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Our last theme park day!

The famous Mickey Sorcerer Hat, which isn't actually a ride, but rather a shop. You see this as you walk in the park and look straight ahead.

Based on Aerosmith, this rollercoaster ride is based on trying to get to their concert as quickly as possible so you can use your backstage pass.

A closer look at the entrance to the ride.

A shot of some of the architecture in the park.

Great retro cab.

Even their mock billboards are themed to the era of the architecture.

More architecture.

Based on the fairytale, this stage show takes you through the classic story in 30 minutes.

Extremely well done, this ride takes you up in an elevator, and then changes direction at random. So you could go up, then up again, and up again, and then down. At times the doors even open and you look out over the park - mad! Hayden did this, and as you may have guessed, Célia didn't.

Shots of the inside leading up to the ride.

Looks dingy.

A better shot.

Entrance to the Star Wars ride - to go in you walk underneath the AT-AT. Or, if you fancy cooling down just stand in front of him and wait until he shoots water down at random.

Entrance to the Muppet 3-D show, with off course the queen of drama - Miss Piggy.

Funny little notice board at the entrance to the show.

Yes, it's the queen again - on her own billboard above a building. In case you can't ready the bottom it says 'Paid for by the fund to keep Miss Piggy happy' - too funny!

Hayden with his little hero - Buzz.

And saying good bye....

Entrance to the pizza restaurant based on the restaurant in the movie - Pizza Planet.

Taken from a show that originated in Disneyland Paris, this show is designed to show off cars, bikes and jet skis performing stunts. Great show, but the worth was an absolute nightmare in the blazing sun.

Look, it's Herbie!

The afternoon parade, headed up by the newest Disney character - Chicken Little.

Jessie from Toy Story.

With the rest of the crowd from Toy Story.

Followed by Mary Poppins.

Ooohhh, it's Sweetums!

There's the queen herself - Miss Piggy!

Little R2-D2!

Followed by Luke Skywalker. Cool car.

Darth Vader - the evil one....

Mushu and the cast from Mulan.

Hey, it's Mike Wazowski and Kitty from Monsters Inc! Doesn't Kitty look just like Hayden - lovely, big and cuddly.....

We think this was the best car in the parade - ridden by Aladdin.

Ah, all the baddies on foot.

We can't remember the movie this baddie is from, but doesn't he look cool in his flash car.

Lilo and Stitch in their surfer car. Stitch got super excited because there was a little boy standing near us with little Stitch claws on his hands and a Stitch hat.

Ariel from the Little Mermaid with her underwater friends.

The Power Rangers - cool car, but we couldn't get too excited about them.

The Bear in the big blue House.

Yay - it's Dopey! After struggling to see him for so long we took a few shots of him, and even both got to shake his hand.

Lovely Dopey getting close to us.

And looking fascinated by the little boy with the Stitch claws.

Chip 'n Dale with Alice in Wonderland and Pinocchio. Spot the Stitch claw again.

And lastly, the classics.

It starts off like the Indiana Jones movie, with the giant concrete ball and Indiana running, but proceeds to show you a behind the scenes how-to of some of the action scenes.

The guy playing Indiana Jones here was the stunt double for Harrison Ford in the actual movies.

A recreation of a market scene using members from the audience. On the right had side, in the bright pink top, was the body double for Karen Allen in the movies.

In the show they replicate a scene with Indiana trying to steal this plane and the German bodyguard ending up in the rotor - luckily we weren't eating at the time!

Taking you on a tour of the backlot, this tour lets you see some of the behind-the-scenes workings of the park, which is a working studio. It begins with members of the public being asked to take part in scene, with this poor guy getting absolutely soaked.

The famous Mickey water tower - which is actually empty...

The real Herbie, looking rather beat up.

Police car from the Dick Tracy movie.

Bikes from the Indiana Jones movie.

Walt Disney's private plane, now lying in rest here.

As part of the tour you get taken onto this rickety little bridge which wobbles so you think you're going to fall over. The setting is supposed to make you think you're watching a movie being made, and as you sit there watching the truck catch fire and feel the heat you could be fulled into thinking you are. This is followed by huge gushing water coming down from the top to put out the fire.

Something on the tour, we're not sure what. Hey, call us Japanese tourists - we were certainly behaving like ones!

Spaceship from Flight of the Navigator movie.

From Star Wars.

Sub from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zassou movie.

Shot of one of the park's streets made to look like New York, taken from the tour bus.

Items on loan from the US Film Institute - these from the Batman movies.

Items from Reign of Fire.

Pirates of the Caribbean.

Hayden with a Storm Trooper.

And with Darth.

One of the apes from Planet of the Apes.

Hayden with movie Mickey.

The New York street again, this time at night and from the opposite side - looking down at the Lights, Motor, Action showground at the end below the globe. These lights are put up as Christmas nears, and were nowhere near finished yet - we seem to remember them saying they put up something like 40 million lights!

Shots from some of the interesting and quirky doors around the park. This one for the Glamour Salon dentist, containing offices for 'C. Howie Pullum', 'Ruth Canal' and 'Les Payne'.

Another quirky door. This one for 'Ewell M. Pressem', 'Singer B. Flat' and 'Bill Moore'.

The main street of the park by night.

Mickey starts the show, which is based on Mickey's dream of good things which then turns into a nightmare.

The most amazing thing about this show is that once it gets going huge sprays of water get spurted up, and then these images get projected onto the water!

More water images.

Ah, the Brits have arrived.

And then the princesses arrive on boats.

Magic Mirror projected onto water.

Big bad snake which chases Mickey around the stage.

The dragon.

Who then breathes fire and lights up the water.

But then Mickey comes back and starts putting out the fire.

Finally, the magic boat comes along with the characters.

Look - there's Dopey!

With the grand finale - the fireworks.

And then magic Mickey appears wearing his sorcerer hat.

A few last shots of the park.

We started the day by going on an airboat ride around Boggy Creek. It seemed like a good idea, but after an hour's drive to get there and a boat driver who fancied himself a bit of a racer we weren't so sure. This was the only shot worth taking, these bald eagles.

After the boat ride we headed over to Hayden's dad and stepmom's house to spend the rest of the day with them. Here they are with little Macy.

Brian pretending to be little. Either that or he's desperate for the loo!

It must have taken about 20 minutes to figure out how to set up this shot on the camera.

The end.....