, being a weekday. Thank God! As it’s 35 degrees today and too many people would push me over the edge. Our day pans out as follows:

We start at Sounds Dangerous: A soundstage / show starring Drew Carey. This is pretty lame and not a good start to the day.

3D Muppetvision: This is a short Muppet movie in 3D, which was great fun, but didn’t come close to the Terminator 2 at Universal Studios.

Rocky & Bullwinkle @ MGM Studios

Star Tours: A Paris clone ride featuring the characters from Star Wars. Good to hear it in English, but not as good as I remembered it.

Me @ Star Tours Ride

Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular: A showing of how some of the stunts were done in the Indiana Jones trilogy. Interesting and fun.

Honey I Shrunk The Kids: A playground with oversized plants and Lego etc with plenty of water to cool us down.

Walked to Washington Square where Kim and Reggae met, and had photos with, Woody and Buzz Lightyear.

Regs & Kim Meet Woody & Buzz

Studio Back Lot Tour: This displayed how special effects work with water, before we jumped on a train which showed us old costumes, vehicles and homes that have been used in Disney productions.

Backstage Pass Tour: A tour through the sets and props of television shows. I am “volunteered” by the girls to be Al from Home Improvement. I have to perform a scene from the show with lines and actions. There was a pre-recorded Tim saying his lines and I had to read mine from a prompter. I had a blast (and a giggle). I wish I could have seen it on the screen. Hopefully the photos will turn out. The tour then continued through the set and costumes from 101 Dalmatians.

Me as Al on Home Improvement

Great Movie Ride: This takes you on a ride through scenes out of different movies as well as showing us highlights of the many great movies. Very memorable.

Magic Of Disney Animation: We are shown through the areas where production takes place on many different Disney cartoons. We also watch an artist draw Mickey, Minnie and the Hunchback Of Notre Dame. Really interesting.

Rock’n Rollercoaster: Once again there are some problems with the ride and I miss out on a roller coaster. It wasn’t meant to be.

Twilight Zone Tower Of Terror: Holy shit! This is a ride that lifts and drops you up to 13 floors. A real stomach turning, adrenaline pumping, last ride of the day.

Our last task is to sit and watch Fantasmic, which is a stage / light / laser show in the 9000 seat amphitheater. Our 9pm pm show is packed to the rafters, and apparently there is another at 11pm. The show is awesome and it’s a shame that my battery camera died half way through. Nonetheless a great way to finish the day.

On the way home we stopped for Taco Bell for a bite to eat and then to Kinko’s to check emails. It has been a big 3 days and I’m all theme-parked out.

A big day’s driving tomorrow as we head to both coasts of Florida and we say goodbye to Kim who is going back to Harbour Island in the morning.