We did the Rock nRoller coaster (good loop inside in the dark) and then took a quiet look behind the scenes on the Back Street Lot tour. You travel through the costume department - they make 25,000 outfits a year there; and there's a museum with famous costumes from the films, like the Scarlett O'Hara dress which she makes from the green velvet curtains.
This is a funny costume.
There are false perspective streets of New York and San Fransisco which they occasionally use in the movies. Here's Richard, Jack and Ems in front of the New York backdrop. The whole set is about 12 feet deep.
Here is Jack wearing 'The Giant Hat of Cleverness':
We also went to the Star Wars ride (good) and the Muppet Show (funny) then as the thunder clouds gathered we headed home for lunch and a splash in the pool.
Dinner was brilliant - we'd booked into a Tappanyaki restaurant - where the chef cooks everything on a hot plate in front of a group of 10. We shared with two other families - the people on my right came from Arkansas and lived on a 100 acre ranch in the middle of nowhere with cattle and horses. I saw a picture of Mom on a rodeo horse - yeehah! She travels 35 miles each way to work or the shops. Her husband spoke to Jack about the rugby he had played while in the forces and asked if we knew a girl he had met from Rochester.
Richard and Ems spoke to a family from Georgia whose 15 year old son was trying out for a basketball team the next day. He was one of the shortest in his team at 6ft 2. And you should have seen his dad!
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