We were up a little later this morning (or at least I was) and had a breakfast of toast and doughnuts in our room before heading off to Disney's Hollywood Studios, or MGM as was.
Our first stop had to be collecting fast passes for the new Toy Story ride, and it seemed that everyone else in the park was doing the same thing. We arrived at about half past nine, and there was a fifteen minute wait just to collect the passes. While I waited, everyone else went over to the Jedi Academy to stake out a place near the front.
By the time I got there the show was just starting, and the selection of academy students had just begun. Despite our shouts and waves, unfortunately Jake didn't get picked, but we enjoyed watching the show anyway.
At least, we did until at the end Jake said that he was feeling sick, and so we beat a hasty retreat to the restrooms. After a comfort stop and a drink of water we decided that the best idea would be to go to the Indiana Jones stunt show as it was in a shady, undercover arena with lots of fans blowing cool air around. Unfortunately, this wasn't enough and Jake was a little "unwell" just before the show started. On reflection, we put it down to a combination of factors - tiredness, jet-lag, and standing in the heat to watch the Jedi Academy show. Still, he seemed to perk up and thoroughly enjoyed the Indiana Jones show.
Afterwards, there was some debate as to whether we should give up at least some of our fastpasses so that one of us could bring Jake back to the hotel. Jake seemed keen on coming "home" but equally didn't want to miss out on the Toy Story ride. In the end, a compromise was reached whereby I would go back to the car and fetch Jake's DS from the glove compartment so that he could play on it whilst waiting for our fastpass time slot to come around at 1pm.
When I returned from the car park, a table had been claimed at the dining area on Sunset Boulevard, and so Jake played Lego Batman on his DS whilst John and I queued for some inappropriately named "fast" food. Still, this meant that by the time we'd had lunch we were able to head over to the Toy Story ride. We were glad of the Fastpasses when we saw that the standby queue was showing a wait of 100 minutes, as our wait in the Faspass line was only about ten or so.
The ride is excellent, and got a thumbs up from all of us. Scores ranged from 30,000 to just over 100,000, and I will spare people's blushes and not say what order they came in!
Having enjoyed the ride, it was definitely time to come back to the hotel for a bit of a rest. Jake has perked up a bit, and is currently watching a bit of telly (or if we are lucky having a bit of a snooze) and fingers crossed he will be OK for the Halloween party tonight.
Nicky had a call from Nikki at DVC whilst we were at the Studios, and so we're popping over to Saratoga to see her in an hour or so (she is sending one of the DVC minibuses to pick us up).
Looking forward to the Halloween party, we just hope that a certain young man is feeling alright and has the stamina to enjoy it!